People spending their time blaming Martin... "He should have just slugged them", "Have tougher skin", "Just avoid them", etc. Classic victim blaming. God help your kids if they ever get bullied, hurt, abused, and they turn to you for help.
Good for Martin for standing up for himself in the great American way- through lawyers. The team ignores his pleas for help? Meet me in the courtroom. Martin can do 10x the damage here without throwing a single punch. So actually, he IS fighting back. I hope they throw the book at Incognito hard enough that his head comes clean off.
Nobody bullies Steve Smith anymore. Pop a guy in the soup coolers during a film session for making fun of you, word gets around.
Have any of you put the cheetoh bag down long enough to play organized ball? Rookie hazing has been going on since they filled Jay Berwanger's leather helmet with a healthy handful of Burma Shave. Granted, I was just a punter and didn't get the level of hazing that the lineman did to each other, but I saw my share.
If it were up to some of you, Ralphie in A Christmas Story would have run crying to his teacher instead of laying some jabs on the bully. No wonder kids these days don't stand up for themselves. They're taught it's better to hide behind your mothers skirt than growing some balls and ending the bullying yourself. Martin is just the latest example of the generation of daisies that permeate our landscape these days. Grow a pair, Nancy.