Re: Bird On The Field -- Spearfish Lake Tales

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

Subject: Re: Bird On The Field

Author:
Arthur Keith

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 15:14:56 04/22/15 Wed
In reply to: Captain Sarcastic 's message, "Bird On The Field" on 03:09:31 04/20/15 Mon

>Your latest episode has ex-football players talking
>about revenge. In real life, revenge happens, and it
>doesn't matter if the targets of the revenge had
>anything to do with the alleged "violation" of the
>aggrieved football players. I was there for such a
>situation, and I managed to avoid most of the
>violence, but others were not so lucky. Other
>violence I was not able to avoid.
>
>When the Columbine massacre happened, and it turned
>out that the perpetrators were getting even for
>violence done to them, my reaction was "Wow, I didn't
>think of that." High school bullying has had a
>horrific effect on MANY people, and only basic decency
>has kept the victims from killing their tormentors.
>Do not expect the people who have been beaten and
>tormented to avoid extreme violence. Rifles and
>shotguns do not respect strength and violent
>tendencies. Your story has retribution against
>bullies that was not deadly. In real life, I was a
>few minutes away from extreme violence (another story
>of yours has that, but with an intervention that I
>didn't get).
>
>You can write your story any way you want, but just
>understand -- the football players in your story are
>one violent act from causing extreme hardship, and
>they are one violent act from being killed. Several
>football players from my past avoided death ... and
>they will never know how close they came.

As a retired teacher I often wished to see the school system do away with all competetive sports. Most of the football and basketball players I have met are bully's and are getting away with things no other student can. And they are often given made up grades so that they can continue to play. When I taught at one southern university we attracted on basketball player for a northern state with a high school diploma who actually could not read a single sentence.
School should be for education, not for playing some stupid game. And only the school system get benefits from it as they collect whatever money is spend by parents and fans.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> [> Subject: Re: Bird On The Field
Author: Rob [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 19:33:37 04/26/15 Sun Personally I can see a classroom building being put up where once was a football field. Of course, I would consider that the reason that space had become available was that a new football stadium was built in another location. Rob