Comments on: Things Bigger Than Football: Community Service https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/ An Introspective Steelers Site Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:05:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: roxannafirehall https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2074 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 01:14:35 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2074 Fair point. I didn’t mean to equate their conduct. That said, I don’t think his coach thinks he’s doing what a 22 year old QB ought to be doing.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2073 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:30:00 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2073 I can’t go there with you in re Manziel. I do agree that the Hardy and Manziel situations are very different. I think Roxanna’s point was, they are both in their separate ways giving the league a black eye,

But the reason I can’t agree with you on Manziel is, the Browns actually told him he needed to stay in Cleveland during the bye, and extracted a promise from him that he wouldn’t embarrass the team. When confronted by the team afterwards, he lied about where he was and what he was doing.

Whether it was okay for him to be off drinking when it appears he has at least somewhat of a substance abuse problem, you can’t get around the fact that he acted in direct defiance both of what the team asked of him and what he promised, and then he lied about it. At the very least this shows a tremendous lack of judgment.

Okay, he’s 22. But he’s also highly compensated and in the employ of an entity (the NFL) who doesn’t like its players embarrassing them, at least in certain ways. And that was definitely one of those ways. Ben Roethlisberger was suspended for 4 games for embarrassing the league, the only justification they could come up with, and I was all for it.

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]]> By: elpalito https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2072 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:22:34 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2072 Despite the League’s constant flubbing in their attempts at doing good things, individual players throughout the league give a lot back to their communities.

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]]> By: elpalito https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2071 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:20:55 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2071 Though I have to say that lumping a guy like Hardy with Manziel is a bit off. One of them makes actual bad news, the other is being made into fodder by the TMZs of the world for using the bye week for what a bye week is meant to be. This is still a 22 year old being vilified for drinking and acting like a 22 year old.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2070 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:35:40 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2070 You’re so right, Homer, about all of it. And your first sentence explains why I started the series on the team with the Chief. He demonstrates in a very vivid way that we don’t have to be perfect to impact the world around us in a very good way.

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]]> By: Homer J. https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2068 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:23:42 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2068 It all started with the Chief, who was legendary for his kindness and generosity. And the words of another guy who worked at Tree Rivers for a while, and observed, “any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth.” Roberto lived and died by those words.

Rebecca, you touched on why so many of us love our Pittsburgh sports teams. They understand. They get it.

In the words of the poet and songwriter, “the greatest thing, you’ll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved, in return.”

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]]> By: cold_old_steelers_fan https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2067 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:08:01 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2067 This will start to sound repetitive but thank you Momma R. It is good to know there are so many people willing to give their time and money to help others.

Yesterday, as I was driving (and probably boring) a couple of nice people from Whistle Sports Network, I was trying to explain some of the things that mattered most to me about the Pittsburgh Steelers. What a waste of breathe. I should have just told them to come to this site.

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]]> By: roxannafirehall https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/01/things-bigger-than-football-community-service/#comment-2066 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 13:34:20 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3123#comment-2066 Wow.

Thank you, Rebecca. What a wonderful article! We do hear way too much about Hardy, Manziel and many, many more who make the wrong kind of news. While I try to read positive articles, I was unaware of much of the information in your piece. Thank you for this.

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