How are professional football players pschological, economic, and political pawns, or "peices of meat," serving the great god greed?
2007-04-30 12:24:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
~They sell their bodies like any entertainer or whore. But pawns? Seems to me they do it voluntarily and, the very good ones at least, make more in a single game than you, your children and your grandchildren will make in your combined lifetimes. Or would you have them stay in the ghetto working part time minimum wage jobs and pushing pills to school kids or knocking over liquor stores and little old ladies. Hey, if games give you a ticket out and a grossly inordinate piece of the pie, why not play them? I suppose you are going to work for a living for the joy of the labor and not to earn a paycheck, and I know you don't plan to try to sell your services for the maximum dollars, but because the numbers are smaller, I suppose that doesn't qualify as greed.
2007-04-30 12:36:19 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes alot of courage to go do anything again that resulted in you being seriously injured. If you were a rock climber and you fell 15 feet and broke both legs...wouldn't you be scared the next time you decided to go rock climbing? It is in the back of a football player's mind that the same injury can happen again, and this fear can inhibit a player from playing at his full potential. The courageous ones can put that fear behind them and go lay everything on the line for the game again.
2016-04-01 02:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well not necessarily. If you love the sport you are going to go all the way! These people are competitive and love what they do. I don't think its fair to judge them so harshly. After all they did work really hard for it. The ones that get paid well are 1 in tens of millions of people.
(although soccer stars sometimes barely make a living.)
2007-04-30 13:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by The Phat Whale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say yes,because of the impact they have on all levels especially to the young and impressionable,(teens and younger).
There are so many examples one would only have to look at their television,or read the paper,or access the public media in any fashion on any given day or time to see the impact.
2007-04-30 12:35:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone in entertainment, including football players, play the role you describe.
2007-04-30 13:39:42 · answer #5 · answered by Wait a Minute 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it really is take your pick time, vanity, money, fame, gluttony etc etc
2007-04-30 12:53:19 · answer #6 · answered by kissaled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money and fame.
2007-04-30 12:27:49 · answer #7 · answered by lemon cheese 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋