GOOD FOR GOODELL — I.V. Editorial Comment
Investigative Voice SUNDAY OPINION: COMMISSIONER CENSURES QUARTERBACK - Takes bold step toward ‘a higher standard’
By —Alan Z. Forman Sunday, 25 April 2010
ROLE MODELS BY DEFAULT
Like it or not, celebrities are role models. Fans identify with them, teenagers emulate them. Children long to grow up to be like them. They are praised, loved, envied, glorified. Virtually everyone wants to trade places with them and to be their friend. They can associate with thugs, shoot themselves in the foot; torture dogs, cheat on their spouses, abuse their mates. Grammy winners run back to them, fans forgive them, franchises re-hire them. For some, they can do no wrong. Some of them can even get away with allegedly raping their dates.
Not so this week.
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell has made what will no doubt be considered by many fans to be a highly unpopular move: suspending two-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for six games, at a cost to the star player of more than $2.8 million in salary. After all…
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Read the entire commentary by Mr. Forman here: http://www.investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3823:editorial&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44
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