Watching ESPN today I saw somehing that struck me as immature and classless, a perfect description of todays atheletes. Of course I'm reffering to the punch throw by Oregons LeGaratte Blount following their 19-8 defeat to Boise St in football. As the Boise St. player turned to leave after an argument at the end of the game, Blount sucker punched the player in the jaw, in front of the entire country. This leads me to discuss the class in sports nowadays, or lack of class. With such players as Michael Vick and Pacman Jones dominating the headlines as they disrespect their organizations and teammates they give an awful example to kids. The majority of athletes nowadays have forgotten about what makes athletes different and how they can utilize there talents. Todays athletes are disrespectful and rowdy people who are constantly getting in trouble with the law, instead of the old time athlete who was a good teammate and a respectable person who knew there talents and showed up everyday to do there job without complaints. Nowadays athletes think of it as their destiny to play the sports and that they are better than everyone else, so they dont have to work as hard, instead of using there positions of power to help the world and be a positive role model to others. Where has the class from sports gone? Why do todays athletes have such different attitudes than before?
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I was about to post about this event myself. I happened to be watching the game, and I was shocked. Violence over a football game? What has this country come to?
ReplyDeleteBut then again overall athletes have not been making good role models for children. And the sad thing is that children so often look up to athletes because they want to be like them. I feel like every week another professional athlete is arrested for having a gun, or violence, or something else they should not be doing. Professional Athletes need to shape up and start setting a good example.