Society has put way too much bravado on athletes. And with this bravado includes a self centeredness that has reached Biblical proportions from too many of those that their only purpose is to entertain like a monkey on a leash taking coins from kids.
The large amount of thugs in all the sports has destroyed their main function that keeps them fed: their role model status that society has handed them on a silver platter they don’t, as a whole, deserve. And as long as they can sit in the clouds and rake in their creature comforts, life for them is a big game of whatever they want to do, take what they want, and treat people as a lesser entity, is just enough to satisfy their ego. And again, all sports has them, too many.
And when a good guy comes along, he doesn’t get much ink as a whole and he spends his years making the lesser money because he doesn’t speed and hit people or things, he doesn’t do drugs, he doesn’t beat wives, he doesn’t cheat on his family, he doesn’t cheat or lie to the game/fans, and other things to make him the type of person that is worth meeting or rooting for. Or would even be willing to meet you or your family.
And the people that could be good, not only condone this behavioral flaw, but by saying nothing, encourage it. So who’s the fool, the fool or the fool who follows?
Someone from all these millionaires is going to have to lose money this year. And the only good point to it is that it will not cost the poor people the price of an overpriced ticket to see these overblown con people. Let them eat cake.
rwood
Well said. Tim Tebow comes immediately to mind.