It couldn't be, could it? That the great man anticipated by 170 years these games and some of the negative reaction to them? Apparently so:
And if there must be people vowed to crush the harmless fancies and the love of innocent delights and gaieties, which are a part of human nature: as much a part of it as any other love or hope that is our common portion: let them, for me, stand openly revealed among the ribald and licentious...
And that's to say nothing of all the rest of us.