Real Life

Posted: May 30th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 2 Comments »

I got home from work on Friday night and tried to think of something to right. After scanning Twitter and seeing the chaos around the country, I just couldn’t think of anything to say.

I woke up Saturday morning and once again struggled. How am I supposed to talk about promising rookies or roster holes after seeing this?

That is powerful. And real, very real.

Carson Wentz shared some thoughts on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/cj_wentz/status/1266138458340327424

I’m sure being around Malcolm Jenkins the past four years had something to do with that. You can’t be around a strong leader like Malcolm and not have some of that rub off on you.

Good on Carson for speaking up. There isn’t much to be gained from that, but it was the right thing to do. So many athletes are calculating, careful to guard their “brand”. Will I lose my marketability if I speak up?

I know you don’t want me getting into politics and issues like this. Trust me, I don’t want to. I’m a lot more comfortable discussing defensive ends than civil rights. Seeing the George Floyd video and everything that has ensued has gotten to me.

Black people have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Friends, teammates, coaches, teachers, neighbors, co-workers, bosses and on and on. My basketball hero is Julius Erving. Baseball is Eddie Murray. Football is Reggie White.

It hurts me that the Black people in my life are hurting, overwhelmed by grief and anger at another insanely unneccessary killing. Ike Reese shared some of his thoughts on what’s going on.

There are no simple answers to this situation. What can we do? Ike asked that people speak up and offer their support. That seems like a good place to start.

It would also help if we simply treat each other with decency and respect.

It would certainly help if the renegade cops out there quit doing stupid things like this.

I have a lot of friends that are cops. It sickens me to see things like this because there are far more good cops than bad cops, but these jerks will affect all due to guilt by association.

You make a bad situation worse with stunts like that. You undermine public trust. And simply put, you piss people off. Being a cop isn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination, but wrong is wrong.

Ugh.

I’ll get back to writing about football in the next post, but I felt I needed to share some non-football thoughts.

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2 Comments on “Real Life”

  1. 1 Eagles News: “I still can’t imagine [Alshon Jeffery] playing in midnight green again” – Bleeding Green Nation – Today In USA said at 1:20 PM on May 31st, 2020:

    […] Real Life – Iggles BlitzI’m sure being around Malcolm Jenkins the past four years had something to do with that. You can’t be around a strong leader like Malcolm and not have some of that rub off on you. Good on Carson for speaking up. There isn’t much to be gained from that, but it was the right thing to do. So many athletes are calculating, careful to guard their “brand”. Will I lose my marketability if I speak up? […]

  2. 2 Eagles News: “I still can’t imagine [Alshon Jeffery] playing in midnight green again” – Bleeding Green Nation – S1MPLE LIFE. said at 2:20 PM on May 31st, 2020:

    […] Real Life – Iggles BlitzI’m sure being around Malcolm Jenkins the past four years had something to do with that. You can’t be around a strong leader like Malcolm and not have some of that rub off on you. Good on Carson for speaking up. There isn’t much to be gained from that, but it was the right thing to do. So many athletes are calculating, careful to guard their “brand”. Will I lose my marketability if I speak up? […]