Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Phelps Doesn't Receive Fair Treatment
Here's what is getting at me today. We have, Michael Phelps, the most celebrated Olympic athlete of our time. He's smokes some marijuana out of a bong at a party. What happens? He has to apologize to the entire nation and most of the world for his actions. He's 23 years old. He's won 14 gold medals. Let him do what he wants. If myself or someone like me, a regular college kid, got caught smoking at a party, what happens? We get a slap on the wrist or whatever, little in the way of being reprimanded. I think it's unfair that he has to go so far out of his way to apologize to people who don't even really care because he is seen as a "role model". Let him live his life. Is he not allowed to go out with his friends and have a couple of drinks now? I realize that big time athletes lose some of their freedoms when they are in the limelight. Why do we have to scrutinize every move they make? Some of the guys are carrying guns around and doing things that we should be concerned about, but Phelps going out and having a little fun? Why should he be sorry for anything? I am personally apologizing to him for all of the pain we put him through in this whole ordeal.
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Not fair treatment? You have got to be kidding me. Where I come from, we expect respectable behaivor from everyone, and especially our role models. He committed a crime and you think that having to issue an apology is too much? No, its not fair that athletes have to be role models, but that's how it is. People have a right to be upset with his actions. If what he did was ok then it wouldn't be illegal. It really shows that you are a young college student whose only cares are partying and passing the next exam.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying what Phelps did wasn't wrong, however to have to make a national apology is going overboard. It is illegal, but Phelps isn't even being charged with anything. When public opinion becomes our new court of law, let me know. Then, when he's found guilty, he can owe us an apology.
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