Being an athlete does not mean that you are also a jerk.
It is more the culture of organized athletics that accomplishes this end. For example, hedge fund investors in a Milwaukee sports franchise want some of the city's taxpayer money to fund a very large part of the construction costs of their projected new professional sports arena for their investment. In effect they want the taxpayers to take millions of dollars away from existing city projects and spend the money on their investment instead. Youth sports in the city of Milwaukee is financed by the city of Milwaukee. Youth sports in the city of Milwaukee is hurting. Badly. One youth football league plays on a field that does not even have goalposts. See Michael Powell, "An Arena Fairy Tale With Blurred Morals / Milwaukee Bucks Seek Financing for Arena as Schools and Other City Centers Face Money Problems" (New York Times Online, posted on Thursday, October 16, 2014).
An athlete is not automatically a jerk, to say again. "It is in vogue now to blame and condemn athletes. They should be held accountable for their behavior. Too many of them may be monsters. But we are just as culpable, allowing them to exist in a realm all their own and not caring a bit about what we have turned them into -- as long as they bring us victory." Buzz Bissinger, "The Boys in the Clubhouse" p. 6, col. 1 (New York Times Nat'l ed., "SundayReview" Section, Sunday, October 19, 2014), by a sportswriter who spent a season with the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball club.
Bad faith does not come automatically. It is developed. It is fed. It is built at the expense of other people, you might even say.
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