You can always count on the professional athlete to demonstrate proper behavior. I wish more people would not go to sporting events. I haven't watched much sport on TV for the past few years and to be totally honest, I haven't missed it much. I have very little respect for most of the players. I would bet that not too many of them play the game for the love of it. If more of them remembered it was a game and not a business, I would gladly watch more and I am sure enjoy it more. When the high-profile athletes at major colleges and the professionals behave more like spoiled brats who only know to throw punches and sling their helmets at each other, I have no interest in supporting them. I don't even care much to support the various TV outlets that replay these episodes 50 times a day, all the while deploring the behavior.
Take another area of the games we spend way too much time giving attention to; the salaries of these people. I would like to see how long I would keep a position at the nursing home if I walked in tomorrow and said, "I've been thinking." (Some would say that is where my problems begin.) "I refuse to work for this place unless you pay me $10.00 more dollars an hour. I love speech therapy so much that I am willing to not do it for the next year unless you give me that much more." That mindset is absolutely ludicrous. Yet the professional athletes do it year after year. I think they think a little too highly of themselves. I heard that FOX paid around 1 billion dollars to broadcast the BCS games this year. Utterly ridiculous! There is nothing fun about sports these days. The average family can't go the ballpark and take in a Reds game without forking over at least $100.00 (without a hot dog or a Dasani to wash it down.) Who would ever have thought I would pay $4.25 for a bottle of water at the Clippers game last summer and watch my two kids proceed to fill it with the popcorn that backwashed into the bottle immediately? That is right, they refused to drink anymore of it! Since it was the only bottle the three of us were going to share, might I tell you that of all of the flavored bottled water I have ever drunk, popcorn was not my favorite.
That was a little tangent. I have more to say about it and may at another time. To complete this thought today, I would like to see the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and the NCAA institute a system that punishes stupidity and unacceptable behavior. I am glad I never felt any athlete was a role model for me. I recall a few years ago when Charles Barkley was playing in the NBA and he said, "I am not a role model." He was right. I don't know how he meant that but I took it to mean that he wasn's a very good one. I think that was after he stomped on a guy's chest. I pray that I can direct my children to emulate godly people. I am thankful I had many godly people to look up to as a child. Unfortunately, these athletes have nothing to dissuade them from behaving like that. What is a 15 game suspension for any of them? A five-dollar bill out of their pocket. Again, utterly ridiculous!
I am thankful for godly men and women who seek to instill godliness in young people. May I be one of them.
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I a;most threw up when I firrst tasted popcorn jelly beans. I can't imagine popcorn water. Your right about the athlete thing it's ridiculous. I can't stand basketball. Especially after the Artest thibg a couple of years ago. But again it's the only stuff I can watch in front of the kid's without bad language and perverse conversations.
Craig forgive my typos. It's late and my contacts are foggy.
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