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Mississippi player kicked off team after wearing pink cleats
Rivals via Yahoo ^ | 11/11/10 | Cameron Smith

Posted on 11/11/2010 12:47:19 PM PST by jerry557

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To: devane617

I wonder what pays more, IBM or high school football player?


21 posted on 11/11/2010 3:21:08 PM PST by babble-on
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To: babble-on

rules are rules

in life we may not always be able to make our own

he should have been kicked off the team


22 posted on 11/11/2010 3:59:15 PM PST by devane617 (NEVER feed your cats canned Tuna fish. Mercury poisoning.)
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To: Vendome

Ah, that pic is so ‘80s.

Anyway, I first saw the headline about the pink cleats on Yahoo. Is it just me, or do they have a disproportionate amount of stories about high school football on there?

I also noticed that Yahoo’s news headlines tend to have an extreme pro-DNC slant.


23 posted on 11/11/2010 4:48:35 PM PST by Strk321
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To: Boogieman; jerry557

>>> when you break the rules in order to make a principled stand on something you believe in, you should expect to have to face the consequences of the rules you broke. That makes the difference between an activist and a nincompoop.

So what RULE did he break? All I see in the story is the coach “ridiculed” the color pink in a prior game.

There obviously was no hard and fast “rule” about color of shoes. Coach was just being an ass. From the story, “He’s had five or six different colored shoes throughout his last two years of kicking for Mendenhall and when he got the pink shoes that’s when it became an issue. I think it is the pink shoes.”

When some mouth breather mouths off, does that now constitute an enforceable “rule” ? If the report the student has already been reinstated so quickly is correct, the school sees this too.

That makes the difference between an coach and a nincompoop.


24 posted on 11/11/2010 8:45:13 PM PST by tlb
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“So what RULE did he break?”

Don’t disobey the coach, maybe?


25 posted on 11/12/2010 8:01:10 AM PST by Boogieman
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