On this day 11 years ago tragedy struck. It hit home for too many people and affected the world.
As i have looked back on the day for the few hours I've been awake, the most apparent thing is how human this made the world. Kind of a stupid comment i know but tragic events like these bring people together, its being neighbours closer, family closer, and in sporting terms it brings athletes back to earth. This guys are put on such a pedestal, that we view that as physical freaks. When really they are human just like you and me. They feel pain, sorrow, joy, and disappointment just like we do. The only difference is for the most part we are disappointed because they lost, hits them harder i bet. We are happy because they won, they are happier i bet.
The public and the media are so quick to jump at these men and women when they fail, present company included. I read a tweet from Andrew Brandt today that really made me realize something, the tweet read "played at giants in make up game, arranged a tour of ground zero day before. Never will forget standing w/players in silence crying.". These are grown men who make a living basically fuelled by testosterone. 300 lbs lineman in tears for people they didn't know. I think that we all need to step back and realize these guys are only human. They are going to drop a pass, fumble, throw a wild pitch, miss an open net, miss a dunk. The difference is they get back and do it right the next time while we sit and bitch about that time they missed.
These guys have families, and we critique them to the point that i guarantee none of us could handle. Take Tiger Woods for instance. Now in no way do i think what he did was right, but the media and general public turned his life upside down because of how we reacted. Tons of men cheat, its a fact, but because he was a golfer (a sport which i bet 90% of the people angry don't watch or care for) and has had so much success, we had to rip his life apart. Is that fair? granted he should have never done it, but how the public and the media treated him was absolutely overkill. The guy just fucked up him family by his own mistake yes but still that was his family we have all done things that hurt our family at sometime. And his life got torn into pieces because of. If that happened to every man who cheated and got caught i guarantee a sad ending to the majority of those stories.
11 years has passed since the event that changed us, showed peoples true colours. On this day i think we all take a minute remember those we lost but also, take sometime to remember those athletes we follow so intently are just men/women. In the end they are human just like you and me, all they did was follow a dream. A dream that we didn't, so next Sunday when your all gathered in a basement sucking back beers and yelling at replacement refs, or a WR remember that guy is human and doing something you can't. These guys are super humans definitely, but key word in that is human.
9/11 2001, a day never to be forgotten, for the sacrifice of many. Let us remember the people we lost and people who ran into duty and forget the evil that caused it.
Thank you for reading, again these are just my opinions any comment feel free to post them. My intent is not to offend.
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