Does character count?

[PSUSkinsFan21]

Originally Posted by Daseal

I know a lot of people who ride bikes that have great characters.

And if they don't make it into work because they crash their bikes popping wheelies like a 12-year-old on a new BMX, do all of their co-workers and thousands of fans suffer? Did they start doing tricks before even getting a license for those bikes?......these people you speak of.

He calls our team out because Joe Gibbs promised to draft him and he wanted to be a Redskin. What an asshole - can you count the number of players upset that they didn't become a Redskin?

I can assure you his frustration and anger were fueled more by his own ego than by his desire to be a member of whatever team happened to be drafting in the top 5 last year

He called himself a soldier. Know what's ironic? It was either on Don & Mike or Ron & Fez. They were talking to a soldier and he compared his unit to a football team. So what? people always have compared football players to soldiers.

I can guarantee you I never have.

Just now it's really a touchy feely subject (stupid).

I have no words that won't get me kicked off this site to respond to this comment.

Let's rename Soldier field, to overpaid physically gifted persons field. I feel someone calling themself a soldier could be a remark of respect too. Football is a violent game where the wars are won and loss in the trenches. It's how it is, you'll never stop the analogies between football and war.

If you really think even the most grueling football game in history has come anywhere close to a war, then we really should just not bother having this conversation.

I promise you, that clause gets broken on a daily basis, even by Redskins players.

Murders get committed every day too, doesn't make it right.

Like I said, NOBODY is going to convince me that Winslow's calling himself a soldier is OK. When's the last time Winslow risked life and limb (literally) for his country? When's the last time he slept in ditch on foreign soil? When's the last time he went without decent food or the comforts of home for months on end? When's the last time he couldn't even see his friends or family for months because he had a job to do? And when's the last time he did all of this for peanuts (instead of millions of dollars) so that young, 20-year-old spoiled brats who have nothing else to worry about except working out, playing a game for a living, and riding around on new high-priced toys could have the freedom to disrespect him by comparing their "heroics" on a football field to that of being a soldier. Seriously, give me a freaking break.

Soldiers compare their teamwork to that of a football team? So be it. They've earned the right to make any comparison they want. Anybody's who ever played football knows what it's like to play football. But don't think for even one second that anybody's who played football knows what it means to be a soldier.

And I'm still waiting for a response on where the need to defend this Punk comes from. Particularly when some of us are so quick to string our own players up for so much less.