Fredo: I’m your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael: That’s how Pop wanted it …
Fredo: It ain’t how I wanted it!
Part of the reason so many people were so moved by what Jalen Hurts did last Monday night, reacting as he did when he was abruptly benched and stepped over in favor of freshman quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, is that our prevailing notion of athletes is this:
Selfish is the norm.
Selfless is the outlier.
There’s probably some truth to that, sure. But this is also true: Selfishness, oftentimes, is in the eye of the beholder.