The decade of the 1990s was the decade of technology. The sporting world and their stars made it into everyone’s home instantaneously and sports fans did not have to wait until the morning newspaper to see the results from the before or to read about their favoring sporting event, team or player. By the click of a mouse and with high-speed technology, the sporting news made it into fans home almost as fast as it happened. Fans lighted their homes with sports-themed lighting décor. In addition, television reached out to Americans 24 hours a day, seven days a week with the start and growth of cable television and 24 hour news, sports, and entertainment channels. American, as well, enjoyed a decade of relative peace and prosperity and the economy did skyrocket on the heels of dotcom and technology-related stocks. However, this did lead to some challenges in the sporting world.

With this economic spur, athletes began wanting more. They were able to move more freely amongst teams who would pay them the most money and a team’s success was often judged on how much money the owners spent to get the best players than on the player’s themselves. Fans began rooting for the uniform rather than the athletes themselves since athletes switched teams in a blink of an eye. » Read more: Sports in the 1990s – Era of Technology, Greed and Perseverance and Sports Lighting Decor