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08-05-2003, 11:53 AM
Updated August 5, 2003
POLL: MAJORITY CALL ATHLETES THEIR NUMBER ONE FEAR
Jocks Top Terrorism, War in New Survey
In a new survey of likely voters, a broad majority named athletes as their
number one fear, as the scary jocks topped terrorism and war for the first
time in the history of such polls.
Professional athletes outpaced college athletes by a slim margin to take
the top honors as what Americans fear most, but even collegiate jocks were
seen as a "much greater" threat to personal safety than such widely known
worry-makers as Kim Jong-Il of North Korea.
According to the survey, a majority of Americans fear that they will
someday be the victim of an athlete's wrath after an unfortunate encounter
in a restaurant, bar, hotel, disco, nightclub, clothing store, parking lot
or airport lounge.
When asked, "How worried are you that you may be attacked by a
professional athlete in the next twelve months," forty-two percent replied
"somewhat worried," twenty-nine percent replied "very worried,"
twenty-eight percent replied "very, very worried" and one percent replied,
"I am currently being attacked by an athlete at this very moment."
Dr. David Danton, who has spent the last twenty years at the University of
Minnesota studying voters' fears of professional and amateur athletes,
said that the new survey spells trouble for Democratic presidential
hopeful Howard Dean.
"Dean has been talking almost nonstop about Iraq, but has said almost
nothing about what he would do to protect the country from athletes," Dr.
Danton said. "He's vulnerable on this issue."
In a related story, legal experts noted the irony of L.A. Laker Kobe
Bryant's weekend win of a Teen Choice Award, since his trial is likely to
focus on whether or not a teen had a choice.
POLL: MAJORITY CALL ATHLETES THEIR NUMBER ONE FEAR
Jocks Top Terrorism, War in New Survey
In a new survey of likely voters, a broad majority named athletes as their
number one fear, as the scary jocks topped terrorism and war for the first
time in the history of such polls.
Professional athletes outpaced college athletes by a slim margin to take
the top honors as what Americans fear most, but even collegiate jocks were
seen as a "much greater" threat to personal safety than such widely known
worry-makers as Kim Jong-Il of North Korea.
According to the survey, a majority of Americans fear that they will
someday be the victim of an athlete's wrath after an unfortunate encounter
in a restaurant, bar, hotel, disco, nightclub, clothing store, parking lot
or airport lounge.
When asked, "How worried are you that you may be attacked by a
professional athlete in the next twelve months," forty-two percent replied
"somewhat worried," twenty-nine percent replied "very worried,"
twenty-eight percent replied "very, very worried" and one percent replied,
"I am currently being attacked by an athlete at this very moment."
Dr. David Danton, who has spent the last twenty years at the University of
Minnesota studying voters' fears of professional and amateur athletes,
said that the new survey spells trouble for Democratic presidential
hopeful Howard Dean.
"Dean has been talking almost nonstop about Iraq, but has said almost
nothing about what he would do to protect the country from athletes," Dr.
Danton said. "He's vulnerable on this issue."
In a related story, legal experts noted the irony of L.A. Laker Kobe
Bryant's weekend win of a Teen Choice Award, since his trial is likely to
focus on whether or not a teen had a choice.