Sounds like he had great intentions here, but sometimes people can make analogies that makes you wonder what they were smoking earlier in the day. ESPN’s Colin Cowherd provided an example today on his show The Herd With Colin Cowherd.
Cowherd was discussing college athletes who accept illegal benefits, saying they “lack ethics” and should be more like Jesus on his show Thursday morning. Responding to arguments that college athletes should be paid for their efforts, Cowherd expressed that “Jesus was a pauper” and athletes being poor does not excuse them from “taking money that isn’t theirs.”
Full text of Cowherd’s rant below:
One of the things yesterday, during that whole Miami football scandal, you know, one of the lamest excuses people use all the time is these Miami players are poor and so they took payouts. That’s a lame excuse for lacking ethics. Being poor, rich and poor in morality are separate issues, ok? The man, Jesus, was a pauper, ok? He didn’t care about material things and watches and yacht trips. And you’re poor. Nobody is — nobody lacks ethics because they’re poor.
There are millions of Americans who are categorized financially as poor who have ethics and don’t take things that belong to them. The truth is, though, people don’t like to admit their faults. Very few people will own their own baggage. That’s why therapy is good for all of us. So people make excuses for doing things. I’m poor so i took $30,000 from a booster. No, you lack ethics, and you just happened to be poor. But a lot of poor people don’t take money that’s not their money.
I’m not sure I understand Cowherd’s explanation but he has freedom of speech. Just not sure how he sees the money that would be given to college athletes as “not theirs.” Not too many people are fans of Cowherd anyway so we’ll take his words as a grain of salt.