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Offline Matthew

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Why are athletes our heroes?
« on: February 17, 2007, 02:08:20 PM »
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    • Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model: "I wan' all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to copulate me."
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    New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:  "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."
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    And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the Redskins say: "I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl", Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too.
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    Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:  "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
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    Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann, 1996: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
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    Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
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    Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up alphabetically by height." And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."
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    Boxing trainer Lou Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
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    Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker: "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."
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    Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
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    Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice: "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt" (I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)
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    Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"
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    Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."
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    Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded: "Because she is too ugly to kiss good-bye."
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #1 on: February 17, 2007, 02:26:48 PM »
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    • All of the heroes of our secular culture, be they real or fictional seem to cry out in need of the saints.
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #2 on: August 17, 2011, 09:34:10 AM »
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    • Looks like Andre Dawson and Joe Jacobi are a bit mixed up in terms of priorities. There are some nice sports athletes out there, but most of them are greedy snobs who love money too much and let their fame go to their heads.
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #3 on: August 17, 2011, 09:52:45 AM »
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    • Athletes certainly aren't my heroes.

    Like SS said, most of them are too deep in the secular culture of greed and snobbery for anyone with Catholic sense to appreciate.

    Athlete worship is just as bad as animal worship. People put so much love into animals that aren't capable of rational thought rather than humans. It's says a lot when there's more of an outcry about a dog being killed for fun by a soldier than there is for a school of innocent children being blown up for no reason.
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #4 on: August 17, 2011, 10:42:05 AM »
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    • This was hilarious!  :roll-laugh2: I know its sad, but it was oh so funny!
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    « Reply #5 on: August 17, 2011, 10:42:18 AM »
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    • I don't watch sports. I have never got "it". I always preferred running and weight lifting and other solitary "sports".
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #6 on: August 17, 2011, 11:00:40 AM »
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    • Glad I've never "looked up" to any sports stars.   :roll-laugh2:

    But why are they our heroes? Firstly because the media say's so, and we don't ask why. Second, the destruction of the aristocracy left a gap of social influence and this is what They filled it with.
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #7 on: August 17, 2011, 12:27:19 PM »
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    • Quote from: sedetrad
    I don't watch sports. I have never got "it". I always preferred running and weight lifting and other solitary "sports".


    Same here to be quite honest.
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #8 on: August 17, 2011, 04:07:16 PM »
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    Athlete worship is just as bad as animal worship. People put so much love into animals that aren't capable of rational thought rather than humans. It's says a lot when there's more of an outcry about a dog being killed for fun by a soldier than there is for a school of innocent children being blown up for no reason.


    You're right. That animal worship stuff comes from the environmentalist freaks running the world. Animals don't have souls, so they aren't near as important as humans' lives.

    Perhaps the biggest problem I have with sports is that they play on Sundays, some even on Easter and Christmas. I guess they think winning a championship that they can't even take to Heaven with them is more important than keeping Sunday holy by attending Mass.
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #9 on: August 17, 2011, 05:15:19 PM »
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    • Because the american public is essentially dead inside.  Plus the media tells us to worship athletes(sic)
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    Why are athletes our heroes?
    « Reply #10 on: August 17, 2011, 09:08:34 PM »
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    This was hilarious!  :roll-laugh2: I know its sad, but it was oh so funny!


     :laugh1: i agree! looks like yogisms common to all athletes.

    i think people should be littl more compassionate though. these guy get hit in head a lot.
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