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EPGAH -> RE: Hip-hop culture hurting NFL (10/18/2007 2:47:00 PM)
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Read the article, it's hilarious, but it DOES have a few good truths in it that might even apply AWAY from the gridiron!
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ORIGINAL: The Article
I'm sure when we look up 10 years from now and 50 percent — rather than 70 percent — of NFL rosters are African-American, some Al Sharpton wannabe is going to blame the decline on a white-racist plot.
Race is not the determining factor when it comes to having a good or bad attitude. Culture is.
Hip hop is the dominant culture for black youth. In general, music, especially hip hop music, is rebellious for no good reason other than to make money. Rappers and rockers are not trying to fix problems. They create problems for attention.
That philosophy, attitude and behavior go against everything football coaches stand for. They're in a constant battle to squash rebellion, dissent and second opinions from their players.
What we're witnessing today are purposeless, selfish acts of buffoonery. Sensible people have grown tired of it. Football people are recognizing it doesn't contribute to a winning environment.
And even the Peanut Gallery have an insightful comment when they're not too busy calling FOX News racist:
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Great article, it is true what Whitlock says and I think the BLEEP these players pull on the sidelines needs to stop, I wish I could get paid millions to act like a jerk and have a job that millions of others would do for millions less and enjoy the game for the game. These players need to remember why they play in the first place.
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It all starts in the over-exposure these players get in college and sometimes, high school. I'm still amazed that almost every community shows high school football games on TV. These players are thrust into the spotlight way too early. They have things handed to them that the Jim Brown's and Walter Payton's had to earn in the past. College Football is a joke. The money that TV feeds these programs is way out of hand. When NBC gave Notre Dame an exclusive contract, I stopped watching or caring. Teach these athletes the value of winning and losing and being a team player first, not how to get the most camera time.
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Touche, i think Whitlock hit the mark exactly. Its really been a developing issue for some time now, and what people see to be happening now is the results. Discipline is sacrificed for talent and talent is like a check waiting to be cashed for NFL teams. This type of discipline starts early. How many people notice the social changes as early as high school when football players already begin to set themselves apart from the rest. Its like a new breed, if your not a celebrity your an NFL player, meaning highly hip-hop influenced.
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Couldn't agree more. If a white person had written this article it would have been labeled racist. Though in this regaurd there have been many model black players such as Barry Sanders, & Earl Campbell. It seems to me that the black athlete is holding themselves back with all this shinanigans, and blaiming white America. These stupid players are setting the example for future black athletes, so I see no end in sight.
That's the important ones, over 170 PAGES of Comments, and judging by the first page, more than half are single-word answers, or "Look at me, I'm first", or cries of what a "sellout" he is...For pointing out that these particular blacks make clowns OF THEMSELVES, rather than wait for the White Conspiracy [;)] to do it for them!
As to Hip-Hop culture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop_culture
Basically, a predominantly black anti-establishment, overabundance of gold-colored "bling", and excessive use of expletives and distortions of words as if drunk...Basically, think of what people stereotype rappers as![;)]
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