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Heroes
Dec 28, 2008 12:02:01 GMT -6
Post by indian1 on Dec 28, 2008 12:02:01 GMT -6
I don't need reasons to have heroes.
Woody Hayes may have been an SOB but at least in Ohio he was OUR SOB. Like I said before if a guy seems to good to be true he probably is. I can admire someone if I know is faults. I have faults too. Its easier to relate.
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Heroes
Dec 28, 2008 15:56:11 GMT -6
Post by mariner42 on Dec 28, 2008 15:56:11 GMT -6
Delta... delta... delta... You cut me deep! Khal...you know I have nothing but respect for you! I just think that we have to be careful about what brophy talked about...the idea of "hero worship". In the cae of MLK, Ralph Abernathy did not make excuses for King's infidelities...he simply tried to explain why King (and other members of the SLCL, Abernathy included, for that matter) made some of the personal decisions that they did. And I can respect that. I just remember being a kid in high school and learning about "great men"...men like King, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington..etc, etc. The way we learned about these people was essentially the "hero worship" that brophy talked about. We learned that these men were these monumental figures of righteousness who never did anything wrong. That is why it was tough for me later in my life when I found out that these men had a lot of flaws. I wasn't prepared for that. Can we separate the good things that people did from their personal failings? I think that we can. If anything, when we talk about men like King, it makes them more HUMAN when we also discuss their personal failings. In other words, men like King are still able to achieve a measure of greatness despite the fact that they have many of the same flaws as the rest of us. If I'm reading you right, and with my English major I damn well better be, then I believe we're in agreement. I like all the points you made here coach.
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Heroes
Dec 31, 2008 9:02:09 GMT -6
Post by rbush on Dec 31, 2008 9:02:09 GMT -6
Thanks for all the great discussion and ideas coaches. It's been incredibly helpful and this is going to work much better because of it. We are definitely going to talk about these men's flaws and how they've done/do great things despite them. The list we've made looks like this.
1. Tony Romo/Service-Humility 2. Tony Dungy/Principles 3. MLK Jr/Attitude 4. Pat Tillman/Sacrifice 5. Muhammad Ali & Jaime Escalante/Work Ethic 6. Myron Rolle/Being more than "just a jock" 7. Warrick Dunn/Compassion 8. Peyton Manning/Clutch (we looked at Rice, but think the kids will identify with Manning better) 9. Brad Paisley/Enjoying what you're doing (we're a very rural community, 90%+ listen to country) 10. Kris Hogan of Grapevine Faith/What all of these traits look like when they're put together.
Thanks again coaches, and feel free to offer comments on the list.
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