If this pole is in fact true....it shows once again the knuckle-dragging meathead mentality of athletes.
I agree, but this is not any other job or business. It's athletics. It's different. And this isn't just athletics, it's football, the most violent sport of them all. Save the hockey comparison for someone more open-minded than I am. Even James said in a now famous interview, when addressing a run-up in campus "incidents" involving his "student athletes", and I paraphrase, you are recruiting a different kind of kid ... you're looking for, in many instances, a kid with a wild hair up his ass. You're looking for killers. And you are.
This is pro football. Any 300+ lb. offensive lineman who can be bullied is not an offensive lineman I want to pay millions of dollars to play. Do you think Gogan or Kreutz or Garcia or Kennedy or Malamala could have been "bullied" as rookies? I don't. I think they would have done what they needed to do under whatever hazing tradition they were dealing with, and if/when it crossed their line, they would have stood on the line and said, "fuck you you overrated roided up Nebraska piece of shit. come get your $ you faggot mother fucker." or words to that effect.
I would have liked to have met the mother fucker who could "bully" Sean Taylor. LOL! Yeah, i'd have paid $$ to watch that with a bag of popcorn.