wmcovol
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Been that wayI don't disagree that Travis has been stupid, I just think his environment really handicapped him from early on, it doesn't excuse it, but it's tragic. On the broader subject, I'll tell you what though, we haven't seen anything yet. There are kids being raised right now, or rather not being raised that are going to be so crazy and irresponsible when they grow up I don't know what we as a society are going to do with them, the only choices are going to be to shoot them or lock them up. They never had a chance their parents were so screwed up to start with.
I'm not excusing Travis's actions, he's an adult, he made them, another poster had just said it wasn't sad, and it is to me.There's plenty of people that come from terrible family situations and still succeed. I'm not pointing this directly at you but it seems there is a lot of effort put into rationalizing the repeated idiotic actions of some people. Some people aren't victims.
I feel terrible for his kids.
I’m still trying to understand 11 kids with 10 different women...doesn’t that wake you up after a couple pop out.Several of these '98 championship rings have been sold over the years on e-bay. Ron Green comes to mind... they never fetch more than about $1K. The Travis Henry story is too stupid to be sad. He just doesn't deserve much sympathy. 11 kids by 10 different women? His lawyer once estimated that he was paying as much as $170,000 a year in child support payments... he used $80,000 of his signing bonus with the Titans to purchase jewelry for himself including a Rolex and gold chains - even though he was already behind on child support at the time. And he derailed his career with a cocaine trafficking ring arrest. In 2009, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison and ordered to pay $4 million in fines when he was already broke.
Every generation thinks the next generation is the worst. Nothing new.I think it is worse than it ever has been VFB. The reason I believe this is because we give these kids validity now and tell them it isn't their fault.
This is Get Off My Lawn Hall of Fame worthyI don't disagree that Travis has been stupid, I just think his environment really handicapped him from early on, it doesn't excuse it, but it's tragic. On the broader subject, I'll tell you what though, we haven't seen anything yet. There are kids being raised right now, or rather not being raised that are going to be so crazy and irresponsible when they grow up I don't know what we as a society are going to do with them, the only choices are going to be to shoot them or lock them up. They never had a chance their parents were so screwed up to start with.