Class Act by Shariff Floyd After Announcing He's Leaving Florida for the NFL

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Thanks for posting this - we are proud of Sharrif as you are with your Tide players - or as any school is of their players who think enough of their program to make a point of expressing their gratitude for their experiences while a member of the program.

Classy players, programs, fans, staff, and schools will always be the best part of college sports and it why we celebrate them every chance we get - no matter who the player is or where they hail from.

All the best and RTR,
Baz
The letter was a really nice thing for the kid to do. I hope he does well at the next level because it is refreshing to see a thankful attitude in this world of me, me, me that we live in. Don't take our razzing of each other and debate of class to mean we don't think so. It's the off season and some of our off season debates here are pure comedy. I for one didn't think anyone could take a post in which I used the phrase "fart at the dinner table" too seriously, but some did. :)
 
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The letter was a really nice thing for the kid to do. I hope he does well at the next level because it is refreshing to see a thankful attitude in this world of me, me, me that we live in. Don't take our razzing of each other and debate of class to mean we don't think so. It's the off season and some of our off season debates here are pure comedy. I for one didn't think anyone could take a post in which I used the phrase "fart at the dinner table" seriously, but some did.
Hey! That's some serious, uhhh, stuff there!!!
 

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the letter the fla player wrote was a nice thing to do and ive never said otherwise. It was an action and therefore a deed. But to apply the term classy in this case is just not appropriate. When you start lowering the threshold for class you wind up calling crooks and thieves classy. Save it for people who truly deserve it so that class has a special meaning for special people
Let me see if I can explain this to you. If someone steals(like a thief) something from you or cons(like a crook) something out of you, that's not classy. Thievery. Bad. Crookery. Bad. Writing Letter of Appreciation. Good. Classy. See how that works.:BigA::):BigA:
 

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Let me see if I can explain this to you. If someone steals(like a thief) something from you or cons(like a crook) something out of you, that's not classy. Thievery. Bad. Crookery. Bad. Writing Letter of Appreciation. Good. Classy. See how that works.:BigA::):BigA:
Your use of the term classy is really an over reach. What he did in writing the letter is better described as being simply polite. And still, the title of this thread has not been changed.
 

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Let me see if I can explain this to you. If someone steals(like a thief) something from you or cons(like a crook) something out of you, that's not classy. Thievery. Bad. Crookery. Bad. Writing Letter of Appreciation. Good. Classy. See how that works.:BigA::):BigA:
Thievery = bad = not societal normal....Being good = "normal"....nothing special about being normal. A lot of people expect to get great evaluations(raises) because they show up to work on time and every day. That is expected of you, you don't get special classification or treatment because you did something you should do.
 

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Well that was a good read, this thread.
One of the better threads in recent memory. Well done RTR91.

Thievery = bad = not societal normal....Being good = "normal"....nothing special about being normal. A lot of people expect to get great evaluations(raises) because they show up to work on time and every day. That is expected of you, you don't get special classification or treatment because you did something you should do.
Since when was it expected for players moving on to the NFL to put out a letter of a appreciation to the fanbase? I must have completely missed that memo. I don't think I can recall another player doing this.

Someone going above and beyond what is expected is not "normal."
 

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I liked Joeckel's letter to Texas A & M better.

He thanked the administration for making the decision to join the SEC and allowing them to compete with the best and show their talents on a national stage.
Well, Joeckel is a classy guy. Much more so than that Floyd fella. Of course, he's got NC* compared to Barrett Jones.

*borrowed from Russell, he of Fat Albert's gang of misfits: "Rudy, you got NC. No class."
 

rizolltizide

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Thievery = bad = not societal normal....Being good = "normal"....nothing special about being normal. A lot of people expect to get great evaluations(raises) because they show up to work on time and every day. That is expected of you, you don't get special classification or treatment because you did something you should do.
And yet, you're located in a dream world. ;)
 
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