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We all know it.
The reality was that whatever incog did in this - it was not out of the ordinary in the NFL in the larger sense.
The hazing - the teasing - the humiliating - the soft bullying - its all part of the NFL and likely ALWAYS was.
Was Incog out of bounds - outrageous - hurtful - nonsensical - destructive - mean spirited - all of this was likely true.
How awful was he?
He was in the middle.
In the history of the NFL their were for sure way darker stories going on - where people got destroyed in terrible ways.
This last statement was all conjecture on my part - but we know for sure guys are coming out of the league with brain damage.
Now you can argue that those are two different issues but I think they are all the same:
The reality that men can and will get used and abused to no end for the team to get what it is/was after.
Its a brutal sport and a brutal atmosphere in which athletes prepare for simulations of battle and war.
The league has tacitly supported a culture of hazing - largely because hazing came up as the league came up - it was organic..
As the league became wealthier, more prestigious, more elite so did the price it costs to succeed in the league - for the most part - exceptions do exist like Ryan Leaf - but these guys pay in the end because of who they were.
So to bestow an investigation on the Dolphins is in and of itself absurd.
Whatever the Dolphins did or did not do in this case was not any different then most any NFL organization does now or has done in the past or (if not for this scandal) would have done in the future.
Maybe their exists a couple or even a few coaches out there that forbid any hazing or any negative culture in the NFL - they are the exceptions.
The NFL needs a scapegoat because of the changing landscape of social conscientiousness and the litigiousness nature of our society.
If the Commissioner had the integrity it is claiming to demand of the Dolphins they would own it all right now.
They could say we in the front office of the NFL have not properly addressed a long-standing and deeply antequated way of relating in the NFL.
We want the league to survive and thrive into the future.
Our culture and society is changing and the demand is upon us as a league to adapt and change to the evolving culture.
We missed and the Dolphins are caught in the buzz saw of our lack of attention to this matter and re-educate, and mandate that proper safe guards are in check from the league.
We will work with the Dolphins to address the matter accordingly and we mean to assist all parties involved and help them achieve their goals in a fair and equitable manner.
Own and take it and shut the F...ing media up and stop making the Dolphins the whipping boy.
But the league will do none of this and therefore in their lack of integrity 2 things will happen: We dolfans are going to get screwed for years to come. and 2. This "bullying" stuff is gonna bite the league in the ass again and next time everybody's going to be REAL sorry!
The reality was that whatever incog did in this - it was not out of the ordinary in the NFL in the larger sense.
The hazing - the teasing - the humiliating - the soft bullying - its all part of the NFL and likely ALWAYS was.
Was Incog out of bounds - outrageous - hurtful - nonsensical - destructive - mean spirited - all of this was likely true.
How awful was he?
He was in the middle.
In the history of the NFL their were for sure way darker stories going on - where people got destroyed in terrible ways.
This last statement was all conjecture on my part - but we know for sure guys are coming out of the league with brain damage.
Now you can argue that those are two different issues but I think they are all the same:
The reality that men can and will get used and abused to no end for the team to get what it is/was after.
Its a brutal sport and a brutal atmosphere in which athletes prepare for simulations of battle and war.
The league has tacitly supported a culture of hazing - largely because hazing came up as the league came up - it was organic..
As the league became wealthier, more prestigious, more elite so did the price it costs to succeed in the league - for the most part - exceptions do exist like Ryan Leaf - but these guys pay in the end because of who they were.
So to bestow an investigation on the Dolphins is in and of itself absurd.
Whatever the Dolphins did or did not do in this case was not any different then most any NFL organization does now or has done in the past or (if not for this scandal) would have done in the future.
Maybe their exists a couple or even a few coaches out there that forbid any hazing or any negative culture in the NFL - they are the exceptions.
The NFL needs a scapegoat because of the changing landscape of social conscientiousness and the litigiousness nature of our society.
If the Commissioner had the integrity it is claiming to demand of the Dolphins they would own it all right now.
They could say we in the front office of the NFL have not properly addressed a long-standing and deeply antequated way of relating in the NFL.
We want the league to survive and thrive into the future.
Our culture and society is changing and the demand is upon us as a league to adapt and change to the evolving culture.
We missed and the Dolphins are caught in the buzz saw of our lack of attention to this matter and re-educate, and mandate that proper safe guards are in check from the league.
We will work with the Dolphins to address the matter accordingly and we mean to assist all parties involved and help them achieve their goals in a fair and equitable manner.
Own and take it and shut the F...ing media up and stop making the Dolphins the whipping boy.
But the league will do none of this and therefore in their lack of integrity 2 things will happen: We dolfans are going to get screwed for years to come. and 2. This "bullying" stuff is gonna bite the league in the ass again and next time everybody's going to be REAL sorry!
