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Originally posted by nostatic
ha. spoken like a true pro sports kool aid drinker. There are a handful of positive role models that do good works. Most of them are over-paid thugs who give "disenfranchised youth" pipe dreams, 99.9% of which end poorly.
But you'll believe what you want. As will I. I've quit watching most pro sports because it ain't like it used to be. Guys used to play for the love and honor of the game. Now it is about money, money, and money. College too.
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A handful? How would you know? You don't "watch" sports programming (as you claim above), where many of these "handful" of professionals either give PSAs about, or are noted by announcers as to their community tidings.
Unless you're just attempting to be contentious, if you believe what you're writing, you
really have no clue about what you're talking about. 99.9%? Is that factual?
Seriously, you manifest off poorly-found, societal generalizations. Simply because of your refusal to watch pro sports, makes your claims groundless.
One sport I've seen you support, which is cycling, is steeped in cheating, thuggery and the resulting societal fallout of both to those who follow the sport - so let's not fail to cast our aspersions there.
Third, with you being a supporter of F1, I'm certain you also need to take into account the unsportsman-like conduct of certain racers, like Schumacher, who of late, has been cited for knocking other drivers off the race course. You better save a rock to throw that direction as well.
Whether a kick in the face, a tap of tire that causes a loss of life at close to 200 mph, or a shoulder knock that makes a rider fall down a side of the Pyrenees Mountains...your ideal of thuggery is pervasive in nearly every sport.
Even Olympic figure skating if you recall the Tonya Harding situation, has its brutality. Oh yeah, and when those or any Olympiad goes pro, they're also usually paid millions, which, I imagine, must equate to "overpaid."