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<blockquote data-quote="AmishMafia" data-source="post: 448712" data-attributes="member: 2846"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tms Rmn'">People change, or more accurately, people reveal themselves in time when they achieve a level of power, or in Brett’s case – perceived power. There is nothing wrong with having sports heroes. There is a problem when these people are put on golden pedestals that they can never do any wrong or the image is somehow made permanent in the minds of fans. Somehow because he was a great football player, he must be a great person that we must honor. Brett is human. He is not a very good human. His actions have revealed a person who is controlling, temperamental, spoiled, vindictive, perverse and megalomaniacal. At one time he appeared to be a faithful and humble man who just really loved playing the game. I, and many of my fellow fans, loved him for that. The bad characteristics, however, has led me to change my opinion of him. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tms Rmn'">I really don’t care what he did before. I refuse to hold him in anything but the lowest esteem because of who he is. It isn’t what he has done, it is about who he is. Who he is has been revealed by his actions. It’s not personal. It’s not my vindictiveness. It is because he is a bad person.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tms Rmn'">At one time Sadam Hussein was a great guy. Believe it or not. He began a literacy program – that was a model for the entire middle east. One of his tactics was the empowerment of woman. Mostly unheard of in Muslim cultures – Sadam felt that getting woman involved would bring greater power towards getting children to read. Sadam created a public school system available for every child. Sadam won international awards for his educational programs from ENESCO. Then he got really powerful and had thousands of political opponents tourtured and killed as well as gassing hundreds of thousands of his own people when he felt threatened. Can we agree that he was a bad person regardless of his efforts with education for children?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tms Rmn'">It’s okay to change your opinions on people.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tms Rmn'">It’s not forgetting the ‘good times’. It’s a re-evaluation based on additional information.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yep - this is where we as Packer fans have come. Comparing Brett to some of the worst people in history.</p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tms Rmn'">(okay ThnxJackVainisi – you get the Benedict Arnold analogy credit – and I am going to now lay claim to the Sadam Hussein analogy)</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AmishMafia, post: 448712, member: 2846"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tms Rmn]People change, or more accurately, people reveal themselves in time when they achieve a level of power, or in Brett’s case – perceived power. There is nothing wrong with having sports heroes. There is a problem when these people are put on golden pedestals that they can never do any wrong or the image is somehow made permanent in the minds of fans. Somehow because he was a great football player, he must be a great person that we must honor. Brett is human. He is not a very good human. His actions have revealed a person who is controlling, temperamental, spoiled, vindictive, perverse and megalomaniacal. At one time he appeared to be a faithful and humble man who just really loved playing the game. I, and many of my fellow fans, loved him for that. The bad characteristics, however, has led me to change my opinion of him. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tms Rmn]I really don’t care what he did before. I refuse to hold him in anything but the lowest esteem because of who he is. It isn’t what he has done, it is about who he is. Who he is has been revealed by his actions. It’s not personal. It’s not my vindictiveness. It is because he is a bad person.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tms Rmn]At one time Sadam Hussein was a great guy. Believe it or not. He began a literacy program – that was a model for the entire middle east. One of his tactics was the empowerment of woman. Mostly unheard of in Muslim cultures – Sadam felt that getting woman involved would bring greater power towards getting children to read. Sadam created a public school system available for every child. Sadam won international awards for his educational programs from ENESCO. Then he got really powerful and had thousands of political opponents tourtured and killed as well as gassing hundreds of thousands of his own people when he felt threatened. Can we agree that he was a bad person regardless of his efforts with education for children?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tms Rmn]It’s okay to change your opinions on people.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tms Rmn]It’s not forgetting the ‘good times’. It’s a re-evaluation based on additional information.[/FONT][/COLOR] Yep - this is where we as Packer fans have come. Comparing Brett to some of the worst people in history. [COLOR=black][FONT=Tms Rmn](okay ThnxJackVainisi – you get the Benedict Arnold analogy credit – and I am going to now lay claim to the Sadam Hussein analogy)[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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