Clearly, for star athletes, that standard still holds. The inner culture of athletics glorifies an evening spent among the hoochie girls. Just last January, Dallas Stars Tyler Bouck and Ted Donato were busted in a Tampa strip joint as police were cleaning up the city for the Super Bowl. We will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. Our children will want to be like you, dress like you, act like you.
Malls sell things.
People are not things. Look, I know that no one, least of all a sports writer, can preach morality. The question of stars misbehaving is as old as time. Studio heads sent a parade of flunkies to keep Errol Flynn out of trouble. But the covenant is as real as the effects wrought by its destruction.