At the End of the Day ...

[pbmus]

Last edited Sat Mar 28, 2015, 07:49 PM - Edit history (1)

We all need a whole hell of lot more of these guys and whole lot less of the wall streeter gang

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-nfl-player-farms-for-good/

[hopemountain]

1. thank you, jason brown ~

and pbmus for posting.

living in a rural community we see hungry families every day. there is a community garden in town and donations to the food pantries... but it just doesn't seem to be enough

[Sherman A1]

2. Agreed

[840high]

3. That's what I call a hero.

[douggg]

4. With that kind of contract money,

he could have bought far more food for the purpose than just growing it.

It's a nice goal but he could have done so much more.

[HubertHeaver]

5. Think about that.

One time purchase of food. The food is (we hope) consumed. People helped once.

Produce food--renewable resource year over year.

[douggg]

8. According to the article,

he was still player material.

He left the game, not lost it.

He still could have bought more food many times, not just once.

He could have done a lot more many times with his money from his talent.

He is doing a good thing but could have done much, much more.

[onethatcares]

9. I think we

all do what we can and if this is what he can, he has my utmost respect and admiration.

[HubertHeaver]

10. Why do you begrudge his going into the production side?

You seem to be saying he should have personally funded food distribution until his skills eroded to the point he would be out of football and money.

Football is extremely debilitating to the body game over game, season over season. No one really knows when that last season, last game, last concussion is except in retrospect. He chose to leave the game with his body still intact to do something else with his life. I applaud him.

[chemenger]

11. Think about this ...

give a man a fish, feed him for a day ... teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

[HubertHeaver]

12. I think we are on the same track.

The poster I responded to seemed to be saying he should have kept playing and buying food for distribution. I applauded his going into the production side.

[ErikJ]

6. He learned how to farm on Youtube.

At least thats what he said on a news interview.

[Enthusiast]

7. You can learn how to do about anything on Youtube.