Ryan Moats: An Athlete Who's a Role Model

Ryan Moats continues to impress me with his attitude. There's been plenty media accounts of the incident that took place while he was trying to get himself, his wife, and family members to the side of his mother-in-law as she had only a few minutes left to live.

The best account of the story and article written for further background is by Robert Allred who wrote the article "Houston Texans Running Back Ryan Moats Robbed of Opportunity to Say Goodbye."

Moats today was on the show Good Morning America and stated that he would accept officer Robert Powell's apology and that he hopes that it was sincere.

There's a quote from Yahoo's article titled "NFL Players Accepts Officers Apology" from the written apology from Powell.

“I wish to publicly and sincerely apologize to the Moats family, my colleagues in the Dallas Police Department, and to all those who have been rightfully angered by my actions on March 18, 2009. After stopping Mr. Moats’ vehicle, I showed poor judgment and insensitivity to Mr. Moats and his family by my words and actions.”

It states further in the article that Tamishia Moats, Ryan Moats's wife would like to hear the apology, because it is one thing to write something, but it's totally another thing to verbalize the apology.

It also speaks to the character of both Ryan and Tamishia that they are willing to accept the apology from an officer that clearly did something very wrong.

Moats also has shown that there are still role models that are athletes. From accepting the apology of Powell to him never once losing his cool.