The Science of Trent Richardson

8 Responses to The Science of Trent Richardson

1. Tim Perkins says:

   December 13, 2011 at 10:28 pm

   Jay: The Heisman program mentioned his two daughters. Is Trent married to the mother of those children or is this another sad case of athletes misbehavin’?
2. laymond says:

   December 13, 2011 at 10:45 pm

   Those Florida boys are ok , just don’t know how he came in so far down from those two old Texas boys that won, and came in second in the Hiesman vote. 🙂
3. rich constant says:

   December 14, 2011 at 9:22 am

   tooo cool
4. Jay Guin says:

   December 16, 2011 at 8:51 pm

   Trent isn’t married and wasn’t married when his daughters were born. But he’s changed his life and now preaches at churches on his mistakes and how Jesus has helped him turn his life around. http://www.pnj.com/videonetwork/1248862378001/Trent-Richardson-at-Pine-Forest-United-Methodist-Church
5. Bill Hunt says:

   January 23, 2012 at 1:41 pm

   In this morning’s paper was a story about Joe Paterno and another about Trent Richardson signing anything for an $89.00 ticket in Huntsville, AL. How ironic … a man like Paterno, long distinguished for building boys into men, was fired after 61 years for not reporting to the “police” but to his supervisors, the evils done by an assistant coach, while impressionable minds of young boys and girls standing in line in praise of Trent Richardsons, who fathered two babies when he himself was a kid in high school. Apparently, Florida has no “Dead-beat” Dad rules, and I wonder if taxpapers are paying to rear his children via Medicaid, or another program of sorts.
6. Julie says:

   February 1, 2012 at 8:39 pm

   Yes, tax payers are supporting them. They live in a brick home in Birmingham.
7. Charles McLean says:

   February 2, 2012 at 10:04 am

   Please tell me that this divinely-inspired turnaround includes Mr Richardson working at a paying job and using his wages to pay child support for his children. Please.

   I hate sounding like a cynic, but I tire of our ongoing appetite for famous people telling us how much better they are now than they used to be. There is a fine line somewhere between humble testimony of the grace of God, and patting onesself on the back to the general adulation of an audience, whose adulation is rooted more in their awe of football prowess than in spiritual progress. Funny how we don’t clamor for third-string offensive tackles from Backwater U. to tell similar stories in our pulpits. Nor line up to listen to ordinary fathers who have been doing for years what our celebrity believers have just now started doing– and lecturing about.

   I am not judging the reality of Mr Richardson’s experience with God, nor his sincerity. But I continue to be disappointed with our own shallow flattery of the famous. Especially when we co-bill Jesus with our celebrities. It’s Entertainment Tonight for Christians, and it’s the last place we ought to be putting (and, IMO, using) a young believer.

   When are Trent’s baby-mamas scheduled at this same church to give their testimony about his changed life? Now, that would be compelling testimony of the work of God, IMO. If we were really interested in hearing a story of redemption, THAT would be a far better one. But, knowing the market as I do, I am not holding my breath on this one.
8. Alabama John says:

   February 2, 2012 at 6:20 pm

   WE all love a story of someone turning from bad to good. You know, good triumphs over evil!

   The Bible is full of them. The negative comment s toward Trent would fit any one of the Bible characters too.

   Why not Trent for one positive story 2-5 thousand years closer?

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