Charity?

At first, I was prepared to give Brandon Marshall the benefit of the doubt. I don’t support these players, but I understood that they feel this is their outlet to make a statement about an issue important to them. That’s because, unfor- tunately, our society cares what celebrities have to say about matters they know very little about. So these athletes are using the opportunity afforded to them. Fine. Then came Marshall’s article in the Denver Post that recounted an encounter that sounded so unlikely I really started to wonder about this man’s credibility. Soon after, Marshall announced he would donate $300 for every tackle he makes. What a joke. First, it’s a laughably low number as our editorial pointed out last week, nowhere close to the […]