Are Athletes Role Models?

Are Athletes Role Models? Lately, a topic of great controversy has been whether or not athletes should be looked upon as role models by their fans. Does an athletes’ responsibilities pertain solely to his performance on the field of play or does it also extend to his personal life as well? There are many who claim that it is wrong for a sophisticated society to impose a set of behavioral expectations on fallible people who …

…his hero was found guilty in the Black Sox scandal of 1919), or a nation where billboards and commercials urge young people in 1999 to “Be like Mike, ” we must accept the fact that the emulation of heroes will always be a part of our lives and that athletes do have a responsibility to behave like Michael Jordan as opposed to Mike Tyson. Therefore, sports figures are definitely role models, but not all are necessarily good ones.