Replies to post #217785 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

Nothing was handed to him....

Well, i guess having a father that was a NCAA division 1 head coach wouldn't give a person an extra advantage at the stage of being groomed and given an extra look while in Pop Warner, junior high, or high school. you can teach someone a work ethic, but you cannot teach someone to be 6 foot 3 and throw an 90 mph fastball. (he was drafted by the kansas city royals out of high school but went on to play both football and baseball at stanford)

he was born with unusual athletic gifts and to a professional developer of athletes... i guess that is just hard work that got him ahead... sounds like a republican's view of the world.

[sortagreen]

Let's keep our focus on the point


"John Elway to Fox News: I’m Republican because ‘I don’t believe in safety nets’"


You want to claim that John Elway was born with the same abilities as everyone else... and he just worked real hard. Go on. Perhaps we differ slightly on the meaning of "gifted". Who knows?


My anger is that which anyone should feel when listening to some over privileged asshole talk about depriving others of life's basic necessities. Fuck him. But then look who I'm talking to.