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Originally Posted by jsarno
It has nothing to do with that fact that dmek doesn't make millions. It does have to do with the fact that like it or not, this guy is a role model, and due to his millions of dollars he is getting paid, he has a strong responsibility to the fans, the team, the owner, and to society.
If you went to your boss and wanted to be tranferred to a different section of the company, and he said no...then you did it again, and he said no...then again, and again, and again, and be a baby about it...what do you think would happen to you?
Those contracts they sign protect him and the team. Look at it from the team prespective...why would they want to lose someone of his caliber? They developed him, and they paid him big bucks, and he still wants to go???
CJ needs to be thankful that we as a society accept this behavior from our athletes, cause in the real world, that doesn't work at all.
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His responsibility to the team, his coaches and owner is to show up when the team is gathered for practices and games, give full effort during such and try to help his team win. He (nor any other athlete, celebrity or non elected official) has NO responsibility to the fans or society. For some reason we as a society continue to place this on people in the spotlight despite it having no place there. They are a role model to your children only if you allow them to be. Telling your kids that CJ, PacMan, Jordan, OJ, Britney, whoever is blessed with an incredible gift but is also human and is fallable to their decisions and will face consequences based on their actions is the responsible thing to do rather than to hope that athletes act in a way that is congruent with your morals and ethics so you don't have to have that tough conversation.
If I went to my boss and repeatedly asked for a transfer and didn't get it as long as I showed up when scheduled and did my job then nothing would happen to me. Now if I stopped performing my tasks then I would be dealt with, but to use your correlation if in my job there were voluntary (but strongly encouraged) supplemental education courses each Saturday that I chose not to participate in, there's not a damn thing my boss could do about it. Here's the big difference, if I don't like my company or boss, there are no less than 15 other places I could quit my job and get hired at. In the NFL, that's not an option so the correlation is moot. Can't compare grapes to grapefruits.
CJ doesn't have to be thankful to society for a damn thing! That's the mentality that irks me beyond words that they should be thankful that they are 'allowed' to act a certain way or if they don't they should 'shut up and play.' These people are grown ass adults just like most of us. They are blessed with a God given talent most of us would love to have just a smidgen of and are fortunate to have an arena to display said talents.
As long as they are breaking no laws or harming no-one in our family, who are we to tell them how to manage their business or say and not say? To the inevitible answer of 'I help pay their salary' no you don't. The NFL generates much more revenue from TV/media contracts and advertisers than it does from ticket sales. Concession sales outweigh game day ticket sales revenues. We're a drop in the bucket. We pay a higher percentage of postal workers, teachers and other public employees salaries than we ever would of any athlete.