Guy #5: Mr. “Wanna-be pro baller”
Drive by (but don’t stop) past basketball courts in your ‘hood. What do you see? All over the country there are men playing basketball (football and other sports) strictly for recreation but within these groups of men are bitter, frustrated, under-achieving, so-called athletes that sincerely believe that they have what it takes to make it at the pro level!
This piece of work is often arrogant. He may be a health nut that works out in the gym all of the time. I admit he may very well be a good looking brotha with a great body! But so what! His obsession with being in shape may cause him to be hard on you! He may hold you to physical standards that you don’t have any interest in meeting. See, the guy lives his life as if he’s actually a pro athlete so therefore he “expects” the woman he’s with to be perfect. He figures you wouldn’t see Kobe Bryant with a “regular” chick so why should he be with one.
Every sista knows a guy like this. He is the kind of guy that is obsessed with sports (especially the sport or sports that he plays). He watches sports on television non-stop. His favorite television channel is ESPN. He’ll watch the same sport highlights over and over again. He tries to attend professional sporting events as much as he can. Much of his income (he doesn’t have much) goes toward sport jerseys, hats, head and wristbands and other sports apparel. He reads sports magazines and the sports section in the newspaper is probably the only part of the paper he’s ever seen. He may spend a lot of time in sports bars drinking and debating with his friends, the bartender and complete strangers about all things sports.
All of what I said in the above paragraph may seem like normal guy “stuff” but this guy takes it to the extreme. His entire life is defined by sports. Outside of it, homeboy has no personality and it basically boring. He’s likely to be caught up in his past when he played sports in high school. He’s your classic jock with the classic “entitlement” jock mentality.
He is a dreamer, plain and simple! He may waste his time playing in summer, spring, adult leagues (or whatever the hell he calls it). He may try out for semi-pro or by some chance get invited to try out for professional teams. Girl, he won’t make it! He’s just doesn’t have it. He’s too slow, too fat, too old, too stupid…or all of the above.
Look, we all have had dreams, things that we wanted to do in life that just didn’t happen for us. I feel this guy’s “pain” (Ok, I’m lying, I don’t give a damn about his dreams..) but he needs a plan B, C, D…and maybe even plans E, F and G! This guy may be suffering with depression over never making it in pro sports. He’s often unemployed or holding down some dead-end job hoping that his sorry ass life will one day soon make a 360 degree transformation and he’ll become a rich and famous (or at least rich) pro athlete.
In his “glory days” maybe he was pretty good; even real good. Maybe he had (or at least had a chance to have) an athletic scholarship and attended college. Maybe he had to stop playing due to a “career-ending” injury. Maybe he actually played sports at the collegiate level. But the point is, whatever his “story”, he is not a professional athlete with a multi-million dollar contract and multi-million dollar shoe and other endorsement deals and he never will be!
So, if you’re involved with Mr. “Wanna-be pro baller” and you think one day you might actually marry this guy....
Girl, don’t do it!!
This piece of work is often arrogant. He may be a health nut that works out in the gym all of the time. I admit he may very well be a good looking brotha with a great body! But so what! His obsession with being in shape may cause him to be hard on you! He may hold you to physical standards that you don’t have any interest in meeting. See, the guy lives his life as if he’s actually a pro athlete so therefore he “expects” the woman he’s with to be perfect. He figures you wouldn’t see Kobe Bryant with a “regular” chick so why should he be with one.
Every sista knows a guy like this. He is the kind of guy that is obsessed with sports (especially the sport or sports that he plays). He watches sports on television non-stop. His favorite television channel is ESPN. He’ll watch the same sport highlights over and over again. He tries to attend professional sporting events as much as he can. Much of his income (he doesn’t have much) goes toward sport jerseys, hats, head and wristbands and other sports apparel. He reads sports magazines and the sports section in the newspaper is probably the only part of the paper he’s ever seen. He may spend a lot of time in sports bars drinking and debating with his friends, the bartender and complete strangers about all things sports.
All of what I said in the above paragraph may seem like normal guy “stuff” but this guy takes it to the extreme. His entire life is defined by sports. Outside of it, homeboy has no personality and it basically boring. He’s likely to be caught up in his past when he played sports in high school. He’s your classic jock with the classic “entitlement” jock mentality.
He is a dreamer, plain and simple! He may waste his time playing in summer, spring, adult leagues (or whatever the hell he calls it). He may try out for semi-pro or by some chance get invited to try out for professional teams. Girl, he won’t make it! He’s just doesn’t have it. He’s too slow, too fat, too old, too stupid…or all of the above.
Look, we all have had dreams, things that we wanted to do in life that just didn’t happen for us. I feel this guy’s “pain” (Ok, I’m lying, I don’t give a damn about his dreams..) but he needs a plan B, C, D…and maybe even plans E, F and G! This guy may be suffering with depression over never making it in pro sports. He’s often unemployed or holding down some dead-end job hoping that his sorry ass life will one day soon make a 360 degree transformation and he’ll become a rich and famous (or at least rich) pro athlete.
In his “glory days” maybe he was pretty good; even real good. Maybe he had (or at least had a chance to have) an athletic scholarship and attended college. Maybe he had to stop playing due to a “career-ending” injury. Maybe he actually played sports at the collegiate level. But the point is, whatever his “story”, he is not a professional athlete with a multi-million dollar contract and multi-million dollar shoe and other endorsement deals and he never will be!
So, if you’re involved with Mr. “Wanna-be pro baller” and you think one day you might actually marry this guy....
Girl, don’t do it!!
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