Jay Cutler Foundation
P.O. Box 631934
Highlands Ranch, CO 80163
March 17, 2009
I am sure my letter wont mean anything to you and it most likely may not even be read but I wanted to write to you to express to you that you have lost fans in my home. My two boys, Alec,8 and Beck,10 idolize you as a Denver Bronco and we sat down and discussed your current situation in your dispute with the Denver Broncos over dinner. Both my sons play sports, and play on football teams and we played out a little scenario, “what if the QB on your youth football team acted this way?”
After much discussion, both pros and cons, the boys reached a decision without my input, no player is above his entire team at any level. Our conclusion is that we can not cheer for and support any athlete who puts himself above the team. Football is a team sport and you play on a team and as my 10 year old son Beck put it, “nobody likes to play with a guy who thinks he is better than everyone else”.
Putting things in perspective, in a world where people are losing their jobs, losing their homes, and there lives are a struggle, how can we support athletes who don’t realize that football is a job and you are blessed to be paid to play a game we all love and support? My sons and I love your talent, love the way you play the game on the field but off the field matters just as much. It was their choice to take down your posters until you decide to be the leader of a team and stop acting so selfishly.
Rex, Beck & Alec Halbeisen
5678 West 109th Circle
Westminster, CO 80020
Sadly in a society where sports and entertainment figures are given demigod status, a lot of them outgrow their hats, so to speak.
ReplyDeleteWhen my son was 10 years old, he thought Michael Jordan was the greatest. It was very discouraging when this scandal came out that Michael Jordan had been fooling around on his wife of many years with a porn star. Not that he ever even saw it, but I wrote a letter to Michael Jordan stating how disappointing this was and how difficult it was to explain to a ten year old kid that his hero thought that little of his family. People's marriages fail, that wasn't the problem. The problem was the sordid nature of his conduct.
Maybe something you said will get through to Cutler, who knows?