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Posted 2009-05-20, 11:27 AM in reply to Sum Yung Guy's post starting "When I was a kid, sport stars where my..."
Sum Yung Guy said: [Goto]
When I was a kid, sport stars where my idols. Wayne Gretzy, Jordan, Bo Jackson, Will Clark.....

I think that is what being a star athlete is about. Being able to be a rolemodel. How many young kids read about Vick when he got caught, and thought it was cool to do what he did? Children are very easy to influence. If we want to have a better generation of kids growing up we need to focus the people who get to stay in the spotlight. Let this be a lesson for kids, if your going to do something like Vick did, your going to be punished.
I do agree with your points, and I do think athletes should be role models for kids. The problem with that is, athletes aren't paid to be role models, that's what barney and the guy from blue's clues is paid to do, Athletes are paid to do just that, be athletes. What they do off the field has nothing to do with the sport they participate in and it doesn't make a ratass difference who the player is. I have heard now that the NFL comissioner has stated that Vick is eligible to return.

As for the universal rule change? Hell no. Some of us like the players with bad attitudes and off-the-field issues. It adds depth to the game.














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Posted 2009-05-20, 11:58 AM in reply to D3V's post starting "I do agree with your points, and I do..."
You're right athletes are not paid to be rolemodels. I am not paid to be human. But I am, and athletes ARE rolemodels for young ones.
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Posted 2009-05-21, 06:39 AM in reply to Sum Yung Guy's post starting "You're right athletes are not paid to..."
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You're right athletes are not paid to be rolemodels. I am not paid to be human. But I am, and athletes ARE rolemodels for young ones.
They might be, or might not be role models for kids. I doubt any kids have started a dog fighting ring because they heard of Michael Vick doing it, more likely they won't being that they heard he went for jail for it, so in the end the justification is already there.

If they made it to where Michael Vick couldn't play anymore, the blasphemous league full of ex-offenders would all need to be eliminated, any coaches involved in anything illegal, ever would have to be shunned away from the league. This is not an option, as I said before; If a player serves his/her time legally and is in no way in any trouble with the law anymore, they should not be pushed away.














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Posted 2009-05-21, 07:14 AM in reply to D3V's post starting "They might be, or might not be role..."
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They might be, or might not be role models for kids. I doubt any kids have started a dog fighting ring because they heard of Michael Vick doing it, more likely they won't being that they heard he went for jail for it, so in the end the justification is already there.
I disagree with this. Think about rappers. They do illegal shit all of the time, and our young population follows in their footsteps anyway. I'm not saying it's exactly the same, though.

I still don't think his crimes are relevant to whether or not he can play in the NFL. If he's good enough to play, let him play. I don't see why anything else should matter.
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Posted 2009-05-21, 07:23 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "I disagree with this. Think about..."
Michael Vick wasn't even the one dog-fighting, he was just letting it happen on one of his properties. The whole Dog fighting is wrong mentality has already been skullfucked in through the media the last year or so since the Vick incident.

You can't even really say look at kids acting like rappers, that isn't accurate either. Kids just want to be thugs, and a bunch of thugs just happen to be rappers. What about all of the good rappers? Common, Questlove, even Eminem has been helping out in the recession by flying a full audience from Detroit (that have been laid off) to the Jimmy Kimmel show.














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Posted 2009-05-22, 01:32 AM in reply to D3V's post starting "Michael Vick wasn't even the one..."
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Michael Vick wasn't even the one dog-fighting, he was just letting it happen on one of his properties.
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Posted 2009-05-22, 06:59 AM in reply to Sum Yung Guy's post starting ":rolleyes:"
I'm being serious. He only got in trouble because his friends we're doing the deed, on his property. If they had been growing marijuana at his spare house, he would've gotten the full penalty as well.














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