----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Football coverage observations
> At 08:44 PM 1/20/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: > >> Silly me for thinking that they were still playing a game out there, and > >> deciding whether or not to respect certain participants in that game > >> based > >> on the way they played the game. > > > >I thought of another thing. As an employee, isn't a coach honor bound to > >maximize the profit of the owners by whatever means he can? > > Uhhhhh......... No. > > And I think that you recognize that your own analogy is ridiculous. > > For example, let's say that you are the manager of a privately held > corporation. You know that your owner will be selling the corporation in > six months. Would you truly be honorbound to do something legal, yet that > you felt was unethical, in order to maximize the selling price in six > months? Personally, no. But, you have argued before that other actions by employees that minimize profits is morally reprehensible. > Say, would you be honorbound to produce misleading > advertisements that would boost sales? For example, I received an > official looking envelope yesterday from the "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE tax > return filing corp." The caps letters were in large print, and the > lowercase letters of the returna ddress were in tiny print. As another > example, I saw a television advertisement that was text rolling on a > background instructing "All Senior Citizens should have received > information about a new perscription drug benefit program in the mail, and > if you have not received this information you should call this number > immediately." At the bottom of the advertisement was tiny print that > "this is a non-governmental program." Are these actions of an > honor-bound individual? You know better than that, I think. But, isn't that what free enterprise is all about? As long as he doesn't get caught at it, he keeps his honor. Indeed, the motto in football has been, for as long as I remember, Just win Baby. A market system is based on everything that is not illegal is allowable. Companies that don't compete using almost everything within the rules lose out. In the football, the folks who aren't flagged for holding are just better at it. :-) Honor is a facad. Integrety is the real deal. Oh, I've got an Old English Quote on this, BTW Rob. "No prophet is without honor, except in his own country" is in the KJV of the bible. Dan M. > And then, of course, there is the "boy who cried wolf effect" of using the > League rules regarding injuries for a competitive advantage. Quite > frankly, its disgusting...... But, in foot ball, if it wins, it is good. Anything else is a fantasy. People love winners, not good losers. Look, that's not the rules I live by, but I decided long ago that I would forgo winning the biggest prize in order to keep my integrity (not that I'd necessarily win it if I didn't, but giving up integrity was a requirement, not a guarantee. But, football coaches don't have that luxury. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
