Friday, November 29, 2013
Christine Brennan: Heisman could use a winner like AJ McCarron - USATODAY - The first sentence of the Heisman Trust Mission Statement doesn't mention wins and losses, completion percentages or average yards per carry. Instead, It says this: "The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity." As each day goes by, Florida State freshman quarterback Jameis Winston moves farther from those words, and Alabama senior quarterback AJ McCarron moves closer.
Jameis Winston, and the Overlapping of Football Culture and Rape Culture - RHRealityCheck.org - Jennifer Luther - In the end, whether or not Jameis Winston is guilty, we know he is deeply invested in a football culture that is incredibly problematic, especially where it intersects with rape culture. Football culture clouds our ability to see him as anything other than a famous kid with a nice-guy persona and amazing athletic skills. Rape culture demands that we mistrust the victim, question her credibility, and try to poke holes in her story. It creates this familiar narrative in which people who have invested their own hopes and dreams in Winston claim his innocence immediately and refuse to hear anything else. No matter what happens in the Winston case, I do know this: Money will continue to flow, and games will be won. Football will march on and over whatever bodies it must. And many will cheer it on as it does.
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