Agrawog
11-23-2005, 05:55 PM
In reading the Post article on Shottenheimer I came across this passage:
As training camp began, the Schottenheimers faced a different challenge: Brian was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. With his son ailing, Schottenheimer found help in an unlikely place. Snyder, his former boss in Washington, is a thyroid cancer survivor.
"Dan told me . . . 'Marty, if you're going to have cancer, this is the kind you want to have because it's relatively treatable,' " Schottenheimer said. Snyder contacted doctors who had treated him at the Mayo Clinic.
"I was very, very grateful for what Dan was able and willing to do," Schottenheimer said. "Brian is doing terrific now."
For all that has been written about Snyder and his relationships with his coaches you realize we know very little about the man and his reality. I am not an apologist for him when he does bone headed things (Deion? Carrier?) but do you think you will see any of the so-called experts in the national press talk about this side of him or even Marty? No, the story will be revenge for the second week and Marty's ultimate success at our expense.
Even for rich, young NFL owners life can be messy and complicated and people can do wonderful things for others (even so-called enemies) while still doing other dumb things at the same time. Nobody is perfect but nobody is totally stupid and/or evil either (well there's always T.O and/or Deion).
We should all think about this the next time we annoint someone a saint or the devil without knowing them (even me - well except for Deion :))
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/22/AR2005112201763.html
As training camp began, the Schottenheimers faced a different challenge: Brian was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. With his son ailing, Schottenheimer found help in an unlikely place. Snyder, his former boss in Washington, is a thyroid cancer survivor.
"Dan told me . . . 'Marty, if you're going to have cancer, this is the kind you want to have because it's relatively treatable,' " Schottenheimer said. Snyder contacted doctors who had treated him at the Mayo Clinic.
"I was very, very grateful for what Dan was able and willing to do," Schottenheimer said. "Brian is doing terrific now."
For all that has been written about Snyder and his relationships with his coaches you realize we know very little about the man and his reality. I am not an apologist for him when he does bone headed things (Deion? Carrier?) but do you think you will see any of the so-called experts in the national press talk about this side of him or even Marty? No, the story will be revenge for the second week and Marty's ultimate success at our expense.
Even for rich, young NFL owners life can be messy and complicated and people can do wonderful things for others (even so-called enemies) while still doing other dumb things at the same time. Nobody is perfect but nobody is totally stupid and/or evil either (well there's always T.O and/or Deion).
We should all think about this the next time we annoint someone a saint or the devil without knowing them (even me - well except for Deion :))
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/22/AR2005112201763.html