ray rice
aaron hernendez
michael vick
shall i keep going?
Ray Lewis and the Cowboys in the 90's?
Let's face it, B's right. These are guys who would never be anything if it wasn't for football. You hear the stories all the time. They have no family values, no father figures and mother's on welfare and other hand out programs. These guys are given an education which is rigged. If you took football or any sport away from most of these guys, they'd be in gangs, jail, dealing drugs or dead.
You don't need to be smart to play football. Yes, you need to learn offensive and defense plays and learn hand signals and what not but that's training, that's not being smart. It's something they have done there entire lives anyway so they are used to it.
Here is an interesting fact:
http://centraltendencies.com/2009/01/college-athletes-sat-iq-scores/
Nationwide, football players average 220 points lower on the SAT than their classmates — and men’s basketball players average seven points less than football players.
A lot of them barely have average IQ's
Wow. That's one way to look at it. .... .....
Yeah. Let's face it. If it weren't football they wouldn't be able to get out of the vicious cycle and make some changes. So let's judge them for what they didn't have growing up, and the awful environments they were raised in.