RG3 to be Immortalized

You know what?

Good for Baylor, good for him, good for those fans.

I'm a Met fan and the most conspicuous thing missing from Citifield--other than winning baseball--is a statue of the greatest Met ever--Tom Seaver.

What are we waiting for? Him to die?

I'd rather see a statue too soon rather than too late.

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That's because our owners aren't Mets fans. They're Dodger fans.

 

And that he went to work for the Yankees after retirement.

 

Better than that turd Manziel getting a stadium immortalized for him. RGIII at least isn't a spoon-mouthed party boy destined for a holding cell.

 

Oh, by the way, fuck the Mets.

 

Ugh... Joe Paterno?

 

I don't think Seaver ever condoned buggery of little boys.

He should get a statue just for that.

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The conversation is about RG3, try to keep up.
The point is you can't know what's hiding in people's closets and so waiting a while is best. Certainly when you're talking about a 20- something y.o.

 

No, the conversation is about conferring an honor.

Of course you can't know what's hiding in people's closets but you also shouldn't wait such that the object of the honor can never enjoy it. To guard against the honoree turning out to be a bad guy, which you may never be able to determine.

Pat Burns was always going to make the Hall of Fame but the scumbag voters refused to put him in, even when he was dying of cancer. So he died never getting to revel in that incredible honor. So what did those do scumbags do AFTER he died?

Put him in the Hall of Fame.

My point, which you missed, is that you can never confer an honor too soon but you can sure as hell do it too late. Give Seaver a statue while he's still alive. And if it turns out after you unveil the statue that he's a child rapist, take the statue down.

Don't put the statue up AFTER he dies.

If RG3 turns out to be a really really bad guy, take the statue down.

Better too soon than too late.

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Yeah as really here in UT, they don't have a statue of Peyton Manning though they still respect and revere him highly.

But really so far, RGIII seems to be a great guy. Don't know why people are blasting him!

 

Because you never know, he might be a child rapist.

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He ruined the skins season last year and got the coaching staff fired. I can see him being blasted for that.

 

The coach got the coaching staff fired. RG3 wasn't blameless but Shanahan orchestrated that whole screwup.

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Well at a certain point I think he wanted to be fired and instigated his own demise but I RGIII was a much bigger ass than people want to remember. I still think he's a good guy, it just became a fkd situation.

 

The topic is about putting a statue to RG3, it has nothing to do with Seaver and Burns, except in your mind of course. Put it up if all you care about are the numbers and hope youll never need to explain to your kids while a rapist (or murderer, or drug dealer, or wife beater) is prominently displayed at the entrance of your team's arena.

 

Whoa seriously ... What happen at Penn State is evil but WTF dude insinuating that an amazing and beloved all time great athlete might turn out to be a rapist one day so don't make a statue to him... You're outta your mind dude. If you're that paranoid about your kid then wrap him up in a plastic ball and make him a bubble boy.

 

Who made you the arbiter of what the topic is?

The myopic view-yours-is that it's about RG3.

The broader view-mine- is that it's about putting up a statue--or giving an honor-- too soon for someone somebody thinks is undeserving of it.

Who the hell are we to decide what's right for Baylor University, their alumni, that fanbase, that town, that kid?

You might not like it, IDK maybe you're still traumatized by Joe Paterno.

Put up 20 statutes, I don't care. Better too soon than too late.

And I don't know why you think RG3 may be such a bad guy that they need to be careful about putting up a statue.

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Btw, I have no affiliation to Penn State (other than painting their Nittany Lion orange back during the days when we played them) but I talked to my kids AT LENGTH about Joe Pa and that whole mess, and my son's best friend goes to PSU and we've talked about it a lot. Continue to do so, talked about it this past weekend.

Having discussions with children, adolescents, young adults really isn't that hard to do. And it can be beneficial to them.

Better than hiding from it.

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They don't have to wait until he's an old man to make a statue of him. I think it's fine.

Now... what if Florida made a Tebow statue? (He would be Tebowing in the statue, obviously. Or doing the Heisman pose. Or throwing an interception.)