The football season is over and let’s hope that the San Diego Chargers will be good in the off season. “Good” meaning no DUIs, please! It seems like every time I looked at the news, a San Diego Charger player is being charged with a DUI or some other crazy issue. Is it just me, but don’t athletes have a responsibility to be a good role model to the kids who look up to them?
For example, San Diego Chargers’ Cletis Gordon was arrested recently for suspected drunk driving. But Gordon isn’t the only one with a tainted reputation. A few months back there was that incident with Steve Foley. Now Terrance Kiel faces a prison sentence if convicted for possession and transporting of a controlled substance.
Don’t the Chargers know that their actions impact their community?
Some may argue that it doesn’t matter what they do off the field. It’s what they do on the field that counts. As long as they win, right? After all, the Chargers are doing their jobs and they’re doing it pretty darn well this season. However, athletes still have a duty to be upstanding and good citizen role models.
Any thoughts?
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Tiffany Edwards // June 13, 2007 at 9:32 pm |
I’m Cletis’s sister, and I just want you to know that my brother was not drunk. He passed the test, but those crooked cops in San Diego are just trying to go after the Charger players. Cletis is a GREAT role model! If you have been paying attention, Cletis has been on the news and shared personal information about the incident.