These few statements are tame compared to the more racial ones that have been posted. What is wrong with these individuals? Bradley Patterson, one of the many that commented, played for the North Alabama college football team as a long snapper. After his comments, the athletic department kicked him of the team. Since when do sports of any kind become more important than life and the tragedies that come along with it. Sports are meant to be a way of evolving one's own inner self and to be a role model emulating the sporting creed such as live clean, play hard. Play for the love of the game. Win without boasting, lose without excuses. Respect officials no matter if there is a bad call and to never forget that they represent their school and city. Over time the sporting creed has all but disappeared from sports while wanton greed and lack of sportsmanship has become the normal. I say this because it's on television and at the local sports arena every day. Sports can still be an ambassador of good but it's become corrupt and some of the fans that follow the teams have become the same. With salaries going through the roof for coaches and players it's a wonder that anyone can afford to go to a college or pro game of any sport. Here is one example of greed in sports. it's not something made up out of the blue, it's an actual football contract between one of the major colleges and it's coach in the United States. Oklahoma University Football Head Coach Contract . I don't think it's fair to the instructors that they have to take a back seat to sports programs. College Professor Salaries and college coaching salaries should be on a level playing field. Everyone excels in their own realm but I don't think that one should outshine the other as far as the pay scale being so indifferent. Sports figures are no different than anyone else. Whether you coach, play, or sit in the stands, we all are basically the same, some are just placed on a higher pedestal than others by their peers. It's still no cause to place them so far above everyone else they become deities to the sports institution. Everyone wants a winning team but there is no shame in losing. In every game there has to be a loser. Serious fans of any sport don't think this way. Winning is the only option and losing means you are worthless and at all cost there has to be a way to become a winner. So this goes out to the overly serious fans that believe their football game was more important than human lives. You have become a puppet to the world of sports. Whenever someone pulls one of your strings you wander about and act as one who is in control of the strings that are being pulled. In other words....you're only as smart as the one pulling the strings. Sports is only entertainment, it's not life critical. It's there to enjoy and not to feed on like a piece of meat thrown to a hungry lion. Whatever happened to the days people played sports for the fun of playing and the fans watched for the entertainment value of the event? It's still there....it's just masked under all that hype and crap we have to put up with every time we tune into a sports channel or see live in an arena.
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