Don’t read this article today, but save for tomorrow

Just my opinion, and I totally understand if I get flamed for it.

You can simultaneously honor the legacy of someone that passed, while also recognizing that there are ways to prevent such an accident moving forward. I 100% am a believer in learning from others mistakes, rather than having to learn that lesson by making that mistake on my own.

This article seems to have no point except to cherry-pick ugly sports headlines from the last couple years to say how horrible football is. Or maybe that the people that make up the football landscape are horrible people… A lot of the things he criticized were a stretch. For example, an unsportsmanlike TD celebration. That stuff has always been present in football. Same with fights. I don’t have data to back it up, but I perceive it’s actually much less prevalent nowadays. The football field has recently been a big platform for social activism, so it’s a ridiculous point to say that football is degenerating to ruins because of a few examples of repugnant behavior.

An then this excerpt really made me upset.

On Christmas Day, Ty Jordan, Utah’s 19-year-old star freshman running back, was shot dead in what was described as a self-inflicted accident. But that’s hardly the point. He wasn’t accidentally in possession of a loaded gun.

When he says “that’s hardly the point”, then what is the point? The tone of the article seems to infer that Ty is a criminal or a bad person for having a weapon. I understand if you want to make a point of gun safety or even to try to push for gun reform. However, using a tragic accidental shooting with no additional details released about the situation is a s**tty way to push your narrative about how amoral or unethical football is.

Fill me in if my reading comprehension is poor, but I’m struggling to understand what message he is trying to send.

I mean soccer is the most popular sport in brazil, and people get murdered everyday there. Coincidence?????

Better idea: Don’t read this article. It’s muckraking crap.

Very poorly written IMO.  Everything is taken out of context.

You could truthfully write that bad things happen at church and they do.  But, you need to put it in context.  I hate this kind of article because it does not tell the other side of the story.

This happens every day on the national news.  They only share with you the narrative they would like to advance.

Its a tabloid, enough said.

Don’t read this article today, but also don’t read it tomorrow, the next or any day actually. 

Don’t read this article today, but also don’t read it tomorrow, the next or any day actually. 

Bad article. Looks like a writer looking for clicks. Irresponsible to throw Ty Jordan into this.

Quick grab the mallet!