I’m guessing the first thing you’re wondering is why am I talking about Lance Armstrong or Manti Te’o if I’m not that interested them. Well these are still significant news stories, that I do have opinion on, but I haven’t spent that much time following each new release of information.
I’m not going to be endlessly blog about it either. This most likely going to be my only post on the subject of Lance Armstrong and Manti Te’o.
It’s really pretty simply in both cases…. We put our sports heroes on a pedestal. They can do these amazing things, that the rest of us can only imagine doing. Then in just a matter moments it’s all gone.
They lie. They cheat, and they can sometimes do unbelievably stupid things. We thought Lance Armstrong was medical miracle. My goodness he beat cancer and won the Tour de France 7 times. Manti Te’o over came the death of a girlfriend and his grandmother to becomes this year’s most celebrated college football defensive player. Was he duped? Did he lie too?
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