What's wrong with sports is what's wrong with society

Hello again, blogfans!

I just read that the NFL has reinstated the enigmatic Ricky Williams (here's the link to the article); that after his starring role in the new blockbuster hit "Harry Pothead and the Stoned Sorcerer." Yes, it's the same Ricky who's failed not one, not two, not even three or four, but FIVE drug tests, sending himself into the relative oblivion of the CFL and losing an incredible amount of cash in the meantime.

What's wrong with Ricky is the same thing that's wrong with society - if you can run with a football, dunk a basketball, hit a baseball 500 feet, mumble rhyming words in rhythm, ride a bike really fast, memorize words from a screenplay and pretend like you mean them, or do just about anything else that will be visible to the general public, you're pretty much excused from the moral compass and/or legal statutes that govern the rest of us. Frankly, I'm sick of it.

I set a standard for making my basketball team. I told them that they MUST be passing their classes for the 2nd 6-week's grading period if they were to be considered. I checked and double checked every day for two weeks to ensure that no one who was failing was being considered. Yesterday, when the final grades came out, two of the guys who had been passing everything showed up on the report with failing grades. The grades were supposed to be final as of noon Tuesday, so when I checked on Wednesday morning, THAT should have been the final report, so I posted the roster with both of these guys on it. Naturally, they were excited! Yet, when I checked once more yesterday evening, both of these guys were on it with failing grades in one class each, so I had to pull them aside and tell them that they did not make the team after all because they were not passing. One of them was devastated, but SOMEONE has to hold their feet to the fire! If someone starts making excuses for them NOW, where will it end? Frankly, I think I'm doing them a favor. Unless we want society to be one big "rules don't apply to me" club where chaos reigns supreme, someone has got to stand up for law and order and stick to their guns when a rule has been established.

If someone had done that for Ricky, maybe "Harry Pothead and the Chamber of Whores" would never have been made.