Vick reinstated conditionally, may play by Week 6

**Edwina's Secretary** · 07-30-2009, 12:37 PM

Every occupation - professional athlete, actors and actresses, lawyers, business people, teachers, police, politicians, doctors, astronauts, soldiers - there are some good and there are some not so good.

If we need role models to admire it should be for their accomplishments - not their occupation.

I would suggest Sonia Sotomayor might be a good one...

**Lady's Human** · 07-30-2009, 01:57 PM

Congrats, ES.

You finally found a way to bring politics into an otherwise politics-free sports thread.

*golf clap*

**Daisy and Delilah** · 07-30-2009, 02:25 PM

Sports figures as role models does seem to be in a distant past. Way back when sports figures were downright good people and known for what they had accomplished, Not just for their occupation. Today, they make way too much money and many of them have little or nothing that makes them a person worthy of being called a role model.

I think alot of the "role model" persona was given by people in the media. Years ago, we possibly looked up to people because they were well known and someone we could use as examples for our children. If your son liked baseball, Mickey Mantle was a great guy to aspire to be.

Any person can be a role model. Alot of ideal people for that are at the end of ABC News on Fridays. The Person of the Week. Really fine people.

Richard::::::you're cracking me up as always!!