Per Wickstrom CEO of Best Drug Rehabilitation adresses several former Detroit Lions and Tigers players about the youth of today. He asks if they think the kids today have a harder time than they did 25 years ago.
Sportscaster Dan Miller seems to think so. “I think it’s harder now just because we’re so bombarded by so many different images, and so many things fly at these kids that I think I think they have more to handle than we do.”
Rob Rubick, former Tight End for the Detroit Lions, knows that kids are going to experiment with alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs. He says that the problem comes after they experiment and he thinks it is peer pressure. “I have a peer resistance team. I take a bunch of very outstanding high school kids and we perform skits on dealing with peer pressure.”
Denny McLain, former Detroit Tigers player, says that he thinks the older we get, the more we think about giving back. “you hear so much early on in your career that one day you have to give back, give back, give back but nobody tells you how or when. And then all of a sudden the light will go off and you know. Then you get involved and you do what you need to do.”
Lem Barney, former cornerback for the Detroit Lions, thinks that execution is the key. “It’s the actual application of the programs that we need to focus on. There are many programs but if you don’t apply the programs to your children, to your youth, and in your community it’s not gonna work at all.
The “Spirit of Detroit” award is then presented to Per Wickstrom. “It’s presented with as an expression of gratitude and esteem of the citizens of the City of Detroit to Per Wickstrom in recognition of exceptional achievement, outstanding leadership, and dedication to improving the quality of life for all those here in the City of Detroit and signed a Spirit of Detroit Award signed by all nine of my colleagues for Per Wickstrom tonight. We celebrate you.”
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