Response KD Sports

Dear tds:


I just read your comments and I would like to note a few observations I have made.

First, I indeed believe the post regarding sports and authority is related to law. That is, particular areas of jurisprudence require citizens of a country/state to adhere to--or have respect for--some type law/individuals administrating the law; essentially, there must be some form of trust between the two, namely the administrator of the law and the citizen adhering to the law. Nonetheless, I was, therefore, in my previous post, simply noting the fact that yes, this takes place in our country--and not only with governments officials but also sports announcers; we trust their [sports announcer’s] opinions when some of them--tony kornhesier in particular--have never played a professional sport. Hence, I was creating a metaphor in my previous post between trusting the figures administering the law, namely the fact that figures administrating the law appear credible and we trust them, and trust in sports announcers, namely the fact that they may not be credible yet most of us trust them.

I would next like to address your statement that I am attacking others. I would first like to note that I am, nowhere in this or previous post, "attacking" another member or members of our class; I was, and am, simply asserting my opinions about what we are learning. And while I assert my opinion, I try relate the material we are learning to events/criteria outside of the classroom (i.e. sports) so that others may also make comments (i.e. yourself) and the material itself becomes richer (i.e. you actually caring about my previous post and thus making a post commenting on my previous post). With that said, I would now like to raise an important fact: I have never called out a particular individual; I never have attacked another individual in our classroom; however, you, in your previous post, have called out another individual; you have attacked another individual.

My case in point with my previous post is the following: It is a tragedy that most Americans can easily name 44 sports figures, yet cannot name the 44 presidents; it is a tragedy that many religiously watch their particular sports team but do not watch the news or follow current events with such fervor; it is a tragedy that sports is the main priority of this country. Now I am not against sports by any means. In fact, I watch the Steelers and Penn State almost every week; however, what I am against is individuals caring more about the Steelers or Penn State than what is going in their own country, their own world. Why is it that when Penn State loses to Iowa everyone is extremely upset but the fact that 40-50 million Americans do not have health care cause the same anger with the same individuals (it might but not the same extent)? Sports are fun, yes. But what matters, what our main priority should be, is the overall well being of the individuals in this world. If we could have the same loyalty, the same fervor, that individuals have toward a particular team toward helping and bettering others, I could only imagine how different a world this would be.