Are you the "prototypical" example?
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roman18
growing up I watched guys like Roman Gabriel, Jack Snow, all those guys. I never considered them "Role Models" more in the way of sports heroes, guys I wanted to emulate when playing football, in the yard, etc.....My role models came from my actual life experiences, people in my community who showed how to live in the world I lived in. Some teachers, some people in my Temple, neighbors and how they went about taking care of their life homes,families, even yards......
I never had a chance to see Gabe, or Snow, or Deacon etc. save for their actions on a football field....Maybe that is the problem in todays world these kids only see how a guy plays a game and that is all that is in their world?
Taking care of your business, going to school, making sure you stay right, learn, grow form real people right in your own backyard are not of interest? It's more how a guy thumps his chest after scoring a basket, or dancing after a score, or talking trash...most sports stars are models for those things for the most part....Notice I said MOST stars......When a kid sees AD swinging a helmet, or guys throwing helmets, or punching other players etc....it should be a given those things are not proper.....but comes from the people the kid grows up around....not from the big superstar on the TV.
IMO kids need to find their Role Models from their own life experiences, not on a phone, or a TV........
That may be "your" experience roman18 but I ASSURE you there are kids that will think it is ok to start swinging helmets and grab people by the throat when met with "adversity".
And yes, it should be "a given those things are not proper" but unfortunately it's not a "given" for everyone. I know it...you know it...but "little Jimmy" might not have the upbringing we had.
AD IS a "role model" no matter how you define it. He is a "role model" for you, me AND "Little Jimmy" too. He should act like it.
As I said, there are better ways to handle adversity. Punch the guy. Push the guy. Wrestle him down. Scratch him. Call him names! Pull his hair! Tell him you slept over at his mother's house last night! All those are better options than swinging a helmet at peoples heads or grabbing them by the throat. JMO
#HelmetHornsMatter
“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood
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