Com base no excerto abaixo, retirado de um texto que discute a obsessão por esportes e suas consequências, responda a questão.
There is no doubt that the sports industry in this country has grown massively over the last twenty years. This growth is linked with the development of cable and satellite television channels, many of which supply continual sports coverage to subscribers. These channels earn huge revenues not only from subscribers but also from advertisers who rush to advertise their goods and services when important sports events occur. The governing bodies of the various major sports in Britain, such as football, cricket, rugby and tennis, have cooperated with the television companies in signing agreements to allow the televising of their ‘products’. ________ the amazing hype that surrounds major, or even run-of-the-mill, sporting events stems from the pooled and vested interests of the owners of the media outlets and the groups who control the sports themselves. This continual high-intensity marketing of sport has led to a nation of obsessive watchers, most of whom are male.
_________, it is not only the people who watch most of their sport on television that are fanatics. The real committed fans are those who follow their team weak in, week out, as they play around the country. What, it could be asked, is wrong with that? Is this not a harmless pastime that causes no one any problems? Yes, it can be, but too often this obsession with ‘your team’ can take over from a proper concern with other important issues of employment, family, relationships and even money. We all probably know of some ‘sports nut’, to whom the success or failure of their chosen team or individual sporting god matters too much. Often, belonging to a sports’ club or unofficial grouping takes priority over relationships that would appear to be more important in an individual’s life, for example, a wife or children.
(SHIACK, Don. How to write essays. Oxford: How to Books, 2009, p. 52-54.)
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