Athletic Role models: Good or Bad?
Drugs, fame, and fortune; these words are implicitly related to athletes. Thus due to athletes’ beliefs, actions, and behaviors, athletes are horrible role models. Glorified for their athletic ability, athletes are worshipped wrongly as supernatural ability no matter of other factors outside their profession.
While some athletes are civil and are of good manner, manny fight publicly in a puerile way. Athletes such as Ron Artest, Charles Barkley, and Dez Bryant make it seem okay to fight for something as little as sports. Thus, athletes contribute to the image, “famous athlete did this, so I can do it too.” This factor applies to the use of drugs too. Even though major sports organizations explicitly rule that …show more content…
Athletes like Ray Rice, Josh Gordon, Michael Vick, and Adrian Peterson have done evil things that are very condemned by the majority of people. However, because of these athletes’ status, they were given a loosened sentencing in an iniquity and unfair way. Additionally, because of athlete 's abilities to get away with crimes with little or no punishment gives no reason for other professional athletes or ordinary people to not do the same. Thus, it gives the bad role model image of athletes get away with everything bad so I should strive to be like him. Out of many cases, very few have been convicted to sentencing or a steep enough bail to where they wouldn’t be economically affected. Consequently, this gives what seems correct and justifiable assumption that athletes get away with everything a true and real fact. Because kids are influenced at an early age, seeing a role model beat his girlfriend in an elevator and drag her out by her hair, him hosting dog fights at his mansions, him having moratorium because of drugs, or beating his kids with a switch can really hurt children’s expectations of
Drugs, fame, and fortune; these words are implicitly related to athletes. Thus due to athletes’ beliefs, actions, and behaviors, athletes are horrible role models. Glorified for their athletic ability, athletes are worshipped wrongly as supernatural ability no matter of other factors outside their profession.
While some athletes are civil and are of good manner, manny fight publicly in a puerile way. Athletes such as Ron Artest, Charles Barkley, and Dez Bryant make it seem okay to fight for something as little as sports. Thus, athletes contribute to the image, “famous athlete did this, so I can do it too.” This factor applies to the use of drugs too. Even though major sports organizations explicitly rule that …show more content…
Athletes like Ray Rice, Josh Gordon, Michael Vick, and Adrian Peterson have done evil things that are very condemned by the majority of people. However, because of these athletes’ status, they were given a loosened sentencing in an iniquity and unfair way. Additionally, because of athlete 's abilities to get away with crimes with little or no punishment gives no reason for other professional athletes or ordinary people to not do the same. Thus, it gives the bad role model image of athletes get away with everything bad so I should strive to be like him. Out of many cases, very few have been convicted to sentencing or a steep enough bail to where they wouldn’t be economically affected. Consequently, this gives what seems correct and justifiable assumption that athletes get away with everything a true and real fact. Because kids are influenced at an early age, seeing a role model beat his girlfriend in an elevator and drag her out by her hair, him hosting dog fights at his mansions, him having moratorium because of drugs, or beating his kids with a switch can really hurt children’s expectations of