But the kids playing football today have nothing to do with it.
They are just guys trying to do their best to win games, but now their victories are somehow unworthy.

It doesn't wash well.

I'm not trying to defend what happened.
I'm saying that it has Zero to do with what the kids playing on the field today have accomplished.

The past may make us want to vomit, and we should never forget, but if we hold on to it as a scarlet letter it helps no one. If we look at is as something to learn from so it never happens again everyone moves forward even through the pain.