Re: Greatness

In the essay "He Turns Boys into Men", Ehrmann makes his life goal of helping the male youth of this generation grow up into the correct type of men. Ehrmann is a 55 year old man that is in his retired years after 13 seasons of professional football with the Baltimore Colts. He spends his time now coaching a football team out of Gilman High School in Baltimore. Besides his coaching job Ehrmann also is a inner-city minister and not to mention even a founder of a community center.
His main goals though are to break down the standards of the pressure that society puts on males today with: athletic ability, sexual conquest and economic success. Ehrmann referes to these as the 3 false masculinties of males. He feels that all we do as males is compete to be the best and Ehrmann feels that all this competeing does is makes us feel isolated and alone if we are not at the top. He ties that into football by playing every senior in every game. Their main goal is to make a difference in these young adults lives to where they will have a better out look on life. Ehrmann makes sure too that the players do these tasks, even if it is as simple as making sure that no one sits by them selves at lunch too one day possibly playing a big role in other peoples lives such as Ehrmann is doing for these kids.
Ehrmann states, "At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know that somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved we were other-centered, other-focused." To me that just screams greatness!