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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 2454489, member: 1992"] broncos4life....the last line are your words. I was not referring to my self. Surprised you did not recognize them as you had just written them. Porthoz, you wrote 'Your premise that someone should be praised and rewarded for having talent, regardless of his behavior off the field, is morally reprehensible'...........wtf...when did I write that, or even infer that ???? Truly, talk about drawing a long bow. Anarchists indeed !! That I should want all people treated as I would like myself to be treated is so offensive to you. How noble of you Porthoz you filthy druggo. You should be held up to ridicule for your reprehensible drug use. Freely admitting to the same behaviors as Johns and then, having the temerity to justify it because you 'worked hard'..lol..... No,I don't actually think you are a filthy druggo and low life but in all honesty how can you throw mud ???? The elite athlete does not embody the goals of most people in actual fact, far from it. Most peoples goal is firstly to be happy, then to make others happy(and by extension,loved/liked) to be successful generally(not specifically in the narrow field of sport) and hopefully pass on their genes through their children. They are the most common goals of people throughout the world. The fact that so many get fixated on elite athletes is a sad indictment of a society that is misguided. An elite athlete generally has a very narrow set of skills honed to perfection for use in a very narrow and fixed set of parameters. There are many people who are worthy of admiration and I'd point to someone, now departed, as a much greater role model. He was Fred Hollows. Worshiping someone who, for a very short space of time can play a sport very well is close to crazy. Expecting them to behave differently to all other humans, in every other field that humans enter, is nuts. I'll say it once more. I just want people treated equally and with total disregard for their sporting prowess. Hardly an anarchist point of view. [/QUOTE]

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