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Message: [QUOTE="Twiztid, post: 2499525, member: 2144"] [b]Re: Tamou Done For DUI[/b] They are role models as they are in the public eye and kids do look up to players and want to be just like them when they grow up. To say just because they play a sport professionally makes them any less of a role model is stupid. Sport is still a business and brand at the end of the day and with the money you can earn (if you are good enough) is just another avenue that kids look as a future for them. You generalise players being uneducated. Most players now days come through the NYC programme that has a lot of development and involvement in secondary studies, before they reach first grade and players who missed the NYC programme would be involved in studies to be prepared for life after football. We will never be like the NFL in regards to the pathway that players will make to the top level of having to go through a college league. In the last 10 years I would assume we would have almost an 100% raise in the amount of players who have some sort of secondary study playing first grade. Don't forget the players that also have trades. Players have media training to prepare for the spotlight and the shark like nature that questions can come their way by journos. Media managers can only protect the players so much, some players are generally shy and only enjoy playing footy and hate the media spotlight. I don't have kids but even when I was a kid, I had my role models outside of my parents and some played professional sports. I don't see it as problem. No, I drive for a living (at the moment). If I lost my licence, I lose my job. It doesn't matter if it was because of drink driving or speeding offences. I would be told by my boss "sorry, there is no work available for you because you have no licence. Call me back when you get your licence back and we will see what is available". This isn't quitting, this is getting fired. To stay on topic. I think the NRL need to look at previous off field alcohol issues (Myles and Carney) and give Tamou a similar punishment. If he misses game 2 because of it then so be it. [/QUOTE]

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