Hors d'oeuvres Suitable for the Super Bowl

I've never been a big sports fan, in part, because the ticket prices to attend virtually any professional sporting event is beyond ridiculous.  I remember attending my first professional baseball game with my Dad at Fenway Park when I was a kid.  That event remains one of the most memorable events I spent with my father when I was growing up.  But the prices to attend games like that are now simply out-of-reach for many families, and a lot has to do with the salaries for players, although the leagues can afford that with the costly TV broadcasting rights deals they sign for the games.  Its little wonder that minor league sports leagues of all varieties (including the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team, which has consistently enjoyed sold-out audiences more so than any of the major league games do in New York, including the New York Yankees or the New York Mets).There's also the not-so-little issue of the NFL still clinging to nonprofit status (exempting the NFL from paying Federal taxes) even though its CEO is better-paid than the CEOs for than many, many for-profit entities (the CEO for the NFL makes $30 million per year, more than both the CEOs for Coca Cola and Walmart earn).  What charitable function does the NFL serve?  Also, Major League Baseball (MLB) dropped its own nonprofit status over a decade ago when a similar complaint came up and has been paying taxes (and wasn't ruined as a result), so why the NFL won't do the right thing?  It's...
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