So over the past few years, and especially this past 2, there seems to be an awful lot of players in serious trouble with the law. I can remember a time when a drug suspension was a serious thing but now that almost seems mild in the light of recent events involving NFL players. Shootings, alleged murders, domestic violence, and on and on it goes.
My second beef is with contracts. Forget the cash to cap nonsense, my beef is players who after singing a contract to play for a certain amount of dollars for a certain amount of time not honoring their word. Its disgusting.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I remember when people played football for respect, for the love of the game, they played because they were warriors who wanted more than anything else to win and be cheered by the home crowd and booed loudly when playing away. The so called warriors of today consist of Terrel Owens, Randy Moss who are themselves an easy target, but a mere reflection of a much larger problem. The players today are gifted athletes and in most cases physically superior to players of yester year. But many today lack heart, passion, and concern for anything other for themselves. Put TO or Randy Moss next to Steve Largent and the physocal mismatch is unquestionable. However, Largent, like so many other star players of days gone by showed up to play both on gameday and practice throughout the week without the media circus or drama we see today.
So in light of all of this I think the game of Football is in serious trouble. "High character" often gets a negative rap on this site and others, but its the players who lack character who damage their teams, ruin seasons, and will eventually kill the game unless their is a significant change in the near future. Sadly I only seeing it get worse before it gets better. Just my opinion.
My second beef is with contracts. Forget the cash to cap nonsense, my beef is players who after singing a contract to play for a certain amount of dollars for a certain amount of time not honoring their word. Its disgusting.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I remember when people played football for respect, for the love of the game, they played because they were warriors who wanted more than anything else to win and be cheered by the home crowd and booed loudly when playing away. The so called warriors of today consist of Terrel Owens, Randy Moss who are themselves an easy target, but a mere reflection of a much larger problem. The players today are gifted athletes and in most cases physically superior to players of yester year. But many today lack heart, passion, and concern for anything other for themselves. Put TO or Randy Moss next to Steve Largent and the physocal mismatch is unquestionable. However, Largent, like so many other star players of days gone by showed up to play both on gameday and practice throughout the week without the media circus or drama we see today.
So in light of all of this I think the game of Football is in serious trouble. "High character" often gets a negative rap on this site and others, but its the players who lack character who damage their teams, ruin seasons, and will eventually kill the game unless their is a significant change in the near future. Sadly I only seeing it get worse before it gets better. Just my opinion.
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