What they do off of the playing field should not concern me and how I live my life. Out of all the different people and families I know, I do not know of any that live there lives exactly the same way. Whether it be their religion, size of the family, ethnic background, etcetera, they all live different lives. If one of us wants to emulate the lives of professional athletes so much, why don’t we copy what our neighbors do and title them as “role models?” Athletes are no different then the people we live and work with besides the fact that they can play a sport well. They breathe, eat, and shower in just the same way. So why should we try to copy and live our lives around what they do when they aren’t paid to be good and living life.

Looking at the incidents that have happened over the past few years, and throughout the years we have had professional sports, athletes behavior off of the playing field has only seem to have gotten worse. As a huge sports fan, I have to ask myself if there is any reason whatsoever that professional athletes should be role models? I think the answer is perhaps, but only within a limited scope. I hope to emulate the athletes in my professional life as they perform in their chosen sport. If I could execute at school like Pete Sampras does on grass, I would be pretty successful. If I could have a day like the day when Michael Jordan scored 63 points in the playoffs against the Celtics, like the day a 6'1" point guard named Allen Iverson put his team on his back and won the first game of the NBA finals in Los Angeles, or like the night an 18 year old freshman named Michael Vick almost single-handedly carried the Virginia Tech Hokies to a national championship, that would be a good day. That is the only manner in which I wish to emulate the professional athlete. When a child sees Michael Irvin arrested for drug possession or Steve Howe testing positive for illegal substances, and then they see these same people walk away from their crimes unscathed

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