Look at the Jerry Springer show. Millions of people watch every day to see trashy people throwing punches at each other, but literally and figuratively. This is some sort of entertainment to us. The people in our society, adults and children, are watching this program and learning behaviors whether they realize it or not. Television has always been questioned as an appropriate role model for our youth, as we air programs like the Jerry Springer Show and many other violent shows and films.
Hockey is another influence on our youth today.
Not only are the games shown on television or a person can go to an actual game and see them beat each other up, are kids are watching these players and learning from them. Kids need role models and a great deal of them come from sports. We encourage our youth to participate in sport activities to keep them away from drugs and alcohol and getting into trouble. But hockey is not teaching them better morals than they would learn from the violence they encounter on the streets. Surveys of fans indicate that spectator enjoyment of games is related to the amount of violence in them.