Thanks Dad, I miss you.

Heroes

When I was younger, our sports heroes were 60% athlete, 35% role model, and 5% endorsers...My how things have changed...now its 50% athlete, 45% endorser, and 5% role model (and those are the better ones) What happened to the heroes of yesterday. The ones that played as much for the love of the game as for the money. The ones that were glad to freely sign an autograph or visit a dying child. Those heroes are gone, they onl;y continue to exist in the minds of those that remember what is was like to look up to a sports figure and want to be like them. Todays sports 'stars' are whiney spoiled brats who operate with an air of entitlement and often outside the law. Between drugs, attitude, callousness, and the entire gamut of social ills that one might think they would be immune to, they leave us....well....wanting. I for one am blessed. I was never really into it as much as some of my fellow hunter-gatherers. So it is not a stretch for me to throw my hands up and be done with the whole lot of them. They all need to be reminded in some Christmas carol way that there are young impressionables out there longing to be ...just like them.