Heroic NFL player Deangelo Williams revokes daughters participation award; Demands she do better!!

[bucs90]

WCSC : DeAngelo Williams returns daughter's participation award

NFL running back Deangelo Williams had his young daughter come home so proud and excited from her field day and presented him with her "Participation Ribbon". She had finished 6th place.

He said damn that. Told her she didn't win anything....took it from her....and like the honorable man he is....promptly took it back to the communist public school and return their worthless award. He told her if she wanted an award....she had to finish top 3 and then she could keep her prize.

Guess what??? She went back. And won 1st place!!! See....rejecting the liberal mindset leads to greatness.

This great man should win an award for this rare display of common sense that our country is rapidly losing.

 

[Mac1958]

Good for them.

Real success is earned.

Self-esteem is developed, isn't something that is just handed out to everyone.

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[there4eyeM]

Perhaps there is too much emphasis on competition, but everyone needs to learn capabilities and limitations. Intellectual honesty would say that if one believes that competition and losing hurt children, don't have it. If competitions are held, don't make them meaningless with meaningless rewards.
People have to learn how to handle situations where they do not achieve what they wished. They need to learn that life goes on and that the true value of living is just that, living. It's a great feeling to win, but years later on a cold winter's day, the best thing is to be at peace with who you know you are.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Excellent father

 

[Moonglow]

Awards are good for plastering the wall, after that, they are worthless...

 

[Tommy Tainant]

What a prick.
Abusive parent.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Hero? So this elevates someone to the status of say, a soldier carrying an M1 Garand onto Omaha beach?

I mean the delusion of conservatives has reached it's zenith. EVERYTHING to them is some galactic political event and anything that makes them feel good for five minutes MUST be shouted from the mountain tops.

Whack-a-mole.

 

[Montrovant]

Heroic?

You also misrepresented the story and made Williams sound like a bit of a dick. His daughter did not 'come home' with a participation ribbon. She brought it to him at the event, according to the link, and told him she had won. He took it back to the person running the event and said that she hadn't won anything and he didn't believe in participation awards. That's different and much more understandable than having her come home from doing something with a ribbon and him taking the ribbon back to school to return it.

Nor did the girl 'go back' to school. She finished in the top 3 in the next couple of things she did at the field day.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Williams not wanting his daughter to get participation ribbons, but his actions were certainly not heroic. The school is not communist for holding a children's field day in which participation ribbons were given out, either. I also didn't see anything to indicate whether the school is public or private.

Great, heroic man for giving back a participation ribbon.

 

[Montrovant]

What a prick.
Abusive parent.

Abusive? That's about as silly as calling Williams heroic.

She said she got a ribbon for winning. He told her she hadn't won (which she hadn't) and gave the ribbon back. If that's abuse, you have an extraordinarily low bar for what constitutes abuse.

 

[IsaacNewton]

If I remember correctly every coach that I ever had as a kid took everyone aside after a loss and said "you guys played your hearts out and you are all winners in my book". Then the whole team was treated to ice cream or pizza. This idea has just been brought more forthright into the open.

I also knew kids who when they got home their father berated them for 'being losers'. Many of them had trouble with the law. Figure it out.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

What a prick.
Abusive parent.

Abusive? That's about as silly as calling Williams heroic.

She said she got a ribbon for winning. He told her she hadn't won (which she hadn't) and gave the ribbon back. If that's abuse, you have an extraordinarily low bar for what constitutes abuse.

If there are 6 people in the race then somebody is going to finish 6th. Why give that kid a hard time ? Abusive parent indeed.

 

[Montrovant]

What a prick.
Abusive parent.

Abusive? That's about as silly as calling Williams heroic.

She said she got a ribbon for winning. He told her she hadn't won (which she hadn't) and gave the ribbon back. If that's abuse, you have an extraordinarily low bar for what constitutes abuse.

If there are 6 people in the race then somebody is going to finish 6th. Why give that kid a hard time ? Abusive parent indeed.

Again, your bar for what constitutes abuse seems to be ridiculously low. Should someone call child protective services on him for not allowing his daughter to keep a participation ribbon?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

What a prick.
Abusive parent.

Abusive? That's about as silly as calling Williams heroic.

She said she got a ribbon for winning. He told her she hadn't won (which she hadn't) and gave the ribbon back. If that's abuse, you have an extraordinarily low bar for what constitutes abuse.

If there are 6 people in the race then somebody is going to finish 6th. Why give that kid a hard time ? Abusive parent indeed.

Again, your bar for what constitutes abuse seems to be ridiculously low. Should someone call child protective services on him for not allowing his daughter to keep a participation ribbon?

He should act like a father and celebrate with his 8 year old daughter.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Participation trophies gave us these sissy millennials needing safe places and unable to compete in the real world

 

[bucs90]

Hero? So this elevates someone to the status of say, a soldier carrying an M1 Garand onto Omaha beach?

I mean the delusion of conservatives has reached it's zenith. EVERYTHING to them is some galactic political event and anything that makes them feel good for five minutes MUST be shouted from the mountain tops.

Whack-a-mole.

YES....being an outstanding parent IS HEROIC.

There is the difference in leftists and conservatives. We see excellent parenting get ad heroic and noble.

Most libs see it as optional....the government is there to do it for ya. Plus....if you're TOO GOOD of a parent you might give your child a head start and good inheritance....which is an unearned "privilege" and that's shameful.

 

[bucs90]

No surprise that the liberals on here disagree with what he did.

Hell....they probably think the ribbons shouldn't even have 1st 2nd 3rd place etc etc etc......it should just say "You Did It" and everyone gets the same ribbon.

That's why we have a whole generation of whiny pussies in college.....they were raised by liberals.

 

[bucs90]

But fuck all you lefties who don't see being a great, demanding parent as "heroic".

My mother raised 3 kids after her husband cheated and fled....and she did it working 3 part time jobs and provided us all a good home. What she did was as heroic as anything else....and millions of parents do it every day without recognition.

 

[Montrovant]

Hero? So this elevates someone to the status of say, a soldier carrying an M1 Garand onto Omaha beach?

I mean the delusion of conservatives has reached it's zenith. EVERYTHING to them is some galactic political event and anything that makes them feel good for five minutes MUST be shouted from the mountain tops.

Whack-a-mole.

YES....being an outstanding parent IS HEROIC.

There is the difference in leftists and conservatives. We see excellent parenting get ad heroic and noble.

Most libs see it as optional....the government is there to do it for ya. Plus....if you're TOO GOOD of a parent you might give your child a head start and good inheritance....which is an unearned "privilege" and that's shameful.

1. Being a great parent is not heroic. Just because someone does a great thing does not make that thing heroic.

2. One can have no idea if DeAngelo Williams is a great parent just from this single incident. It's one minor incident.

3. Do you feel comfortable speaking for all conservatives? Or liberals?

4. You are setting the bar low on heroism just as Tommy Tainant sets the bar low on abuse.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Hero? So this elevates someone to the status of say, a soldier carrying an M1 Garand onto Omaha beach?

I mean the delusion of conservatives has reached it's zenith. EVERYTHING to them is some galactic political event and anything that makes them feel good for five minutes MUST be shouted from the mountain tops.

Whack-a-mole.

YES....being an outstanding parent IS HEROIC.

There is the difference in leftists and conservatives. We see excellent parenting get ad heroic and noble.

Most libs see it as optional....the government is there to do it for ya. Plus....if you're TOO GOOD of a parent you might give your child a head start and good inheritance....which is an unearned "privilege" and that's shameful.

Nah conservatives want the government to raise their kids for them. That is one reason the red states get most of the welfare from the fed.
And after all the Republicans that have been prosecuted for molesting children no one should be claiming they are good with kids.

Trump wants to date his own daughter.

 

[Rustic]

What a prick.
Abusive parent.

Competition is a good thing, getting awards for just participating means less than nothing… dolt