Who's Your Hero?

The majority of what I have written so far has been about sports, mainly my thoughts on the high jinks taking place in Buffalo. So I thought I would switch gears here and discuss something a little different.

Over the past year, children have not had a lot to look up to. It seems we constantly see star athletes getting arrested for gun possession or drugs or illegal dog fighting rings. These potential role models are literally getting away with murder. And what’s worse, is that our nation’s court system allows this to go on.

For example, Danté Stallworth kills a man with his car, driving over the speed limit, blows a 0.12 (well over the legal intoxication limit) and gets away with 30 days in jail, community service, probation, and the permanent loss of his driver’s license in Florida. Come on! Had that been you or me, we first of all wouldn’t have been charged with manslaughter, it would have murder. And as a result we’d be rotting in prison.

Back to my point, what kind of message is our court system sending? A lot of the concern is placed on our nations children. We think that this will influence them to do these inappropriate things, but I believe anyone with a brain can see that these are special circumstances. While millions of kids see this going on, only a small fraction of a percent will ever experience professional athletics and the money and distractions that go with it.

Every year hundreds of young men and women enter the realm of professional athletics. And every year more and more of these rookies are getting into more and more serious trouble and they get away with it in relation to how the rest of us would be sentenced. I firmly believe that unless people start stepping up, this problem will get further out of hand than it already is. It starts with our court system. I won’t say that it is corrupt, but if Lady Justice is blind, she sure as hell can smell money, fame, and athletic ability and she’s a bigger groupie gold digger than those two stupid women that follow T.O. everywhere he goes!

And to think, this whole entry was spawned from watching an old episode of Salute Your Shorts in which Donkey Lips overcomes the odds against him and wins the Capture the Flag game for his camp! Now there’s a real hero!