Bengals

Coaches and players love to talk about how playing the game of football teaches important lessons of teamwork, sportsmanship, discipline and so forth. That may be true for some, but obviously not true for all. Now the NFL, the parent body, is under scrutiny for cheating, for mishandling of player behavior and for failing to pay full attention to player injuries.

But what have been lessons taught to and by fans? NFL games have become rowdy, drunken events which discourage the family experience (current tagline: "Football is family.") Aggressive fan behavior and foul language are becoming the norm.