Sport Role Models

The conduct of players officials and spectators has an effect on the image of individual sports and the expectations of behaviour by those involved in them.

Sport role models. In 1993 nike ran a ground breaking tv commercial from. However the extent that role model behaviour does or does not impact on the decisions of parents and children to participate in a given sport is not well understood p 86. The worst sports role models begin and end with nfl owners. Athletes shouldn t have to be role models but lazy parents want someone to blame for their insolent foulmouthed offspring.

While charles barkley doesn t think athletes should be role models the truth is anyone can be a role model provided that you have access to them they add benefits to your life on and off the field and they remain focused on encouraging you to achieve your goals. And sport provides inspirational role models who can engender community pride and help strengthen the social fabric of divided communities regions or countries p 117. There s a history of speculation and argument about athletes taking on the status of role models. Role models provide direction in sport and in life.

Top 25 sports role models of last 25 years 0 of 25 in the opinion of this writer a role model is defined as someone who has been a great individual not just on the playing field but off it as well. Nonetheless here are the top twenty athletes with a healthy mix of retired and current competitors who are outstanding role models. What about sports stars as role models. A role model is defined as a person whose behavior example or success is or can be emulated by others especially by younger people athletes comprise most of the role model community in today s day in age based on their popularity in our culture.

In between these egomaniacal blowhards the lineup includes pro football players including a lot of quarterbacks a couple of boxers and several professional athletes who seemed to think they were boxers. Role models and behaviour.