"I am not a role model"
Charles Barkley came out with that line...I dunno...maybe 20 yars ago. It was ignorance at its best, and a case of sticking you head in the sand.
Yesterday, the new commish of the NFL, Roger Goodell, suspended Adam 'Pacman' Jones for a year and Chris Henry for 8 games for 'off the field' issues. Pacman got stopped by the cops, rolled down his window and sent up a billowing smoke signal of pot. The officer questioned him about it and he said he'd be clean by the next NFL drug test. Now there's brilliance. Then there was an incident in a strip club in Vegas with a gun, and there are plenty of others, yet his mother says it's not fair. Of course she does! That's what moms are for.
Whether these guys like it or not, when they put on that uniform, thay are role models. Kids all across this country want to be just like them, and they have a duty to be upstanding citizens...to be things kids should strive to be. It is part of the job. It's right behind "If you play offense, do everything in your power to get the ball over the goal line and, if you play defense, stop the other guys from doing that." in the job description. If that doesn't sit well with you, go dig ditches, or design software, but don't let them put your face on trading cards for kids.
Yesterday, the new commish of the NFL, Roger Goodell, suspended Adam 'Pacman' Jones for a year and Chris Henry for 8 games for 'off the field' issues. Pacman got stopped by the cops, rolled down his window and sent up a billowing smoke signal of pot. The officer questioned him about it and he said he'd be clean by the next NFL drug test. Now there's brilliance. Then there was an incident in a strip club in Vegas with a gun, and there are plenty of others, yet his mother says it's not fair. Of course she does! That's what moms are for.
Whether these guys like it or not, when they put on that uniform, thay are role models. Kids all across this country want to be just like them, and they have a duty to be upstanding citizens...to be things kids should strive to be. It is part of the job. It's right behind "If you play offense, do everything in your power to get the ball over the goal line and, if you play defense, stop the other guys from doing that." in the job description. If that doesn't sit well with you, go dig ditches, or design software, but don't let them put your face on trading cards for kids.
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John put this out here at 7:25 AM
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