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Subject: Bird On The Field Author: Captain Sarcastic [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 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. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Bird On The Field Author: Arthur Keith [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:14:56 04/22/15 Wed >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.

[> [> 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

[> Subject: Re: Bird On The Field Author: Mike [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:42:35 04/24/15 Fri I like the college Wes has that put the new science building on the former football field. More schools should do that. Every time there is a football game and they introduce the players they all state what college they went to. I get irritated because each of these players took a place that should have gone to someone who could use the education for a career that uses it. You only have to look at some of the players to know that they could never have gotten through classes without help. That degree in history or physed sure comes in handy, doesn't it. With the price of college growing each year they still build new stadiums with money from struggling students. The most hypocritical statements are when someone goes to the NFL or NBA before graduating from college. This guy is wasting a year of college to go pro. What a crock.

[> [> Subject: Re: Bird On The Field Author: Leo Kerr [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:40:53 04/24/15 Fri >I like the college Wes has that put the new science >building on the former football field. More schools >should do that. > this is one of those little ways that lets us know that Wes is really writing Fantasy. Not even fiction, but fantasy, I'm afraid.. Personally, I hadn't paid that much attention to school sports; in my high school, in the four years I was there, I think my varsity football team won.. a game? Maybe. We did better in soccer, sweeping State at least once, and one of our players went to the Barcelona Olympics on the US team. A couple of years later, waiting for class to start, the professor was BSing with us, and made the comment when he moved east, he looked for a school without football. He disapproved of "the class of eleven" that often gets associated with college football.

[> [> Subject: Re: Bird On The Field Author: Robert Moskowitz [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:53:40 05/04/15 Mon I was the high school math tutor for half the football team and cheerleaders. The school had to give me my own 'classroom', as I was working with almost 30 struggling students. They were my bodyguards from the other toughs at school. There were times where I stood there and took the punches, knowing that my attackers would be laid out that night. this was in '66. I knew I was going on to college and they would be working over at Fisher Body or Chase Brass... >I like the college Wes has that put the new science >building on the former football field. More schools >should do that. > >Every time there is a football game and they introduce >the players they all state what college they went to. >I get irritated because each of these players took a >place that should have gone to someone who could use >the education for a career that uses it. You only have >to look at some of the players to know that they could >never have gotten through classes without help. That >degree in history or physed sure comes in handy, >doesn't it. > >With the price of college growing each year they still >build new stadiums with money from struggling >students. The most hypocritical statements are when >someone goes to the NFL or NBA before graduating from >college. This guy is wasting a year of college to go >pro. What a crock.

[> Subject: Re: Bird On The Field Author: Greg B. [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:11:10 04/30/15 Thu >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." Interesting. My first reaction was "somebody's getting back at the jocks". I was never the victim of high school bullying, I'm too big to be an easy target, but I saw enough to be well aware of what goes on.