Posted on 04/28/2016 6:30:04 PM PDT by boycott
Laremy Tunsil's draft night will go down in infamy.
Minutes before the draft began, a video was posted to Tunsil's Twitter account. It showed Tunsil in a gas mask smoking something, just before he removed the mask to reveal his face.
The tweet was quickly taken down and Tunsil temporarily deleted his account, but attentive eyes quickly posted it to Twitter and YouTube. Tunsil's agent later told Ian Rapaport of NFL Network that his client's account had been hacked, but that it was his client in the clip. Rapoport also reported that the agent was calling teams to reassure them that they need not worry about his client's behavior.
Tunsil was discussed to be the first pick in the draft as recently as a few weeks ago, prior to trades with the first two picks. It turns out he wasn't even one of the first two offensive linemen selected at the Baltimore Ravens took Notre Dame's Ronnie Stanley at No. 6. The Titans than took Michigan State's Jack Conklin after trading up to the No. 8 selection.
According to NFL Network's Aditi Kinkhabwala, the Ravens saw the video — and it had an effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
ditto
I remember Matt Leinart practically throwing a temper tantrum because was fell all the way to the tenth overall pick, behind Vince Young.
We are raising the most-narcissistic generation in world history. I probably have a couple hundred pictures of my kids when they were growing up. Nowadays, parents take a couple hundred of pictures a month (my estimate). And the byword of this generation is what? “Selfie.” Does not bode well for the human race.
Manziel saw the video and said, “Man, I gotta try me some of that!”
— Johnny Jailbird
So he’s a drug addict? Well he’ll fit right in won’t he?
Things that screw up your life
His family. Not saying he’s not guilty per se. Money and success...
They may be of age but these are still kids. Their brains aren’t finished maturing. Moreover there is little in their lives that challenge them to be better. They are not the Greatest Generation by a ling shot
Dang, no water in that bong either. Hard core hit man....
There are many, many athletes who are role models, who strive and live for excellence. He may be an exception, but for you to celebrate that only shows your own failures.
Damn fools, indeed.
“They may be of age but these are still kids.”
No, they really aren’t. We just make excuses for them.
“Their brains aren’t finished maturing.”
That doesn’t mean they’re kids. That means their “brains aren’t finished maturing.”
“Moreover there is little in their lives that challenge them to be better.”
And that’s the point. At age 18 my father was killing Nazis in Europe. We might call him a kid looking back, but he was most definitely a man and a man of his generation. Those who raise they’re children well can expect them to grow up to be mature adults much earlier than their peers.
We have become a society of perpetual adolescents raising other perpetual adolescents. You can see this in almost everything nowadays:
“A little over a week after the conclusion of the first half of the last “Mad Men” season, the journalist and critic Ruth Graham published a polemical essay in Slate lamenting the popularity of young-adult fiction among fully adult readers. Noting that nearly a third of Y.A. books were purchased by readers ages 30 to 44 (most of them presumably without teenage children of their own), Graham insisted that such grown-ups “should feel embarrassed about reading literature for children.” Instead, these readers were furious. The sentiment on Twitter could be summarized as “Don’t tell me what to do!” as if Graham were a bossy, uncomprehending parent warning the kids away from sugary snacks toward more nutritious, chewier stuff.” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/the-death-of-adulthood-in-american-culture.html?_r=0
Graham’s original article: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/06/against_ya_adults_should_be_embarrassed_to_read_children_s_books.html
Diana West’s book is worth a read: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Grown-Up-Americas-Development-Civilization/dp/0312340494.
Whoever is doing this just hacked his Instagram account and posted pictures of screenshots of conversations where money was exchanged while in college.
NCAA violations...
If you have raised children you know that they ain’t grown at 18.
Send him back to where ever he came from. Enough of this crap going around in professional sports.
I think people are maturing and aging later now than they used to. When I think of my dad and his generation, married, starting families, having jobs and responsibilities at age 21 and compare that to a 21 year old today? That’s a kid!
These super athletes, those who are under serious consideration for professional sports leagues, have - trying to say this gracefully - had their bottoms coddled their entire cognizant lives. Too many have never been given the opportunity to mature. Most don’t have dads! All of a sudden they’re making mega-bucks. Anything and everything they have an urge for is theirs. They’ve never learned restraint or self-discipline. And for most, it’s all over by the time they’re 30.
I wonder what else is going to be leaked tonight.
http://thebiglead.com/2016/04/28/laremy-tunsil-instagram-hacked/
“If you have raised children you know that they ain’t grown at 18.”
I think you and I live in different worlds. The 18 year old “kids” in my world (and family) - and let’s recall that the MAN in the article is NOT 18; he’s 21 - are much more adult than those in your world (apparently). They don’t smoke, don’t do drugs, and don’t screw around (although they’re human and sometimes fall to temptation I am sure). At age 18 they ALL are either working full time or going to college or a trade school (and working part time or full time), serving in the military, or entering the religious life as a seminarian (generally we assume our girls who enter the religious life will do so only after they enter their early twenties because that is the usual pattern these days among people who live and think like we do).
We’re not perfect, but we’re at least adults by age 18. There’s no secret on how to accomplish this. We just do what our ancestors did. And this has a lot to do with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqIl7IB3n4g
I agree with. College kids today act like kids. Athletes too!
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