A few weeks ago I heard a caller on a Minnesota Vikings radio program complain about quarterback Christian ponder getting engaged during the football season. I wonder what that caller thinks of Ponder following through with that engagement with his marriage to ESPN reported Samantha Steele earlier this week. During the football season fercryinoutloud! With two weeks remaining in a playoff push Ponder gets engaged and married! What the hell is wrong with this guy? Where's his priorities? It seems that fans, in general, see football players as action figures that are hauled out on game days. These fans don't see football players as fathers, husbands, sons and brothers that are trying to find that perfect Christmas gift for a loved one. They don't see football players as a person that craves a cheeseburger after practice. They don't see football players as human.
Football players are human. They make every day decisions like the rest of us. There isn't a time of the year that getting engaged is closed to us. Why should there be with football players? If one of us took off on a weekend to marry our dearly beloved no one would would blink an eye if we were back to work on Monday. NFL players have a different weekend than common folk during the football season. Nearly all are busy on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday usually make up the weekend for the NFL crowd. Ponder acknowledged that by darting off this past Monday to marry his gal. He was back to work on Wednesday. Their Wednesday would be our Monday. When a football player is facing a life changing decision he shouldn't have to check with us. He also shouldn't have to put it off until the season is over. Football players have a life beyond the game that they play. They may play that game for our entertainment but the rest of their week should be their own. They're only human. Just like the rest of us.
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