Why Athletes are Good Role Models
Uploaded by Marcin11 on Feb 20, 2000
Ever since the ancient years, we have admired athletes and the hard work that they do to achieve their goal of winning. We idolize them and wish we were more like them. What happens though when the realization sinks in that they are human too and that some of them do get greedy and selfish? A lot of athletes are model citizens that you should really look up to, but there are also some bad apples in the bunch that ruin it for everyone. Athletes can inspire young people to work hard so that their efforts can pay off, but no one is pure and flawless. Greed does take a hold of some players, but they shouldn't be the ones we devote all of our attention to. We should look at the positive things that people do. The media does not go around reporting all of the good things that these people do, just the bad things and their mistakes. They are only human just like the rest of us. Are these people safe for our children to idolize to look up to? I think that the answer is YES!If you were watching the news, would you really want to hear about all of the charities that an athlete has donated money to? It would be interesting at first, but you would get tired of it afterwards. That is why the media never covers anything like this. We all know that they really don't care about anything else except for a hot topic. The truth really does not mean anything to them. This we notice in all the cases that the media jumps to wrongful conclusions, such as the Richard Jewel case and the Olympic bombing and the TWA flight 800 that blew up over New York. The media jumped to numerous conclusions that had us lost. Do you think these people worry about what fund raiser Michael Jordan attended and about what Shaquille O'Neal did on Thanksgiving for the needy? No. They are more interested in what color Dennis Rodman's hair is and what he wore last night at Excalibur. I had to go through days of research to find out that Chicago Bears star Chris Zorich has started a full scholarship at Notre Dame for inner city youths that get accepted to the school, but can't afford it. He plays for our city's football team, and we have...