Australian's place too much emphasis on sport

Hello once again. For the second round of this debate I will be looking at media's excessive coverage of sport and the branding of sport players. However, before I begin I would like to present some rebuttal. Firstly my opponent has asked "Australia puts too much emphasis on sport, compared to which other countries?" In reply, the topic of this debate is that "Australians place too much emphasis on sport" not Australia but in fact Australians, the citizens. In addition, we are debating that sport is over emphasized by Australians IN Australia. Please try to remain on topic as best as you can. I was merely pointing out the Melbourne Cup compared to other major sporting events to prove a point. Other countries in this debate do not have any relevance past this point. Secondly the Melbourne Cup is not advertised as being "the race that stops a nation", it is the race that stops the nation. Citizens all over the country stop work to watch this race, which is essentially some horses running around a track. I being in high school know that when that race was being broadcasted my teacher wheeled in the television to watch the race. Workers all stop and watch it. It IS the race that stops the nation. Continuing on I will now begin with my main arguments for this round. To understand the media's excessive coverage of sport, one only has to look to the popular free to air television channels. For example, Channel seven, a major culprit in this issue, Channel Nine and Ten. Some of these free to air channel's shows, such as "The Footy Show" and "Wide World of Sports" span from between two to even seven hours at a time. This sparks the question "when is someone really going to watch seven or more hours of sport in one day?" and "when does too much sport become too much?" I, vouching for Pro, say it has already gone too far. In retrospect this is excluding the new free to air channel, One HD featuring 24/7 sport. On a weekly schedule, games nights are on the weekends, Monday to Tuesday has reporters and commentators looking at the weekend games and commenting, analyzing and reviewing, while Wednesday up to the next game, is networks recirculating line-up reports and the injuries of each team. All this is for one reason. Money. Channel Seven, seeing as they have the broadcasting rights to the A.F.L are just one of a few networks that are guilty of this. Keeping all this football information circulating in the system keeps the football fever coming back to the general population. Thus inducing more people to watch the Friday night football, meaning more profit. Now any person should be able to realize just how immense the media's coverage of sport is and should now understand why Australians place too much emphasis on sport. Day in-day out, we see our favorite football stars-Buddy Franklin and Chris Judd to name a few, have their names in borders and titles across the TV networks. Each and every football player that features in a sport report highlight, is branded a superstar, a god, a living legend, the list goes on and for what reason? How can football players in their right mind take these new found titles into their stride, when essentially all they are doing is running around an oval shaped grass field chasing a red ball? Compare these so called legendary or superstar players to the real legends and life savers out there, they are nothing. When I say the real legends I'm talking about the people who actually save lives and contribute to the betterment of humanity. People like Professor Patrick McGorry and Doctor Fiona Wood who don't receive the credit they should. Professor Patrick McGorry is in fact the Executive director of Orygen Youth Health organization which works to prevent mental illnesses in young children. While Doctor Fiona Wood, being the pioneer of a new spray on skin technique, works to help serious burn victims recover and return to the normal life they had before their tragic incident. These two people, possibly saving dozens of lives in a year alone deserve the title of living legends, life savers, superstars and more. Not the average football player. In conclusion, I hope now that you can see that Australians place too much emphasis on sport for the reasons that it is circulated and broadcasted on national television to a point at which it has become ridiculous and because so called sporting heroes receive more recognition than the Doctors and Professors that are actually making a difference. "Let's contort the emphasis on sport"