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rick wickersays
I completely agree.
We coddle these players and make them leave a game just because of a “concussion”. Professional sports are just like war (without the stakes). I wouldn’t want a soldier/tight end next to me on the battlefield/practice field who hasn’t shown themselves able to hide their emotions until a later time (preferably in retirement or in the offseason).
Tom has a great point as well, if Royce White had been bullied- it would have cured his mental issues- look it up, it’s science. He was actually diagnosed with “Softness” I think. I guess it may have led to something bad, but isn’t that why you have malpractice insurance?
We don’t want to watch sports to see the best athletes, we want to see the ones who can take the most verbal abuse. This is how we teach our kids to suck it up and get tougher.
Donsays
Look, I appreciate that I will never have the insight into the lockerroom that a former athlete has.
But to take his experience and then extrapolate it across all sports and all lockerrooms in all situations is absurd.
“There are no hardcore racists in sports”
Really? You feel comfortable making that absolute a statement when you yourself have only intimate familiarity with one? Please. Unless you’re telling me ALL professional athletes are more enlightened than your average racist, I would guess that the percent of “racists” in the real world isn’t that much larger than the percent of racists in a lockerroom.
You guys have a very different job in an industry that is very different than most others. That does not mean you all suddenly escape general societal woes that everyone falls victim to. I guarantee you’ve played with at least one “hard-core” racist before. And what is the difference between a hard-core racist and a regular one? Are you saying you did play with “normal” racists but were OK with them?
Also, your numerous points contradict yourself on a number of occasions.
You know as little as we do about what happened; you’re just upset some unspoken code was broken. I would think the lockerroom would have codes about not saying stuff about each other’s sisters the way Incognito did. I’m not calling him a racist, but in any context, what he said there was inappropriate and unacceptable; between brothers, between teammates, between whatever you want to call yourselves – you don’t have to sacrifice your humanity to play a sport. It’s the choice you all have decided to make when you write stuff like this.
Tomsays
Well written, honest, and interesting comments on this hot topic. I do however, wish that Royce White could have been bullied before that loon’s career ended…Great work by Sheridan to add Danny Shayes as a columnist.
I completely agree.
We coddle these players and make them leave a game just because of a “concussion”. Professional sports are just like war (without the stakes). I wouldn’t want a soldier/tight end next to me on the battlefield/practice field who hasn’t shown themselves able to hide their emotions until a later time (preferably in retirement or in the offseason).
Tom has a great point as well, if Royce White had been bullied- it would have cured his mental issues- look it up, it’s science. He was actually diagnosed with “Softness” I think. I guess it may have led to something bad, but isn’t that why you have malpractice insurance?
We don’t want to watch sports to see the best athletes, we want to see the ones who can take the most verbal abuse. This is how we teach our kids to suck it up and get tougher.
Look, I appreciate that I will never have the insight into the lockerroom that a former athlete has.
But to take his experience and then extrapolate it across all sports and all lockerrooms in all situations is absurd.
“There are no hardcore racists in sports”
Really? You feel comfortable making that absolute a statement when you yourself have only intimate familiarity with one? Please. Unless you’re telling me ALL professional athletes are more enlightened than your average racist, I would guess that the percent of “racists” in the real world isn’t that much larger than the percent of racists in a lockerroom.
You guys have a very different job in an industry that is very different than most others. That does not mean you all suddenly escape general societal woes that everyone falls victim to. I guarantee you’ve played with at least one “hard-core” racist before. And what is the difference between a hard-core racist and a regular one? Are you saying you did play with “normal” racists but were OK with them?
Also, your numerous points contradict yourself on a number of occasions.
You know as little as we do about what happened; you’re just upset some unspoken code was broken. I would think the lockerroom would have codes about not saying stuff about each other’s sisters the way Incognito did. I’m not calling him a racist, but in any context, what he said there was inappropriate and unacceptable; between brothers, between teammates, between whatever you want to call yourselves – you don’t have to sacrifice your humanity to play a sport. It’s the choice you all have decided to make when you write stuff like this.
Well written, honest, and interesting comments on this hot topic. I do however, wish that Royce White could have been bullied before that loon’s career ended…Great work by Sheridan to add Danny Shayes as a columnist.