Cultural Survival Skills

Football Builds Character: Tears of Compassion

In our prissy post-modern new age, football gets a lot of bad press. Yes, if street thugs and criminals are recruited into the game at its college and professional “pinnacle” levels, the reputation will be well deserved.

But if football is played with courage and good sportsmanship, under the training of excellent coaches,  it can be a wonderful source of character development for the young men who play the sport.

If you don’t believe me, or if you think it a game only fit for beasts an bully’s, I challenge you to see the following short video.

If you do believe me, and if you ever played football the right way, you just gotta see this one: You will burst with pride!

http://www.wimp.com/footballplayers/

VTM, 11/29/13

P.S. Thanks to Lee Hornack for sending this to me.

Tags: Football Builds Character, Football Played the Right way, Football Tears of Compassion, Footballs Bad Press, V. Thomas Mawhinney Ph.D., VTM

This entry was posted on November 29, 2013 at 1:31 PM and is filed under Boiling the American Frog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.