This week’s analysis is about the lack of ethical behavior within professional sports by SOME players. It seems to be more and more prevalent in the news about players and sometimes coaches or management engaging in not only unethical but sometimes illegal or illicit behaviors.
I think that some explanation for this type of behavior comes from them being treated like they are gods because they “happen” to be good at a sport. Our society has put so much importance on this talent that they are looked up to, sought after and sometimes revered because of a physical ability. They grow up being treated differently (sometimes better) in high school and college, then when they get to the professional level they think they have a sense of "entitlement”. They feel they are above others in many ways and lately it seems they also think they are above the law.
Although the fact that they think this way and a lot of it is caused by outside sources, it is even more disturbing to listen to what people write or say about their behaviors on TV and in other mediums. They seem to skim over or touch just slightly on the fact that something that was done is “against the law”! Why are they given the opportunity to get by with something that anyone else in the normal world would be tried and possibly jailed for? I don’t think because of a completion, home run or scoring stat gives them the right to completely ignore the laws of the land.
Why isn’t society more concerned with scientists, teachers, astronauts, clergy or countless other professions – people that don’t get as much publicity for their deeds, but are surely accomplishing a heck of a lot more for the world than a quarterback or a pitcher.
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