Americans dote on sports celebrities like Joe Paterno
BY EVAN WEINER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTSAbout 19 and a half years ago, Donald Fehr and I were sitting in the dugout at Chain of Lakes Stadium in Winter Haven, Florida just talking. In March 1992, Fehr was performing his duties as the Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association by visiting every Major League player during Spring Training and talking labor.
Donald Fehr is a very intelligent man and the conversation turned to money and fame and the great players of the day, 1992, which included Bobby Bonilla. There was one sentence out of that conversation that has stayed with me for almost two decades.
“Americans,” said Fehr, “dote on celebrity.”
Fehr’s words have once again cropped up in light of the arrest of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky for allegedly committing crimes involving children. Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was fired because he didn’t do enough in alerting law enforcement officials in the Sandusky case.
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