[nabs-l] Charlie Wilks- blind football player. (asfeaturedonESPN360)

[Rania]

I agree!
Rania,
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> 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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>> 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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