Comments on: NOT VERY BELOVED

By: Hallfasthero

Hallfasthero — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:44:08 +0000

Truth be known, it doesnâ€™t cost one thin dime to change an attitude.

Chip

Technically, that is correct. Realistically, everyone has mental baggage (skeletons in the closet) they have to deal with and that has nothing to do with whether you are rich or not. I am not making apologies for this player, just commenting on the generalization.

By the way my team, the Vikings, are going down in flames this year so I am going start cheering on Chicago to go all the way backing the Central in the playoffs. Its time our division took it all and the Bears look great.

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:46:28 +0000

Apparently one can take the boy out of the ‘hood, but not the ‘hood out of the boy.

Will LiberalWorld, enamored with the notion that redistribution of wealth will clear up so many of the pock-marks on the face of our society, be able to latch onto the nuggets of truth revealed by yet another public persona hurling themselves off the pinnacle of success?

Seeing Tank hopelessly mired in the dank, putrid muck of his own making is a poignant reminder of a loosely formed hypothesis of mine, i.e. that even in the presence of unlimited material wealth, and a perfectly fair system of distribution, such that every need and want of every person on the planet were to be satisfied, at least 10% would still find a way to self-destruct.

That a lack of self-respect is somehow correlated to poverty is but one of the many fallacies which came out of the so-called “liberation” of the 1960s and 1970s.

Truth be known, it doesn’t cost one thin dime to change an attitude.

Chip

By: Parson Weems

Parson Weems — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:12:00 +0000

As an athlete of some renown Mr. Johnson does not appear to be the kind of example we would hope that our young people would emulate.

Why is it that the National Football League does not require its licensed franchises to cut those athletes who serve as a bad example to impressionable youth?

By: steve sturm

steve sturm — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:13:40 +0000

When’s the last time a team in contention in any sport took serious action against a player who was a contributor? I don’t know of any.

You willing to bet the Bears do what you think they will? GMs and coaches get fired for not winning games and championships; they don’t get retained for being ‘good citizens’. And I haven’t yet heard of the owner who agrees to risk sinking the season in order to punish a player who acts improperly.

Screw up as a two-bit player and you’re in trouble. Screw up on a team that is out of contention and you’re in trouble. But if you’re a star and you’re team is in the playoff hunt, you can do what you want.