12-06-2008, 01:16 AM
It's been my observation.....
Thugs like Plaxico Burress tend to bring these things on themselves. So many star athletes come from disadvantage homes. Often with a dedicated single mother. For whatever reason they never learn to disassociate themselves from the hangers on. They have a "my posse' attitude that always seems to get them in trouble. You see it from early in their carreer. They go off to college and hang with the wrong people.
Their talent propels them into the pros with lots of money and lots of temptations that most are ill equipped to handle. Then never seem to get it that bad things happen at 2:30 AM around drunk people in the wrong part of town.
Thank goodnes for Derrick Brooks, Warrick Dunn, Ronde and Tiki Barber, Michael Alstot, John Lynch (can you tell I'm a Bucks fan?) and many other great NFL stars who give their time and talent helping others and setting wonderful role models for young boys.
Thugs like Plaxico Burress tend to bring these things on themselves. So many star athletes come from disadvantage homes. Often with a dedicated single mother. For whatever reason they never learn to disassociate themselves from the hangers on. They have a "my posse' attitude that always seems to get them in trouble. You see it from early in their carreer. They go off to college and hang with the wrong people.
Their talent propels them into the pros with lots of money and lots of temptations that most are ill equipped to handle. Then never seem to get it that bad things happen at 2:30 AM around drunk people in the wrong part of town.
Thank goodnes for Derrick Brooks, Warrick Dunn, Ronde and Tiki Barber, Michael Alstot, John Lynch (can you tell I'm a Bucks fan?) and many other great NFL stars who give their time and talent helping others and setting wonderful role models for young boys.