Posted on 12/20/2023 5:09:19 AM PST by Red Badger
Former Super Bowl champion running back Derrick Ward was arrested in connection with the robberies of five businesses, including a gas station, in Southern California, authorities said.
Ward, 43, was a member of the New York Giants team that won the championship in 2007. He was arrested by police officers in North Hollywood, according to department officials.
Interestingly, Ward reportedly did not use a firearm during the alleged robberies, “but officers said the 6-foot, 230-pound Ward used force and fear to take money from businesses,” the New York Post reported.
Derrick Ward spent eight seasons as a running back in the NFL, and spent the 2007 season as a standout running back with the Super Bowl champion Giants
According to KTLA:
“Ward, who was born in Los Angeles and attended Valley View High School in Moreno Valley, played eight seasons in the NFL with the Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Houston Texas.
“He enjoyed his best season in the league one year after winning the Super Bowl when he rushed for 1,025 yards with the Giants.”
“He was a part of the Giants’ powerful backfield, which included Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw, which garnered the nickname, “Earth, Wind and Fire,'” the Post added.
“Ward missed the Super Bowl when the Giants faced the 18-0 Patriots in February 2008 after he suffered a fractured left fibula, which ended his season in Week 13.
“… Ward bounced back the next year and posted a career-high 1,023 rushing yards with an NFL-best 5.6 yards per attempt — and later signed a four-year, $17 million deal with the Buccaneers in 2009.”
I remember Dexter Manley’s testimony about how all the schools looked the other way, even though he was illiterate.
How anyone, no matter how dumb, can go through the millions he had.
None of this is news to anyone that has lived a while.
NBA players and lottery winners - still well over half are broke within a few years.
Most people born in the 50’s or 60’s will make over a million dollars in their 40 - 50 years working career. Doesn’t matter much what you do.
Most people born in the 90’s or 00’s will make $3 - 4 million over the course of their lives.
And yet about half will end up with little more than social security to enjoy in their twilight years.
And let’s not even get started about inflation and the government’s role in wage theft ...
You hold the person who makes the choice responsible.
Consequences are by far the best teacher and the best builder of good character.
I think they call that “tough love” . We have way too little of that and way to much of what I call “pathological compassion”.
That’s the type of compassion that ends up making things worse for both the giver and the receiver... as well as society as a whole.
We are living it.
Let me know where to start with the young generation.
>Exactly
“Let me know where to start with the young generation.”
Well the obvious place to start is with your own kids and grandkids and any other young person you have influence over.
To affect larger groups of people you’d have to seek some level of public position.
But we’re probably at a point where the only solution may be the return of the “Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
If you’re not familiar with it, here it is...
https://www.poetry.com/poem/33442/the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings
What do you think?
I am white so I can’t comment on this.
If you take all of the money away from the rich people and give it to the poor people, in a few years the rich people will be rich again, and the poor people will be poor again.
WEALTHY PEOPLE ARE WEALTHY AND POOR PEOPLE ARE POOR BOTH FOR THE SAME REASON.
BOTH GROUPS CONTINUOUSLY DO THAT WHICH MAINTAINS THEIR POSITION...........
That’s why corporations love the idea of Reparations for Slavery, they will ultimately get all that money.
Athletes have extra taxes to pay we don’t have.
They have to pay taxes in every jurisdiction they play in. Some even have special ‘fees’ just for the privilege of playing a sport in their town................
Look at post #26 for a sample.....................
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