Achilles wrote:Im going to ask a question thats been debated for years... should athletes be held to a higher moral standard than other humans?
balla45 wrote:Just my two cents.
Dunseith_Runners wrote: PARENTS should be their own childrens role models.
Hinsa wrote:Really, for the millions they are paid, would it kill 'em to try to use their position of influence in a positive way rather than a negative way?
Milkman wrote:But I guarantee that they have more free time, money, resources, connection and influence than the Target cashier.
Milkman wrote:The two points of my post
1)Athletes are in a better position to help.
2)This does not mean that they HAVE to help.
baseball wrote:Milkman wrote:The two points of my post
1)Athletes are in a better position to help.
2)This does not mean that they HAVE to help.
I agree with that 100%....i just want to add a few thoughts to this.
I believe the media builds up players to look up to and only seem to make the negatives public.
Warrick Dunn payed for houses for homeless families during his playing days, not sure if he still does (never got mentioned, yet TO gets interviewed doing sit ups in his driveway because he says hes not paid enough).
Shaq is trying to be a police officer in every city he lives in (articles make that out to be a publicity stunt, but the guy truely does care about making the community a better/safer place).
Kansas Jayhawks provide a free basketball camp to children with disabilites and the players are always quoted saying its the most fun they have all season, (that gets no press, but a punch thrown by a basketball player at a football player makes national news for a month).
Stephan Marbury had a contract with his shoe company saying they can't sell them for more then $15/pair while Jordans/LeBrons/Kobes/etc...are on the shelf for over a hundred, (he only makes press for being a complainer aobut playing time and a cancer in the locker room).
How many people knew dude Vitale paid for a little girls funeral who he never met before because her family lived in poverty? I believe it was Shaq, not positive, who did it for another girl a few weeks ago.
classB4ever wrote:The media has become too strong. They know they have us by the cajunas
digger wrote:classB4ever wrote:The media has become too strong. They know they have us by the cajunas
The media have my what? Whatever they have me by, I want them back. I'm just glad they don't have me by the cojones.
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