NY Times: "A Sudden, Violent Moment That Still Haunts a Life."

Will and Popeye show the wisdom of the ages in their posts. The most difficult thing all of us must learn is self-responsibility. Taking responsibility for things that happen to you and things that you do is the most empowering thing you can do in your life and the most peaceful.

It is a hard thing to do but more than worthy of the attempt. Compassion and self-reliance are far more important than justice and placing blame.

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Just one fan's opinion. What Washington did was dastardly, down and dirty. He almost killed Rudy. The clip of that incident is like the Theisman leg break to me; I have to turn away.

As far as his article goes, it seems he is portraying himself as the victim. I realize this is big sport in this country right now, but he was not the victim here. Rudy was. Washington was the aggressor. It reminds me of something a criminal defense attorney would come up with, or a federal defender to more specific.

It appears that Washington will go to his death bed feeling sorry for himself, when Rudy is the one he should feel for. That's too bad. Rudy had gotten over it, he needs to as well. Based on what he wrote, it looks as if he has never fully come to grips with what he did or made the necessary reparations to Rudy (i.e. He claims he tried to call the hospital, but what else did he do?). I wish he could see that he is actually a lucky human being. He is alive at a great time. He owns his own business which hopefully is a source of great satisfaction. He played bball in the NBA (How many of you would give an arm to be able to say that?). He apparently has his health. He apparently has a family. He apparently has a reasonable standard of living in one of the prettiest cities in the world. Looked at from a different perspective, he should take it to heart that there are a lot of men in this country who did less than what he did to Rudy and are in prison right now.

So, Mr. Washington, I say quit your b****ing, quit feeling sorry for yourself and quit this distasteful whinning. Just get on with it.

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[This message has been edited by Joe Fan (edited May 18, 2000).]

 

http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/051700/SPTguideracolumn.shtml

And here is a perfect example of how he can never live it down. This is a story about Dream Team III. The author had to think real hard on how to integrate Rudy's unfortunate incident with what is going on now.

This is really lame. Bringing up that incident in this story makes no sense whatsoever. To make it worse the author uses that incident as a lame analogy as to what it will be like coaching the Dream Team this year.

Way lame, bordering on bad taste.



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