I realize this would require total overhaul of the system, but

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My feelings regarding the whole uproar of giving a football player who tested positive for a banned substance a rookie of the year award (twice) can be summed up by this comment:

I don't think what Cushing did was right, but when will everyone learn that we need to stop putting NFL players on a pedestal as our "role-models"? Throwing, running and tackling (even chemically enhanced) does not make you a good person last time I checked

OK, no more football for the next three months.

No doubt there will be plenty of tennis wankery to discuss instead.

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I've never seen that before! That's awesome, though, thanks.

Another comment on the thread that I agreed with was: "I've said it before and I will say it again: raise your own damn kids. Don't rely on the NFL or, for Christ's sake, the Associated Press, to deliver the messages to your kids you should be giving them yourselves. If you talk to you kids about PED's and pay attention to what is going on in their lives (why did johnny gain 15 pounds last month? and what's with all the acne?) You shouldn't worry about what bad role models NFL players are. If you were worth half a damn as a parent, your kids role model would be YOU."

I live in Nebraska, so... and my mother watched tennis when I was little. It's all about indoctrination, sports-watching.

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You're welcome.

I'm leaning more to soccer because it's become more popular down South. Kids who wouldn't otherwise go out for any other sport will show up in *droves* for soccer tryouts. My lil boy has done rec soccer. Lil girl does dance but has shown more interest in soccer (and kept the ball from dear ol' Daddy the other day like a BEAST). That said, she's expressed interest in rec soccer for next year. I was just a martial artist growing up, so all of my sports activities leaned more toward the striking-from-the-shadows-and-the-dark like a ninja.

Well, not quite, but close. ;)

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Interesting, I wonder why (the soccer appeal)? Demographics-related?

I was absolutely awful at all team sports - the only thing I could even vaguely do was lacrosse - and of course I hated to play all sports for that reason. The only P.E. course I ever enjoyed was a self-defense class in college. I was one of those badly adjusted, angry kids, though (in case that's not still obvious). I was also the only one actually paying attention to the game at high school football games.