18 year old sues Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart for Age Discrimination

So if you aren’t old enough to make responsible choices with money alcohol or firearms, how can you old enough to make a responsible decision to sign your life away to the military. This is interesting. And while we are at it, since you can basically choose your profession at 18, why can’t you choose professional sports as your profession without going to college first. And if you go pro why can’t your major be football or baseball? Stoney moments.

 

In baseball you can be drafted right out of high school. In basketball if you don't want to go to college for a year you could play for a foreign team and make some money. Football is a different game. There are almost no football players who are ready for the physical demands of professional football as an 18 year old. Leonard Fournette might have been able to deal with it but he wouldn't have been any more developed than he was as a true freshman at LSU.

For many players their real major and purpose for being in college is to get ready for pro sports. The reality is that only a small percentage make it and the rest will have to get real jobs. It would be a disservice to the majority of them to not at least give them the opportunity to prepare for life after sports. With all the academic resources and free tutoring available to athletes at a big time program like LSU a person would have to be pretty stupid or just plain lazy not to at least make good enough grades to remain eligible. Yet every year there are academic casualties keeping players off the fields and courts.

 

Yes.

 

I think the interesting thing here will be to see how the USSC decides the gay wedding cake dispute. If they say that the Cake shop has to sell to all, then Dicks should also be made to sell to all. If they say the shop doesn't have to, then Dicks *may* have a way out.

 

I agree with you, but let's face it when you are between 17 and 20 you are invincible so they make generally the most fearless joes. As you get older, you get married have children and start realizing you could die.
That same attribute is also more dangerous when it comes to booze and cars. I not certain that it pertains to guns in the same way though.

 

That still would not be able to purchase alcohol, gamble, or buy a firearm at dicks or walmart

 

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