In most cases, I would respond to an understandable yet impossible to address complaint with "that's what the money is for". In the curious case of Odell Beckham Jr., however, the reason why his life is so often interrupted is at least part of the reason why the Giants were so stubborn in offering an All-World talent the type of contract he was deserving of. After all, it's not every superstar athlete that is getting stopped in the streets for impromptu dance-offs. It's just the superstar athlete that makes a spectacle of himself literally any time he's in front of a lens. I don't want to be too critical of OBJ, as his affability is what we like to see out of athletes and a vast majority of his antics are completely harmless. However, if all people ever see of you is a flashy, gregarious showman then that's probably who some people are going to assume you are when they actually see you. Whether that's right or wrong is largely irrelevant, as it's at least mildly disingenuous for the NFL's preeminent attention whore to be upset with the type and the timing of the attention he's getting. As someone who treats stop-and-chats as the bane of my existence, I sympathize with even the most well-compensated of public figures for occasionally wanting to go about their day unbothered. Unfortunately, as someone who has far too often found myself rolling my eyes at the extracurriculars of OBJ, I have to stifle that sympathy for a larger-than-life personality who is the furthest thing from innocent in giving people the impression that he's always open for business. Personally, I think the 19 million dollars a year makes up for the constant inconvenience, but if I'm going to buy in to Odell Beckham Jr. comparing himself to a caged lion then I refuse to ignore that he made himself into the main attraction with how often he roared. In essence, the lines between person, player, and performer only stand to be made blurrier the more you quickly jump through them like they are part of a hopscotch board.
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