[GK3]

I love Deion.  

I'm tempted to borrow, and then adapt, Gore Vidal's definition of a narcissist:
it's someone better looking--and more confident--than you are.

For some reason, Darold Knowles' quote popped into my head. A reporter asked him if Reggie Jackson was a hot dog and Knowles replied "There's not enough mustard in the world to cover that guy..."

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I think "narcissist" and "marketing genius" walk hand in hand...

Well, I'd reframe and say the latter category is a subset of the "narcissist" category. Certainly I've known plenty of narcissists with no talent for marketing, persuasion, etc.

Narcissists and psychopaths make great sales people: study (fastcompany.com)

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Sanders and his sons are all attention seeking narcissists.  They are the college football equivalent of the Kardashians.

Maybe we ought to be careful before we label people we do not know and have never actually met. I would also recommend that we try to take into account the perspective of those we are judging...you are quick to label based on your standards of how someone should act but who says your "way" is the right way or the right way for Deion and his family?  Judging everyone from your own view of life from your own lived experiences is fine...but then acknowledge that.  If you had walked in Deion's shoes, maybe you would be acting just like him.

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I seriously doubt anyone has ever put Harbaugh and articulate in the same sentence. Saban is not the most articulate guy, either. Nor is Belichick. 

As for Deion, I don't care for the methodology of kicking out 70 kids already at Colorado and replacing them with a bunch of mercenaries. Maybe he's a genius and that's the future of college football, but it doesn't mean I have to like it or root for him.

A third party look from a top law firm (not mine) at why calling Black folks "articulate" is a problem...https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/articulate-compliment-we-need-talk

Always liked my former firm's thought leadership. When I was there (more than a decade ago), they had 22 attorneys who did nothing but write, producing 60,000 pages of original content annually on employment law. And I agree wholeheartedly with this podcast. When Barack Obama first ran as a candidate I was at another firm, and I asked our CHRO -- a strong, vocal supporter of candidate Obama -- what she liked about him, and she replied that he was "so clean and articulate." Unbelievable. And this was from the individual who oversaw interpersonal relations at the firm? Yeesh...

Not that it matters, but I took two public speaking classes at SCU, and both were taught by Black professors who were exceptional public speakers. Both helped me immeasureably.

Not too many years after graduating from Stanford I found myself a Company Commander in Viet Nam.  My commander was a Black LTC and perhaps the finest man I have ever known or served under.

[GK3]

I love Deion.  

I'm tempted to borrow, and then adapt, Gore Vidal's definition of a narcissist:
it's someone better looking--and more confident--than you are.

For some reason, Darold Knowles' quote popped into my head. A reporter asked him if Reggie Jackson was a hot dog and Knowles replied "There's not enough mustard in the world to cover that guy..."

---

I think "narcissist" and "marketing genius" walk hand in hand...

Well, I'd reframe and say the latter category is a subset of the "narcissist" category. Certainly I've known plenty of narcissists with no talent for marketing, persuasion, etc.

Narcissists and psychopaths make great sales people: study (fastcompany.com)

---

Sanders and his sons are all attention seeking narcissists.  They are the college football equivalent of the Kardashians.

Maybe we ought to be careful before we label people we do not know and have never actually met. I would also recommend that we try to take into account the perspective of those we are judging...you are quick to label based on your standards of how someone should act but who says your "way" is the right way or the right way for Deion and his family?  Judging everyone from your own view of life from your own lived experiences is fine...but then acknowledge that.  If you had walked in Deion's shoes, maybe you would be acting just like him.

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I seriously doubt anyone has ever put Harbaugh and articulate in the same sentence. Saban is not the most articulate guy, either. Nor is Belichick. 

As for Deion, I don't care for the methodology of kicking out 70 kids already at Colorado and replacing them with a bunch of mercenaries. Maybe he's a genius and that's the future of college football, but it doesn't mean I have to like it or root for him.

A third party look from a top law firm (not mine) at why calling Black folks "articulate" is a problem...https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/articulate-compliment-we-need-talk

Always liked my former firm's thought leadership. When I was there (more than a decade ago), they had 22 attorneys who did nothing but write, producing 60,000 pages of original content annually on employment law. And I agree wholeheartedly with this podcast. When Barack Obama first ran as a candidate I was at another firm, and I asked our CHRO -- a strong, vocal supporter of candidate Obama -- what she liked about him, and she replied that he was "so clean and articulate." Unbelievable. And this was from the individual who oversaw interpersonal relations at the firm? Yeesh...

Not that it matters, but I took two public speaking classes at SCU, and both were taught by Black professors who were exceptional public speakers. Both helped me immeasureably.

Not too many years after graduating from Stanford I found myself a Company Commander in Viet Nam.  My commander was a Black LTC and perhaps the finest man I have ever known or served under.