“...Richard Sherman is a warrior, high on adrenaline, violence and victory....”
Marcus Lutrell is a Warrior.
Sherman is a football player, playing a game.
There’s a difference.
The rest of your posting, I agree with completely.
If you have ever been around Special Forces types they operate in the same arena. What a bunch of jerks.
But I am fine with that. It is the job.
Go out on a football field and get your brains beaten in day after day. My body and my mind just couldn’t take the long term abuse.
The black and white is a bit much here. There are many shades and applications of warriorship, in daily life and in actual bullets warfare. Taking offense because the word warrior is applied to the attitude of a pro football player andrequiring it to be applied only to military SF is absurd.
Let me ask you something - is Marcus Lutrell's mother a warrior? What is the difference in warrior status between Marcus, an F-18 pilot, and someone who works in cryptonalysis decoding information and analyzing it, knowing that the lives of Marcus, the F-18 pilot, and Marcus's mother are utterly dependent on his not screwing up?
Waht about civilian air traffic controllers? What about people who refuse mob offers and graft in business? What about people in college who are offered inside tracks on jobs, money and even cheating, and refuse? What about nurses working below wage and staying with a small community because they are needed? Are they warriors?
Oh yeah, and BTW, that also includes people who grow up in Compton watching their friends die in gangs and drugs, and somehow fight for their own integrity enough to get into Stanford and go on to a higher degree, and, in addition to that, play pro ball at the level of making a game-winning play to get into the superbowl.
On behalf of the billions of wrriors in the world who do not get the specialized training, total support, acknowledgement, best equipment, optimized plans, and massive backup that SF warriors get - and I do acknowledge that even with all of that, they are true warriors - I suggest you reconsider your absolute definitions, just a little.
“...Richard Sherman is a warrior, high on adrenaline, violence and victory....”
Marcus Lutrell is a Warrior.
Sherman is a football player, playing a game
Yup. The word has been so overused and over-applied it’s become meaningless. Hell, a peewee football player manages to hang onto the ball for three seconds is granted warrior status.