So Jim Tressel has fallen...

Another professed Christian sports hero berated by a mocking public.  Is he guilty?  Probably.  He is, after all, still a human being.  He just happens to be in a very public, and powerful, position.  It's taken down better men than he.  We don't know what we would do in his position.

I smile if only because it reinforces the way in which we have made an idol out of sports and deified sports heroes with their athletic prowess and ability to generate large sums of money for doing something kids in the neighborhood play out of sheer joy.  On both fronts, it merely reinforces the largesse of the human ego and its ability to be trapped - often unknowingly - by its own ignorance in the light of its glory.

Rather than condemn Tressel and the Ohio State football program, we should simply let it be a lesson in the elevated status and power which we, the people, give it.  After all, if no one watched the games, it wouldn't exist.  If we didn't feed its seemingly bottomless pockets out of our own wallets, it would not have achieved the power it currently has and the sway it holds over people.

Just pull the plug...