Football Player Role Models?

Question

How important is it to you that a football player be a good role model?

(my opinion only)
To me there is alot of good and bad in the NFL and I think it is more of the job of a parent to help there children in this subect.

whats your take? is it about being a good role model...or is this about winning a championship?

Answer 1

i believe you are right..it is the parents responsibility not the athlete. All this mumbo jumbo about people mad at let's say pacman Jones is bugging me..Yes someone like him did do a bad thing..but to me that doesn't translate to on the football field...i mean we are watching a game!!! not COPS or the people's court...if a parent thinks that a certain player is a bad role model then explain that to your child..it ain't that all the Dallas cowboys are bad...just pacman Jones...there is alot of bad going on these days in the NFL...to pacman Jones..to Patriots for cheating...Brett Farve was a pill popper and so fourth....this has to be addressed by the parents..we as adults no what is right and what is wrong...be we also know that the team is there to win championships first!!!

Answer 2

No. A pro football player is called an "even better person" by these sports announcers who seem to be clueless to the violence which is needed to be to play most positions on a pro football team. The fact that a player retires from the NFL without a felony or major misdemeanor conviction or plea is hardly a reason to label them as role models.

Answer 3

Its a parents job to make their kids have good habits you can't blame Ricky Williams if Johnny got caught smoking a joint.



Of course role models are role models should be positive but you got to understand athletes, celebrities, basically famous people are...human.



You can't honestly think that every player in the NFL is/should be morality perfect. Some people want to have sex before marriage, some want to smoke pot, some want to get in bar fights, & some just want to party like they are still a senior in college. If your kid turns out to have a bad habit/additude don;t blame the role model blame the guardian(s) for not being a got damn guardian. But don't get me wrong a good role model helps (LT is a uber good role model IMO)

Answer 4

Agree parents should be the role models, but if the sport was nothing but a bunch of jail avoiding crack heads ....you can see the problem with that. No sports figure or television personality needs to be a role model....but if they want to earn the big bucks that are associated with being watched by the masses - you gotta figure quite a few people have kids and it's best to have a "G" rating.

Answer 5

You are 100 percent correct. Parents need to be role models; not athletes. Although children can be easily influenced by what they see on television, etc., I don't think the next time we pick up the newspaper and see a shooting at a strip club, we'll say "It's Pac Man Jones' fault!" The NFL is a reflection of our society; not the cause of what is happening.

Answer 6

I think a player should;d be a good role model to a certain extent.. I don't think people should bash Brady for having a kid with someone he did not marry or Payton for selling himself for commercials but they should not act like Pac-man or Vick either... If you know what I mean.

Answer 7

It's kinda important, football player's should be able live their live's, But there wouldn't be football if it were'nt for fan's, million's of people tune in and buy ticket's to watch them play, and many are impressionable kid's. So no it's not okay for R.moss to get high and run over cop's, and not get suspended for a single game, or say thing's like "I play when I wanna play". It's not okay for mckinney to get drunk, and beat the hell out of a bouncer with a steel pipe.

They don't have to be saint's, but they need to act like professional's. They are paid million's, and they represent America's athlete's!

Answer 8

Im not sure. I have to put myself in their position. If I could be a star athelete by staying to training and puting aside family i would do it in a heart beat. But then again I can imagine being a child not being able to spend time with my dad because of his job I would hate it.

Answer 9

i think a little of both goes a long way.



take troy aikman for example.



3 time superbowl champion, but more importantly, he did a lot of charity work for kids. he was actually fined one year because he left the pro bowl early to do a fundraising event