These numbers are from 2015, but give an accurate indication of where the priorities in state employee salaries go.
Notice those states without football fever have top people as presidents of educational institutions, healthcare experts, or top professors(new mexico).
There's no way we need these wastes of money in the future. We've been without these devices of division and distraction for quite some time, so I think it's safe to say that most people can do without them.
Nascar came back, but I'm hoping to kek that football never makes a return to our institutes of higher learning.