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Bart I never liked this ****got. Now I hate him even more. Let's keep the "Tiger" stories coming. He's pretty much finished. My dog respects me more than the"President of the World" respects us. That's the truth.
Bart said:What do you guys think about this Oprahesque article? Have we been too tough on Henry and Woods? We should not judge or condemn, we should try to understand. They were reaching out for help.
"And maybe, just maybe, what we can learn from all of this is simple: instead of being so quick to judge, perhaps we should be quicker to try to help."
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/311082-tiger-woods-and-chris-henry-what-can-we-learn-from-their-many-failings
(snip)
I look at the two men this way:
Eldrick Tont "Tiger"Â Woods is a man whose duplicitous actions cried out for attention that he claimed he did not want. There is a stark dichotomy between the public persona that he meticulously fabricated, and the acceptance that he so deeply (and obviously, in retrospect) craved.
The internal struggle resulting from the need for solitude and control colliding with his silent ache to be understood and approved of created a chasm that engulfed the fabric of his moral being, swallowing it whole.
Out of that deep, dark abyss, a serial infidel was born. A man who needed therapy more than he needed air to breathe. Blissful ignorance of that fact, and being constantly emboldened by his not being caught, motivated Woods to push the envelope of his depravity until one day he was forced to come to grips with his demons.
Which is what I think he secretly wanted all along, to be forced to deal with his strife.
That day has finally come.
When I consider the life and times of Chris Henry, it is quite plain to me that the young man suffered with a cruel, unrelenting mental (or quite probably emotional) disorder, dissociative in nature, and highly resistant to conformity to societal "norms."
Here, in his police blotter and in the very public airing of his misdeeds, was a cry for professional help as clear as the newsprint on the magazines that breathlessly regaled us with column inch after column inch of recitations of his truancy.
Why no one thought to persuade him to seek professional help is beyond me.
I'm not asking for sympathy for either man, especially not Woods. He is still alive, and very young, so there are myriad opportunities for him to heal his internal battles, seek redemption for his infidelities, and rehabilitate his public image.
Henry is a bit trickier; he is dead, and has no more opportunities at redemption.
But we can all keep the families involvedâ€"especially the children, who are 100 percent blameless in either morasseâ€"in our thoughts and prayers (if we believe in some deity to whom we can pray).
We can temper the words that we transmit over the Web, realizing that we don't know all the facts and have no right to judge, anyway.
And maybe, just maybe, what we can learn from all of this is simple: instead of being so quick to judge, perhaps we should be quicker to try to help.
Whether it be in our homes, neighborhoods, or places of work, we all know someone whom we probably label as evil or incorrigible. We call them a**holes, bitches and pricks, or any of a number of other colorful titles. We ridicule and laugh at them behind their backs, and attempt to persuade others to do the same.
But do we ever bother to wonder why they act the way they do, and what we might be able to do to help them?
It's too late to help or save Chris Henry, but it's not too late for anyone reading these words right now to reach out to someone else.
Don Wassall said:<div> </div>Bart said:What do you guys think about this Oprahesque article? Have we been too tough on Henry and Woods? We should not judge or condemn, we should try to understand. They were reaching out for help. "And maybe, just maybe, what we can learn from all of this is simple: instead of being so quick to judge, perhaps we should be quicker to try to help." http://bleacherreport.com/articles/311082-tiger-woods-and-chris-henry-what-can-we-learn-from-their-many-failings (snip) I look at the two men this way: Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is a man whose duplicitous actions cried out for attention that he claimed he did not want. There is a stark dichotomy between the public persona that he meticulously fabricated, and the acceptance that he so deeply (and obviously, in retrospect) craved. The internal struggle resulting from the need for solitude and control colliding with his silent ache to be understood and approved of created a chasm that engulfed the fabric of his moral being, swallowing it whole. Out of that deep, dark abyss, a serial infidel was born. A man who needed therapy more than he needed air to breathe. Blissful ignorance of that fact, and being constantly emboldened by his not being caught, motivated Woods to push the envelope of his depravity until one day he was forced to come to grips with his demons. Which is what I think he secretly wanted all along, to be forced to deal with his strife. That day has finally come. When I consider the life and times of Chris Henry, it is quite plain to me that the young man suffered with a cruel, unrelenting mental (or quite probably emotional) disorder, dissociative in nature, and highly resistant to conformity to societal "norms." Here, in his police blotter and in the very public airing of his misdeeds, was a cry for professional help as clear as the newsprint on the magazines that breathlessly regaled us with column inch after column inch of recitations of his truancy. Why no one thought to persuade him to seek professional help is beyond me. I'm not asking for sympathy for either man, especially not Woods. He is still alive, and very young, so there are myriad opportunities for him to heal his internal battles, seek redemption for his infidelities, and rehabilitate his public image. Henry is a bit trickier; he is dead, and has no more opportunities at redemption. But we can all keep the families involvedâ€"especially the children, who are 100 percent blameless in either morasseâ€"in our thoughts and prayers (if we believe in some deity to whom we can pray). We can temper the words that we transmit over the Web, realizing that we don't know all the facts and have no right to judge, anyway. And maybe, just maybe, what we can learn from all of this is simple: instead of being so quick to judge, perhaps we should be quicker to try to help. Whether it be in our homes, neighborhoods, or places of work, we all know someone whom we probably label as evil or incorrigible. We call them a**holes, bitches and pricks, or any of a number of other colorful titles. We ridicule and laugh at them behind their backs, and attempt to persuade others to do the same. But do we ever bother to wonder why they act the way they do, and what we might be able to do to help them? It's too late to help or save Chris Henry, but it's not too late for anyone reading these words right now to reach out to someone else.
<div>As the Valley Girls used to say (and may still for all I know), "Gag me with a spoon." </div>
Van_Slyke_CF said:There's an article on Yahoo right now, "Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model."
A review of a few facts:
In trouble all the time at WVU where he had no business posing as a student-afflete.
Arrested 5 times during his brief NFL career, with the presiding judge after the 5th one in April 2008 calling him a "one-man crime wave."
And now we're supposed to believe that he was putting his life together to be a swell teammate and super father to his three kids by his fiancee.
It seems to me that the Charlotte police report in the coming days should shed quite a bit more light on what happened and why.
Considering his rap sheet, you'd think the MSM would wait before recommending posthumous sainthood, but they are brutally predictable when it comes to NFL affletes.
bigunreal said:The hero worship extended to Chris Henry by the jock sniffers in the media was ridiculous. Yes, it's certainly tragic when anyone dies that young, but in any other business, someone with that kind of criminal record would have been an ex-employee long ago. And in any other country, he would have been given a lengthy prison sentence a long time ago. "Ocho Cinco's" performance was particularly absurd. Shocker that he scored a TD so he could show off that special celebration.
Don Wassall said:Not to be outdone was Carson Palmer: "He walked past my locker every day to shake my hand as I said, 'Good morning' and every day he said, 'What's up, cuz,' We've all seen and experienced different sides of Chris, and with every side he showed us, we saw just how kind and gentle his heart was." </div>
whiteathlete33 said:Ocho Stinko's fake mourning almost made me puke the other day. Affletes know how to fake injuries and fake emotions very well. After all they have been doing it for years to manipulate the system and get what they want.
backrow said:sh*t, i bet any of the punks in prison will reply to a good morning with what's up at the very least. and the worst part is, this is probably the best thing Palmer could come up with as far as illustrating Henry's "nicer" side...