Pittsburgh Steelers wideout Hines Ward will visit Korea for two weeks in April. For Ward, of course, this is much more than just a post-Super Bowl vacation. As AP put it:
To the 29-year-old Ward, traveling to a country where the NFL is barely known represents much more than a chance to do some sightseeing, to be introduced to a culture he has been told about but has never seen in person.
This is about saying thanks to a mother who didn’t know English when she moved to the United States, but knew of things far more important: the value of trust, honesty, hard work, loyalty.
And, most of all, of love.
(Hat tip to Plunge)
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Too bad…it’s going to be bad for ??? when he show up without that big ass Super Bowl ring.
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[...] Other blogs have covered this already… Lost Nomad gave some background here and here. Here is another good post from Cathartidae. The Marmot’s Hole gave some more info here, here, and a more in-depth post here that has gotten many replies and is worth a read. That post addresses the issue of mixed-race Koreans and the hardships they have. I think that this current obssesion about Hines Ward is a bit silly. Nobody had ever heard of him, let alone cared about him, before this. A friend of mine was teaching a high-level class of university students while the Superbowl was on. He turned on the TV during a break and explained that one of the star players has a Korean mother. None of the students cared (it’s just stupid American football) and they asked for the channel to be changed. The next day, after Hines Ward was all over the news, the students came to class praising Hines Ward. They asked my friend, “Did you know about Hines Ward?” My friend pointed out that he was the same person he’d tried to tell them about the day before and rolled his eyes. [...]