Dr Zaius
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Brett Favre and the text messages
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Exactly the same with a lot of our high earning sportsmen over here....
Reach the pinacle...leave brains behind at the entry gate
A couple of years ago a really pleasant young Englishman by the name of Bradley Wright Phillips (a footballer) was out with his mates in London town....
He thought it would be a good idea to steal money from the handbag of one of the waitresses serving him and his entourage.
Said waitress's earnings...c£5 per hour plus tips.
BWP's earning....around £10k per week.
'Ol Fezziwig
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I suppose I should find it despicable and stupid, were it not for the epidemic of same being done not only by teens, but pre-teens as well. That is the greater societal problem, not a late 30 year old (this is from 2 years ago, no?) man sending pics of his junk.
Don Maddox,
You don't think that sport or other celebs had some real misteps in the past (I would wager that by todays lense put in the past the behaviors would be worse 40+years ago--media and the market is no longer as allied in building up the hero worship biographyies of the past. That would go for history books as well, as there is a move away from the individual,owards external forces. )? The difference today is it is much more for public consumption, that might extend to politics also.
Mike
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It seems that today the media is much more interested in tearing down sports heroes rather than building them up. We'll have to wait and see whether Favre engaged in some stupid 'sexting' with a journalist. Maybe he did and maybe he didn't. But you just know the media is hoping and praying that he did.
Don Maddox,
And where are we the public in the mix? I'm not a big believer in the idea of falsely bulding up a "sports hero", or ignoring what seems to be a truth. Still, the thread didn't start out with comments about the play against the Jets where he got out of the pocket, moved right, evaded a tackle and threw a pass. Do we as consumers get some of the credit for the direction the media takes?
Mike
'Ol Fezziwig
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In order to perpetuate their 24 hour a day news cycle, that's exactly what they do. In MA, we have Michael Felger, a poor Skip Bayless impersonator, who hates athletes and sports fan ("you people") who purposely instigates in the name of creating conflict, and hence, 'interest'.
His latest campaign had been his transparent effort to get Randy Moss shipped out of NE, which indeed happened. To say his relentless efforts were not at least a small part of the trade is simply burying your head in the sand. Many of his local contempories are disgusted with his behaviour on air and radio. Even with Moss gone, he hasn't let up. In fact, the day after the trade, they could only show him from the waist up on air due to his Florida-esque boner.
Sports writers will have to be careful not to set fire to their gravy train, lest their raison d'etre disappears in the flames...
