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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 138886, member: 173"] Different spin...there are hundreds of athletes in the NFL/NBA/NCAA/etc that do things like this every day - so you're right that there's really nothing out of the ordinary here. The sad thing is that as a culture we focus on "bad acts" by famous people and create the perception that the way to success is to be a self-absorbed, arrogant douchbag. It's bothersome to me that this is being made into a big deal...because we don't here about things like this enough. It may be we retain the stories of unacceptable behavior better than good stories like this; prior to this post if you'd asked me about this story six months from now I'd probably have forgotten it; if he'd punched a girl I guarantee I'd remember it. I think I'd rather we be minimizing this because we could immediately think of dozens of similar acts by athletes. [/QUOTE]