[nabs-l] Charlie Wilks- blind football player. (asfeatured onESPN360)

[Nefertiti Matos Olivares]

right on.

On 11/12/09, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>   maybe this makes me a bad blind person, but I had  not considered
> the possibility of a blind person  playing football on any level.
>  Granted I played touch football with  the kids in my summer   of
> service program, but I've never  considered lining up and playing
> tackle football  like  Charlie has.
>   Maybe  this reporter has  his own thing, but  it does make for a
> good human interest story.  Charlie may not be amazing,  blind people
> may not be amazing, but  not every person has the courage to step out
> and  not let blindness defeat them and we should celebrate  those who
> do.
>
>
>
> On 11/12/09, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>>  here are some thoughts I've been kicking around...   As a football
>> fan,   it seems as if   he does his job rather well. He's an interior
>> lineman.  so he lines up under the center offinsive lineman and is
>> just supposed to push back the center so somebody else can make the
>> play (the general job that  somebody is supposed to do in that
>> position).  if he hits somebody, great.   Jedi is rather correct  in
>> saying that sighted football players have done worse... Jim Marshall
>> of the Vikings once  ran the wrong direction in a crutial game years
>> ago.  Instead of scoring six points for his team (a touchdown), he
>> scored  two points for the other team (a safety).
>>   The very violent and fast-paced nature  of football breeds
>> quick-reactors on the field, especially from the defensive standpoint.
>>  While I can't remember  any particular story off-hand. i do remember
>> hearing that  players have ran  into other players  on their team
>> during a play, even tackling a person and on some occasions even
>> injuring that player.    H'es a kid living  his dream. in the end, I
>> think we can only be so lucky as to say we are doing  thins.
>>   just my opinion.
>>   best,
>>   Darian
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/11/09, David Dunphy <djdrocks4ever at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I guess I'm just put off by this whole perception of how amazing we are
>>> in
>>> the eyes of others when it comes out that we can do something. A guy who
>>> can
>>> see finds out a blind person plays football, and that person is a super
>>> hero
>>> who should have a hole story done on him. To me, he is just an everyday
>>> person that found a way to play football that I don't think he'll get far
>>> with based on what I heard in the article. Sighted people find ways and
>>> solutions to problems of how they're going to accomplish something all
>>> the
>>> time, and a second thought is not even given to it. We do it, and we're
>>> amazing. And the fact that he made such a big deal out of something like
>>> this, by this I mean mingling with his peers, whether it was by playing a
>>> sport or what ever, suggests that the writer thought that was incredible
>>> that a blind person can do that. As Harry put it, that to me shows a bias
>>> there on the part of the writer or a misconception about us. People
>>> mingle
>>> with their peers and find ways to have fun everyday. I personally thought
>>> the whole thing was corny.
>>> >From David
>>>
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> "And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny
> calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching
> before us;
> if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our
> slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe
> past and future generations,
> then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with
> you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be
> done, and
> usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth."- Baraq Obama
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