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BILL PARCELLS SHOULD NOT BE INDUCTED INTO THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, BUT RATHER THE HALL OF SHAME.
Posted on: July 30, 2013
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I read in today’s USA TODAY that Bill Parcells is going to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and I think it’s a big mistake. Here’s a column I wrote some time ago and I think it bears repeating again:
By way of background, one of the biggest complaints NFL players have about coaches is that they feel some really don’t care about players’ personal problems and issues and are only interested in exploiting them to win games. Which seems to have been the case when you look at Bill Parcells’ treatment of Lawrence Taylor when Taylor was a New York Giant and Parcells was head coach. As we now know, Parcells looked the other way and allowed Taylor to continue to use illegal drugs and cheat on his urine tests, and to constantly violate team curfew hours, all in the name of winning. Parcels did not do Taylor any favors since he (Taylor) later tearfully admitted on national television (60 Minutes) that he was an addict. When this happened, it didn’t sit well with some of his Dallas Cowboys’ players who Parcells was then coaching in his first year as their head coach. And I don’t believe it was a coincidence that the Cowboys lost two out of their next three games and were eliminated from the playoffs. Parcells should not be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but rather the Hall of Shame.
I’ve written about Bill Parcells before but now that he’s being considered to take over the head coaching job of the New Orleans Saints, I believe what I wrote before bears repeating.
One of the biggest complaints NFL players have about coaches is that they feel some really don’t care about their personal problems and issues and are only interested in exploiting them to win games. Which seems to have been the case when you look at Bill Parcells’ treatment of Lawrence Taylor when Taylor was a New York Giant and Parcells was head coach. As we now know, Parcells looked the other way and allowed Taylor to continue to use illegal drugs and cheat on his urine tests, and to constantly violate team curfew hours, all in the name of winning. Parcels did not do Taylor any favors since he (Taylor) later tearfully admitted on national television (“60 Minutes”) that he was an addict. When this happened, it didn’t sit well with some of the Dallas Cowboys players who were, at the time, being coached by Parcells. And I don’t believe it was a coincidence that the Cowboys lost two out of their next three games and were eliminated from the playoffs. In my opinion, Parcells should not be allowed to coach any NFL team, ever! And by the way, he seems to have built his reputation based on “fear.” He has, in the past, been proud of the fact that his players feared him but I can tell you that fear is not a motivator. In fact, it actually distracts from performance.
WHY BILL PARCELLS SHOULD BE INDUCTED INTO PRO FOOTBALL’S HALL OF SHAME, NOT THE HALL OF FAME.
Posted on: January 9, 2012
I read in today’s newspaper that Bill Parcells “moved one step closer to Canton on Saturday when the Pro Football Hall of Fame released a list of 15 modern-era finalists for enshrinement that included the Super Bowl-winning coach.”
By way of background, one of the biggest complaints NFL players have about coaches is that they feel some really don’t care about players’ personal problems and issues and are only interested in exploiting them to win games. Which seems to have been the case when you look at Bill Parcells’ treatment of Lawrence Taylor when Taylor was a New York Giant and Parcells was head coach. As we now know, Parcells looked the other way and allowed Taylor to continue to use illegal drugs and cheat on his urine tests, and to constantly violate team curfew hours, all in the name of winning. Parcels did not do Taylor any favors since he (Taylor) later tearfully admitted on national television (60 Minutes) that he was an addict. When this happened, it didn’t sit well with some of his Dallas Cowboys’ players who Parcells was then coaching in his first year as their head coach. And I don’t believe it was a coincidence that the Cowboys lost two out of their next three games and were eliminated from the playoffs. Parcells should not be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but rather the Hall of Shame.
PSYCHO SELF-IMAGERY: It Can Work Positively or Negatively, Depending on the Paths you Follow in your Personal Life.
Posted on: May 8, 2010
The Psycho Self-Imagery process, when it’s working positively, involves having a high sense of inner self, resolving conflict in your life, not repressing feelings, bringing personal issues to completion, being highly spiritual, helping others less fortunate than yourself and having your life in harmony. When this path is followed, you will have positive things happen in your life, on and off the field of competition. Three examples are Sam Bradford, Ryan Howard, and Ai Miyazato.
But the process works negatively when you have conflict in your life, when you have a low sense of inner self, when you are repressing your feelings, when you have personal issues that you haven’t brought to completion, when you are not helping others less fortunate than yourself and when your life is in disharmony, you will have negative things happen in your life, on and off the field of competition. Three examples are Roger Clemens, Tiger Woods, and Lawrence Taylor.
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