Reggie White has always been one of my favorite players. Watching him in Green Bay was great. In fact without Reggie White, Green Bay doesn't win a Super Bowl. He was the Leader of the team and the heart and soul of the 96 Green Bay Packers. Packer fans owe a lot too Reggie White. He choose a town of just under 200,000 people and a franchise that was fairly dead over teams like the Falcons, 49ers, and Jets. Him signing in Green Bay is the biggest free agent signing too date and I think the biggest one ever. His play in the Super Bowl is still to this day one of my favorite individual performances ever. Watching Reggie holding up the Lombardi Trophy and running to the End zone with it will forever be a memory I keep as a fan. It's too bad Reggie couldn't of been there today. I would of really liked to hear what he had to say. I thought Sarah White did a great job and his son Jeremy was an excellent presenter. As my signature says it in my opinion he?s the greatest defensive player ever and now he?s a member of the Hall of Fame.
Reggie was one heck of a football player. His entry into the HOF is well deserved. His speech before the Wisconsin legislature a few years before he passed away somewhat tarnished IMO his otherwise exemplary life.
The man had a heart of gold. To leave the earth at 43 with so much life left was an injustice for which their can be few answers. And he did a heck of a job at that football thing too.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (blackadder)</div><div class='quotemain'>Reggie was one heck of a football player. His entry into the HOF is well deserved. His speech before the Wisconsin legislature a few years before he passed away somewhat tarnished IMO his otherwise exemplary life.</div> Everyone has their own opinion on the religious stuff. It was stuff like that speech that I loved Reggie for
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (blackadder)</div><div class='quotemain'>Reggie was one heck of a football player. His entry into the HOF is well deserved. His speech before the Wisconsin legislature a few years before he passed away somewhat tarnished IMO his otherwise exemplary life.</div> Well . . . He was a good football player.
It really is too bad that Reggie's not alive to enjoy this honor. 43 was just way, waaaay too young. The "Minister of Defense" will be greatly missed...
Reggie was a great man and the greatest defensive end of all time. I must admit that it irks me a little to see people still have to bring up his speech at the Wisconsin legislature. After all the good the man did on this earth, we have to keep picking at that one little blemish. God forbid that Reggie White be allowed to be a human and make a mistake.
When you state you are a minister/man of God as RW did then make such outlandish & tactless remarks like that in public, you deserve to have your image tarnished somewhat IMO. Reggie s/b exempt but we should throw the book at Mel Gibson? At least, Mel can using being drunk as his "excuse".
I just think that in the greater context of Reggie White's life, his remarks in that speech were just one mistake. I believe that the good that he accomplished was much greater than those remarks. Who hasn't said something stupid in their lives? Reggie made his mistake in a public forum and he certainly has paid the price, so how much longer do we have to keep beating his memory in the ground? Perhaps, I'm wrong. Perhaps when a person makes an unfortunate statement, he should have his nose rubbed in it until he dies and we can engrave it on his tombstone. Perhaps it's just me, but when I heard Reggie's words, it sounded like he was trying to make a point that all cultures have something to contribute and we can learn from one another, but he made the mistake of using racial sterotypes to get his point across. It was a horrible mistake, but does it make him a bad person or a human being? I'm not saying that it should never be mentioned again, but does it have to come up every single time that his name is mentioned?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Perhaps it's just me, but when I heard Reggie's words, it sounded like he was trying to make a point that all cultures have something to contribute and we can learn from one another, but he made the mistake of using racial sterotypes to get his point across. It was a horrible mistake, but does it make him a bad person or a human being? I'm not saying that it should never be mentioned again, but does it have to come up every single time that his name is mentioned?</div> It's not just you. That's the context I took it in as well... I think there's a difference between being stereotypical and being racist/discriminatory. Reggie's crime in this case was ingorance/lack of political correctness, not racism or discrimination. The message he was TRYING to deliver was, in my opinion, genuine.
Disclaimer: This by no means is indisputable nor do I make the rules. I did not say nor imply RW was a bad person. He is nowhere near the idiot TO or Britney Spears is. When you are a "celebrity"/public figure, you have less leeway IMO to freely express your opinions or act out. It's been said "The only difference between a wise man & fool is a wise man knows when to keep his mouth shut."
