LETTER: Is morality lost on football players?

Here we go again.

With the latest arrests of three Grizzly players for burglary in Missoula, I think I have had enough of supporting and watching the antics of this type of behavior. My thought is this: If there had been zero tolerance way back when, I think that was back when wrong was wrong and right was right, not the other way around, this would have stopped, or maybe slowed down.

After viewing football over the course of 30 years, I am talking in the pro ranks, in the ’70s the morals and lifestyle were good and there was very little criminal activity. So the years went on and everything seemed to change, everything runs down hill and there is no harsh punishments for them. At all.

So what I am saying, this sports stuff has gotten way out of hand, way too much money and the behavior of these athletes, to say the least, is horrible, but as I said all of this runs down hill, right down to high school, and I think there should be zero tolerance, harsh penalties, and a whole lot of teaching right from wrong for moral character in order to live in society as good standing individuals, because football does not last forever, and to be honest I am getting a bit burned out on the whole scheme of things.

As I see it, the Grizzlies who were arrested are just bad fruits from the professional ranks, and something must be done or one day we will be seeing UMI, “University of Montana Inmates.” (Remember “The Longest Yard”?) So sad. —R. Curtis Schroder, Kalispell