Super Bowl Ad

teriwtt
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:59:31 +0000

Also, in context what is being played on TV - having a football player who is quite talented (I hear), isn’t that a human-interest story, to boot? Kind of like the Olympics. There are loads of commercials and human interest stories about athletes to get you into the sentimental mode of watching sports and rooting for your athletes and teams?



I think this is the issue that I brought up earlier. After the Tiger Woods (and Michael Phelps) fiasco, I really struggle with seeing any famous athlete as a role model. I can certainly appreciate them for the talent they have as an athlete, but I’m beginning to suspect (yea, I’m naive; I’m sure many others have thought this longer than I) that, like politicians and many stars, I think there’s an arrogance implicit with those in these positions. I think when you’re elevated so high, in such a public way, humility is a hard thing to hold onto, and inevitably they fail.

So best to recognize their talent and rise to power, but don’t extrapolate it to their personal life as being so pure.

When I was in high school, I was a huge fan of a WHA team (when the WHA was still around), and got fairly close to people who knew many of the team members very well (I was also very good friends with the coach’s daughter). I had older friends who were sleeping with some of the players, home team and visiting team. And many of them were married, or had girlfriends. Yea, there were a handful who were faithful, and the groupies knew not to even bother.

But I guess I’m just skeptical of putting anyone who’s risen to fame on such a pedestal anymore that I wouldn’t be suspect of some sort of hypocrisy on some level. I did ask in an earlier post if anyone here could name a professional athlete who they could, without fail, be assured there wasn’t/isn’t some sort of scandal in their lives. And no one has.