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Originally Posted by Textcritic
These sweeping generalizations are just as disingenuous as the hero worship.
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Bull####. Show me where I'm wrong. The vast majority of professional athletes are mercenaries, willing to ply their trade for anyone who is willing to pay them. There is little loyalty to teams, just as there is little loyalty to players. The history of the "free agent period" supports my claim. But people that are vested in believing that their favorite players are not subject to such pressures, and they are team players. Contracts and clauses say otherwise.
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Originally Posted by cannon7
It's almost as though a person can both hold unpopular opinions and still be a good person. Weird.
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When the opinions counter that of science and that which is substantiated by the scientific method, then yes, they expose themselves to question. When they double down and hold opinions that are counter to scientific proof and still forward archaic ideas that fly in the face of proof, or promote ideas that are just on the lunatic fringe, then yes, they move themselves into the "non-good person" category. Fleury is no different than Tucker Carlson in his espousal of stupid ideas. Tucker Carlson is a piece of #### and should be ridiculed at every opportunity, until he crawls under the rock he from which he came from. Fleury is no different in that regard IMO.
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Originally Posted by CroFlames
If your kid loves a player, do you tell them to quickly stop because is a very bad thing?
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Yes. Hero worship should be for those who deserve it. Only those of high quality and character deserve such worship. Most professional athletes are self-center pieces of #### and not worth the adoration we heap upon them. Tom Brady maybe the GOAT, but his repressible behavior outside the game would make me tell any young person that he is no role model or anyone you should aspire to be. I quickly understood that my heroes (athletes) growing up were pretty ####ty human beings and did not deserve the adoration heaped upon them. I tell the younger generation to weigh their choices carefully and recognize there is more to an individual than the stage they perform on. Better to save that adoration for someone who actually sacrificed for someone else instead of working for themselves.