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7/26/2012 11:08:25 AM EST
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All is not fair in football
aby boomers, consequences, fairness, football, Penn State, political correctness, rugby
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Let me start with a disclaimer by saying that I know very little about American Football (or Canadian). I also know little about football politics, or the NCAA.
I am a relative newcomer to North America and one who was raised on a diet of rugby, I find football a difficult game to follow, understand or get excited about. I am sure that had I been exposed to the game and its star sportsmen from an early age I would think differently.
Rugby is the original game played with an oval ball, no protective gear and substitution on the field only in the case of a player being sufficiently injured that he could not continue.(Rugby was a strictly male only sport then, none of these attractive girls in underwear made-for-tv spectacles). Frivolity aside. It says a lot for gender equality in sport that serious women’s rugby, (not the lingerie league) is becoming increasingly popular and well-played. Our Canadian ladies won the 2011 IRB Women’s Rugby 7s World Cup.
Rugby was also a strictly amateur sport in those days, no large pay cheques meant far less prima-donna behaviour from highly paid celebrity athletes.
Although I might not have developed a great interest in football, my long and interesting life has exposed me to enough experiences, good, bad and sometimes absolutely horrifying, that I have developed a sense of what is fair and reasonable. A sense of when punishment is appropriate, likely to serve the course of justice and in the interests of society, or when it seems more likely to serve some political, vindictive or revenue generating agenda.
Despite not being an enthusiastic football fan, it is always exciting to learn of the success of any good sports team, I had certainly heard that Penn State was one of the best college teams and its late coach Joe Paterno one of the most respected in the country. Like most responsible people, I was saddened at the allegations of sexual abuse and the cover-ups thereof that surfaced. These are being dealt with by the justice system and the perpetrators of the abuse deserve all the punishment they are likely to get. It is not my intention to pass any further comment on those incidents.
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