The Cleveland Cavs Franchise has certainly brought the energy level of our great city up a couple of notches.
It has also given Downtown Cleveland national exposure. We need it, and we need more.
The Cavs Franchise has a Franchise player. A player with the potential to elevate our city to a new level!
The Indians did it in the mid 90s. A Franchise player has the potential to do a lot of good in the community, and probably does. A Franchise player, like it or not is a role model for the young boys and girls in the area.
The area being the Cleveland Plus region.
A Franchise player can do good, or average, or do bad. Humans make mistakes.
A young Franchise player with the potential that a Franchise player should have in any city needs to carefully measure his or her actions when it comes to life choices.
When a young child asks the question, "I heard that ________ ________ is having another child. I wonder what his wife is like", and I have no carefully worded answer in my answers to a child's questions bag, I sense there could be a problem.
Regina Brett, an acquaintance of mine, writes in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer:
" We're old-fashioned. We believe in marriage, even though half of them fail. We believe the ideal situation is for a mom and a dad to raise kids together, even though it's becoming a rarity."
This issue has been discussed before a little, but shouldn't a prominent Franchise player in a major city be a positive role model for the young ones, by doing the right things?
Having a child out of wedlock, with another one on the way, does not set a positive example.
To my child, I probably look like a Franchise player in my own right, and I live my life by always trying to do the right thing. She may not always listen or even agree when I tell her what to do, but I am sure she watches my daily actions, and sees me do the right thing in business, and in life.
Kids watch wealthy celebs and Franchise players in action. Our 24/7 media makes sure of that.
When flaky, and wealthy young women really do go to jail for not doing the right thing, kids take notice.
When Franchise players sells BBall shoes for $15, kids take notice.
When a Franchise player has a child out of wedlock, and another one on the way, without the commitment of marriage, kids take notice.
Whatever the reason {$$$$} for a Franchise player to not get married to the mother of his child
{soon children} is, maybe this Franchise player can come up with several reasons to get married, and show this city that it is all about "doing the right thing".
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