Posted on 04/21/2017 8:53:09 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus
"One of Aaron Hernandez’s first official acts as a freshman football player for the Florida Gators was to sucker punch an employee at a Gainesville bar so hard that he ruptured the poor guy’s ear drum. Tim Tebow, who then was a sophomore quarterback, intervened in the dispute and tried to make everything better. Tebow, you see, was the public face of Urban Meyer’s national championship-winning program at UF. Aaron Hernandez was its secret and seedy underbelly. Hard to believe the Gators had one of the greatest role models in sports history and one of the most heinous criminals in sports history on the same team, at the same time. And not even all of Tebow’s goodness could eradicate the immense evil Hernandez harbored inside himself. ...
It should be noted that Hernandez was never criminally charged in the incident in which he ruptured the Gainesville bar employee’s eardrum, nor was he given any significant punishment by UF. In another more serious case in 2007, he was reportedly never even questioned by police or his head coach even though he was a suspect in Gainesville shooting that left two men wounded, including one who was shot in the back of the head. That case, categorized as an attempted homicide, remains unsolved. When the Gainesville Sun’s Pat Dooley asked Meyer, now the head coach at Ohio State, about the shooting incident four years ago, Meyer made it sound as if it was just a minor distraction. .... "
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“That rumor is BS. No one was touching him. And he hadn’t gotten into that stuff.”
Maybe, maybe not. We might never know the truth. There are those who were saying he was gay BEFORE prison:
http://www.metro.us/sports/boston/aaron-hernandez-gay-rumors-facebook-page-say-yes
One of the biggest cheaters in College Football history was Bear Bryant.
He did well in the playoffs I will give you that, but he was not a great quarterback by NFL standards.
His career stats over a 3 year career are:
17 td’s
9 ints
2422 yds
75.3 QB rating
Kurt Warner in my opinion was both a great role model and a great quarterback.
208 td’s
128 ints
32344 yds
93.7 QB rating
At least part of the problem is that it is easy to be a talented spoiled jerk when college basketball and football are so lucrative and popular. It’s much harder to get away with being a talented spoiled jerk when you are riding buses for the Richmond Flying Squirrels or the Altoona Curve.
Freegards
Amateurism isn’t communism. Amateurism is showing the ability to excel while understanding that what you’re excelling at is not the sole purpose of your life. The theory is that student athletes are supposed to be students first, they represent their schools in competition but the point is still for them to be scholars and come out of college as educated useful members of society. Mind and Body, well rounded people certainly SHOULD be an American value.
And it was a great theory until sports became fat cash in this country.
Wouldn’t put him high on the Character Totem Pole.
That’s my view exactly.
Here is a shocking postion: He is responsible for his own actions. His coaches and friends and teammates did not make him do anything.
There are too many people around willing to blame everyone else, except the person who is responsible.
And sure, the media protects Belichek. Take a look at deflategate, the filming scandal, the articles about his personal life. You will find that the media is full of articles that are not very protective.
People are jealous of the Pats, on and off the field. As a Boston sports fan it is a wonderful contrast the crap Yankees we had to endure in the 80s and 90s.
He had a winning record and took his team to the playoffs. Yep ....terrible
Basically, you just shot yourself in the foot. Those 12 year stats divided by 12 are what Tebow did. He didn’t start until Dec in his first year. He basically had the 2011 season from 5 games in. Denver was 1-4 when he came in. He took them to the playoffs. New York didn’t play him.
So more or less, Tebows stats are from one season as a rookie. And they basically equal Warners on an annual basis.
We need to revisit the days where people put together their own neighborhood games that they take part in first-hand. The current scene with its “mass-production football by proxy” is a monstrosity.
If he was so great why did he only start a total of 16 games?
His record was 9 and 7 over his career as a starter with 1 playoff win.
As I said in my original post I love what he stands for but he was a bust as a 1st round draft pick in the NFL, a story that is very common.
Warner played what like 11 season, signing as an undrafted free agent on top of everything else, and made 3 superbowl appearances with one win.
Tebow isn’t even close.
Urban Meyer is a snake. Yeah, all college coaches are “bad”, but he is worse than most. There is a reason he doesn’t last too long at any school.
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