Comments on: The Return of the Redemptive Hero http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news/2011/02/09/the-return-of-the-redemptive-hero/ Fri, 17 May 2013 00:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nathanKent http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news/2011/02/09/the-return-of-the-redemptive-hero/comment-page-1/#comment-9966 nathanKent Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:20:33 +0000 http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news/?p=13891#comment-9966 In some ways, yes. I think we’re sick insofar as our ability to overlook an actual criminal act on account of innate superhuman athletic ability, but by the same token, I believe very much in the Charles Barkley school of thought about athletes as role models. Ergo, I have a major problem with Roethlisberger, who is an unconvicted felon, but no problem whatsoever with Favre, who is a guy exercising what Robert Klein terms a BJM (Bad Johnson Management). Most of us are guilty of at least one or two BJMs in our lives.

You raise some very good points across the board, Jeff.

]]> By: Jeff in VA http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news/2011/02/09/the-return-of-the-redemptive-hero/comment-page-1/#comment-9947 Jeff in VA Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:30:26 +0000 http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news/?p=13891#comment-9947 Very good article. I learned a long time ago in an Army Equal Opportunity course, that people pick up things in their socialization process and carry them on through life. An example of this would be someone brought up to dislike others of a different race will often carry that dislike throughout their life and will never even see whats wrong with it. A person brought up in a tough neighborhood where young kids gamble on dogfights all the time, might go through life thinking that behavior is okay, not even thinking about how the dog feels about it until one day he finds himself charged and all of a sudden he sees the whole picture and how he was wrong.

On the other hand, Ben confuses me. He had an incident a couple years ago that should have made him realize he needs to stop this behavior (disrespecting women) that he learned either growing up, or, more probably, in his star athelete days in college or as a pro.

Don’t even get me started on Brett Favre. In all three cases, their behavior was learned and accepted by those around them. But in only one case, as you mentioned, did someone accept responsibility for his actions. Also, all of them are temporarily forgiven by their fans, when making plays on the field.

Ask a hundred football fans if they would like their daughters to marry any of these guys, a very low percentage would say yes. Ask the same hundred fans if you would want them to QB your team (assuming you don’t have a HOF QB already) and a very high percentage would say yes. Are we sick too?

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