Sports Ethical Standards

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Personal Standards in Sports: What About It? In today’s world, we see professional sports players as idols; role models that can do no wrong. What about when they do something like criminally wrong? Do we start to dislike him? Do we want them to be kicked off the team they play on? What do we want the sports teams to do about it? More and more questions are getting asked about this and people are wanting the teams to evaluate and discipline more of what the players do with their personal conduct. Sports teams should be allowed to hold players to ethical standards in their personal lives. First, when any person commits a crime or does something unethical, it reflects on their job and on other things they are associated with. And when they …show more content…

“News outlets now offer programming and content sites specifically dedicated to tracking ethical failures that occur “Outside the Lines” (Pritchard). “Unfortunately, this unparalleled media exposure aggressively paints sports heroes and the organizations they represent in shades of bad, ugly, and reprehensible replete with distressing coverage of questionable deeds and shameful failures” (Pritchard). Now, that it is more of a known and talked about topic, there is more of a news coverage on it. That’s why players have to be held to higher standards than others. These players have to be more aware of what, where and when they do things, in case they are being watched. These professional sport players just need to not do bad and embarrassing things, to stay clean of any wrongdoing. When they signed the contract, they knew what they were taking on. They just have to be hyperaware. Now that people are questioning the handling of these cases, the fans are becoming more and more wary of watching and rooting for these teams. When the video of Ray Rice punching his wife came out, many fans were outraged how the Roger Goodell handled it (Gonchar). For that reason backlash against the league and Goodell ensued from the fans from the teams (Gonchar). Negative backlash just takes down the brand more and more. They are just not as into it as they once was. Very controversial subjects such as Michael Vick, Adrian Peterson, and Ben Roethlisberger have brought the brand down and down time

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