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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.No, they aren't, if parents are actually parenting. No person whom you don't know closely should ever be held up as a role model for your children. Ever. The only thing that a child should emulate about an athlete is how they play the game...or an author how well they tell a story...or an actor how well they perform...or a cop how well they uphold the law.
I have zero problems with the degenerates in the respective Halls of Fame, because they earned it by how they played. It's not the Hall of Famously Great Human Beings.
Nothing personal at all, but every time I hear someone pull the "What about the children?" card, I want to throw up. Whoever's worried about the example that someone like Lawrence-effing-Taylor is setting for their children isn't doing anything resembling their job.
Betting on your own team to win vs. throwing a World Series.
Yeah, those are the same.
They knew "LT" history when he was inducted. Sadly the voters don't seem to care about a players off the field problems. IF convicted he should be removed from the HOF. Those are guys kids look up to.
I am amazed at how it seems many think it is ok to continue to honor
people who have done really bad crimes.
I was thinking about this. Remember the Movie "The Ten Commandments"
Here was Moses a great military leader and conquer. He builds a city and
great monuments. He is given great honor. People call his name from
the balconies and the streets. He is enshrined and his name
is etched in stone along with the great Pharaoh of that time
Then he commits murder and speaks words of rebellion. His punishment
is banishment and HIS NAME IS REMOVED from all stone.
Further his name is never to be spoken again.
Harsh? maybe. But I like it. So it should be for all heroes of today.
Maybe if for high crimes committed by our heroes the result was disgrace,
banishment and the loss of recognition for a life of achievement
then heroes may think twice before acting is such shameful ways.
Just maybe.
But we of today's world are more civilized. We give our heroes
special status. They or at least their place of recognition among
the greats are protected from retribution for hideous crimes they
might commit. How sad.
I grew up watching LT when I lived in NY and I worshipped him, when I read that he was arrested for rape it was like being punched in the stomach but even knowing what an utter disappointment he is as a person I still wouldnt want to have grown up without watching him.
Should "Time" magazine purge it's files of the issue where it named Hitler as "Man of the Year"?
I am amazed at how it seems many think it is ok to continue to honor
people who have done really bad crimes.
But we of today's world are more civilized. We give our heroes
special status. They or at least their place of recognition among
the greats are protected from retribution for hideous crimes they
might commit. How sad.
You identified the likely disconnect with your opinion and many others - you characterize those in the Hall as "heroes," not athletes or players. Many would characterize Pat Tillman as a "hero," but he is not in the Hall. His conduct as an individual, not as a player, earned him that status.
If you choose to call the Hall of Fame the Hall of Heroes, that is your subjective label attached to those players. They did not get in based on hero status, they made it in on statistics and championships. If you call that heroic, I would suggest you are setting the bar pretty low for that status.
No, they aren't, if parents are actually parenting. No person whom you don't know closely should ever be held up as a role model for your children. Ever. The only thing that a child should emulate about an athlete is how they play the game...or an author how well they tell a story...or an actor how well they perform...or a cop how well they uphold the law.
I have zero problems with the degenerates in the respective Halls of Fame, because they earned it by how they played. It's not the Hall of Famously Great Human Beings.
Nothing personal at all, but every time I hear someone pull the "What about the children?" card, I want to throw up. Whoever's worried about the example that someone like Lawrence-effing-Taylor is setting for their children isn't doing anything resembling their job.