"nothing but beastly fury, and extreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain"

"'I believe that within 10 years there will be no more youth contact football,' Holloway said. 'And there shouldn't be.' […] 'If it were today, when opportunities have opened up, there's no way I'd play football,' Holloway said."

Churchhill, Chris. "Football disabilities endure long after roar of crowd ends." Albany Times Union. September 19, 2013. http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Football-disabilities-endure-long-after-roar-of-4826008.php

Admirable! People's lives might be better were they to pursue academics rather than athletics:

"'My mother always told me,' Bette McKenzie Holloway said last week, 'not to marry a pro athlete. She said they have affairs and they leave you.'"

Lipsyte, Robert. "One More Athlete's Wife Picks Up the Pieces of Her Life." N.Y. Times. June 1, 1997. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/01/sports/one-more-athlete-s-wife-picks-up-the-pieces-of-her-life.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

I'm glad one of the injuries done to Holloway was partially addressed:

"Statue stolen from Stephentown 'party home' has been returned." NEWS10 ABC. September 17, 2013. http://www.news10.com/story/23453662/statue-stolen-from-stephentown-party-home-has-been-returned

Sadly, I think Holloway's belief about the future of the catching and throwing of balls, of giving people brain damage and other injuries while abusing steroids and HGH, is naive optimism (though I empathize entirely with naive optimism, being given to it myself). I think football will malinger. The panem et circenses stage of our nation. There's too much money tied up in the spectacle by filthy rich individuals and corporations who don't ever give a thought to the harm they do, the trauma they cause, by their unceasing greed.

Evidently the entitled, amoral parents who raised their kids to be entitled, amoral teens have, predictably, despicably, inexcusably, threatened Holloway: sociopathy as a family value. Whoever came up with the idea of sealing juvenile records was probably one of those entitled, amoral types...? Or someone out of touch with reality, perhaps, a terribly misguided idealist.

Young sociopaths shouldn't be permitted to be on the same footing with those who wouldn't consider committing such outrageous, heinous crimes. If criminals want to put their crimes behind them, let their actions show it and let other people weigh the open record of their crimes against the record of what they've done since committing those crimes. As for them attending college: please, no. Not until they've demonstrably reformed. SUNY Albany has enough of their type already.

Editor The Record: On the same day, July 13, that the news broke in your newspaper, that the juveniles had been apprehended who had desecrated the two Jewish cemeteries in Troy by turning over 132 headstones “for kicks.” I listened to Judge Lester H. Loble of Helena, Mont., discuss the subject of juvenile delinquency on the Today program with Hugh Downs.

About five years ago this problem was so bad in Helena, as it is in Troy, that Judge Loble went to J. Edgar Hoover to discuss the problem with him and asked his advice as to the solution to it. Mr. Hoover told the judge that it would never be stopped until the children who committed these crimes were brought into the open by publishing their names and bringing them into court with their parents. The appearance of their parents in court and the juvenile names being made public, obligatory.

This method of treating juveniles who committed crimes was instigated shortly after the judge’s talk with Mr. Hoover, and prior to that time such juveniles were turned over to the custody of their parents and the whole matter was swept under the rug and forgotten.

The law must be changed to put such a program into effect, but would it not be worth it to stop the vandalism so rampant in Troy? Are the vandals going to intimidate and rule this wonderful country of ours, or are we going to do something about stopping it?

Judge Loble has written a book entitled “Delinquency Can Be Stopped” and I think the powers that be in Troy should read it. The streets, the parks, the homes and other places in our city can be made a lot safer if something is done about it.

HOPEFUL

Troy

Hopeful. "Vandalism." Times Record. July 18, 1967: 10. (bold emphasis added)