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Originally Posted by KCrockaholic
I've never fully understood the way of thinking that if a guy goes and plays football while he's dealing with a family issue that it's somehow heroic. An immediate family member death and then playing 5 days or less afterwards would be difficult.
But football is used as an escape from reality for some of these players just as much as it is from a fans standpoint. Dealing with a family member with some form of cancer can be very hard, but going and playing football while said family member is sick is not heroic. It's just how life is.
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No one said he is heroic. Speaking from experience, I can tell you that having someone very close to you having cancer is very distracting. It doesn't mean that other people don't do a good job when someone they love gets cancer. However, not a whole lot of people do their job with hundreds of thousands of people rooting for you or against you--as a young man; those two pressures combined are greater than the sum of their respective parts. Personally, as much as I like Geno as a QB prospect, I don't think he handles pressure very well. He has a bad tendency to throw temper tantrums on the sideline that a lot of people on the board like to dismiss as being "competitive." Perhaps he is just being competitive, I don't know--it just doesn't come off that way to me.