Re: *UPDATED: Garrett Reid arrested again - NOW SENTENCED
Great F'ing post!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted by BIGPHILLY
I lived in the guest house of my parents in my early 20's and drank and partied and hid it from them like a magician. Happens all the time. I finally drove myself to a point where I was going to end up in big trouble financially and with addiction. My parents weren't bad parents - believe me. They are incredible people.
But a man gets to a point when he needs to be a man.
I had to pay the price for some of my actions (Gambling) etc. and I did. I had to work hard and be disciplined to get out of debt - stop drinking and turn my life around. I wasn't addicted to heroin but gambling and alcohol are pretty bad.
Garrett Reid is lost right now. He's lost and he's at a crossroads. This doesn't make Andy Reid a bad parent. It doesn't make him a drug emporium ring leader. (Can't stand these judges who think they are now the moral authority in this land - have him walk one day in Reid's shoes)
It makes him human. My mother and father would do things differently knowing what they know now but I was slick. After I got myself on track and later explained to them how things were - they had very little idea. Did that make that make their home an alcohol emporium??!?!
Andy Reid isn't God. He doesn't know all things. No parent does. You can only do so much.
That said. Garrett Reid should be kicked out of the house and made to work and be in an apartment. Cutoff his funding and get him to understand what responsibility looks like. He needs to serve jail time. He needs to wake up.
My prayers are that he does.
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Finally - to say that running an NFL team and being a parent are the same thing is nuts. One is a job. Hollis Thomas and John Welbourn got paid to do what they do and with that comes a certain level of professionalism inherent to what they do. Period. Andy Reid has standards as a COACH. He's not perfect with that either. Dude can't even make in game changes!
But as a father - he is going through this life for the first and only time. Do you think he became the world's greatest man and father because he won the NFC EAST 5 times in his career? What? He's human. This is his oldest son. Better believe he's learning.
I've heard that Reid is a good man. He's a good father and a good person. I don't think his standards are "My kids can take heroin and pop pills and I'm going to provide a safe haven for that." I just don't.
If he did - then he'd be a hypocrite. But that's far fetched IMO.
But a man gets to a point when he needs to be a man.
I had to pay the price for some of my actions (Gambling) etc. and I did. I had to work hard and be disciplined to get out of debt - stop drinking and turn my life around. I wasn't addicted to heroin but gambling and alcohol are pretty bad.
Garrett Reid is lost right now. He's lost and he's at a crossroads. This doesn't make Andy Reid a bad parent. It doesn't make him a drug emporium ring leader. (Can't stand these judges who think they are now the moral authority in this land - have him walk one day in Reid's shoes)
It makes him human. My mother and father would do things differently knowing what they know now but I was slick. After I got myself on track and later explained to them how things were - they had very little idea. Did that make that make their home an alcohol emporium??!?!
Andy Reid isn't God. He doesn't know all things. No parent does. You can only do so much.
That said. Garrett Reid should be kicked out of the house and made to work and be in an apartment. Cutoff his funding and get him to understand what responsibility looks like. He needs to serve jail time. He needs to wake up.
My prayers are that he does.
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Finally - to say that running an NFL team and being a parent are the same thing is nuts. One is a job. Hollis Thomas and John Welbourn got paid to do what they do and with that comes a certain level of professionalism inherent to what they do. Period. Andy Reid has standards as a COACH. He's not perfect with that either. Dude can't even make in game changes!
But as a father - he is going through this life for the first and only time. Do you think he became the world's greatest man and father because he won the NFC EAST 5 times in his career? What? He's human. This is his oldest son. Better believe he's learning.
I've heard that Reid is a good man. He's a good father and a good person. I don't think his standards are "My kids can take heroin and pop pills and I'm going to provide a safe haven for that." I just don't.
If he did - then he'd be a hypocrite. But that's far fetched IMO.
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