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Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue's opening address at the "Sport & Society in America" conference Wednesday made a plea for modern-day sports to produce the next generation of society's leaders, with sports so firmly entrenched as a fabric of communities large and small.
But those leaders need to be dedicated to areas other than economics and finance, where so much focus currently is placed on sports. He mentioned leaders and heroes of the past like Wilma Rudolph, Roberto Clemente, and Billie Jean King, among many others, as those whose torches need to be passed for causes that go beyond all the dollars.
Yet it's those very same dollars that must help that happen, keeping youth programs well funded and supported so that sports don't lose the grass-roots levels that help develop and produce the type of leaders he talked about.
"There's a lot of revenue in sport, professionally as well as the collegiate level," said Tagliabue in a briefing with reporter..
Source: Packers.com
