Passed from hand to loving hand because he’s a violent psycho built like a brick shithouse … Passed from the University of Nebraska to the University of Oregon and then to the Rams and the Dolphins, the rich and celebrated football player Richie Incognito will be back on the field in a flash on some other team, as soon as he works his way through his latest dust-up; and the only reason the Dolphins are a mite nervous about this latest incident is that along the way it reveals that a lot of the other guys on the Dolphins team are … well… not certifiable, but in every other way strikingly similar to Richie.
Here’s how a Miami sports writer puts it:
This puts bullying on the NFL radar, at least. It forces the league to understand that it must be worried about more than just the concussion-related safety of its players or their arrests for stuff like DUIs or domestic abuse.
Yes, UD likes the way this guy puts it. Looks as though the NFL is going to have to start worrying about “not just” the concussion, DUI, and domestic abuse thing (yawn). Because le sujet du jour is bullying – regular old garden variety locker room bullying, as well as the incredibly well-compensated bats-in-the-belfry brutality of Incognito.
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“Richie is … this seems to be a person with a tortured soul.”
Brace yourself for the Offensive-Linesman-as-Dostoevsky defense.
Brace yourself for the televangelist who will train Incognito to look like this on camera.
Brace yourself.
November 5th, 2013 at 12:08AM
The same football “culture” that sired Icognito also sired Ray Lewis, a linebacker that was implicated in a 2000 murder at a night club, Aaron Hernandez, who not only is charged with a recent murder, but was implicated in possible homicides while at U of Florida, Mike Vick, he of dog killing infamy, Jovan Belcher, a Kansas City Chief’s linebacker, who shot his girlfriend to death and later committed suicide at the football stadium. That is only what comes to mind, too many to list incidents of wife beatings, negligent homicides, domestic abuse are readily available.
Leaving Belcher aside, Vick, Hernandez and Lewis were allowed to continue playing. Keep in mind that the NFL has its own investigative capacity to determine the character of their players and prospective draftees. They team owners know what kind of people they hire. They want psychopaths, because they make very good football players. Carefully crafted PR maintains the lie that the players are of high quality, willing at a moments notice to help build a playground, or do some other community charity.
But Icognito did the unthinkable, he called one of his teammates a ‘n***r,” and threatened to beat that player’s mother. And was stupid enough to leave audio evidence of his depravity. The NFL can spin away murder and wife beating, they can’t racism and mother beating. That’s the reason that Icognito is gone, not because he’s a degenerate idiot, but because he left readily available evidence that he a degenerate idiot. If he had said it in the locker room, no problem. The result won’t be to clean up the league, it will be to make sure you don’t do your bullshit on the phone. And the owners want more public subsidies, which the public seems to have no problem giving….
November 5th, 2013 at 11:53AM
Richie Incognito sounds like a Dick Tracy villain.