Jonathan Martin and the Miami Dolphins

[SpeedTchr]

The way I hear it is Martin tried to confront his tormentor, but couldn't find him because he was...

 

[LongTimeListener]

One thing I've been wondering about is the part where Incognito says he is going to slap Martin's "real mother." Could that be a sign that Incognito got close enough to Martin to find out some secrets and then threw those secrets back at him, and maybe out into the open?

I remember reading an article years back that Warren Sapp did precisely that to a teammate.

 

[hondo]

I'm wondering about all this rookie hazing and making them pick up $20K tabs. How much does it actually go on? Only to the first-rounders who can afford it? A seventh-rounder sure couldn't.
And does anyone think for a second that Bible-Beaters like Tebow or Ponder would have paid for 20 bottles of wine, booze, beer?
Then there's this: does a guy like Andrew Luck go through this? I'm telling you, if I was Luck and some asshole veteran demanded I finance a trip to Vegas, I'd have to say: "fork you. I'm the only reason you stumblebums are competitive now. You forking take me out to dinner."

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Drip and asses. The latest in a series.

I'm not saying I would've whipped his ass but I damn sure can guarantee you that he would've had a helluva fight.

Um, what's you're height and weight again?

 

[joe]

You're in a room with Richie Incognito, Hitler and Walter O'Malley. You have a gun with just two bullets in it. Who do you shoot?

 

[Point of Order]

The way I hear it is Martin tried to confront his tormentor, but couldn't find him because he was...

You biscuit!

 

[spikechiquet]

@SI_JimTrotter

Said one personnel man (who's not alone): "Instead of being a man and confronting him, (Martin) acted like a coward and told like a kid."

These folks (and the folks here) who are blaming the victim are full of shirt. I'm supposed to believe that folks too cowardly to attach their name to their criticism would have the guts to stand up to a 6'5" monster? Sure.

And, what other victims should be required to solve their own problems? Should a woman, facing sexual harassment at work, just deal with it one-on-on with the harasser? Is that what you would recommend to your wife?

What if this shirthead had been bulling a sportswriter? What if he continually walked into a sportswriter on purpose, called him names, and threatened him? The sportswriter should have just brought a bat to the locker room, right?

I dunno man, I've seen some real Internet tough guys handing it to Incognito on Twitter -- really giving him the business with the hashtags, the @ing him, and whatnot. I mean, you don't see Internet-shaming like that from your everyday wuss. In fact, I imagine the bravado they display from behind their keyboards are only a mere fraction of the fury they would unleash if they had the good fortune to meet him face-to-face in a dark alley. Yeah, he'd be lucky to make it out alive.

In 2012 Incognito was give the Pro Football Writers Good Guy Award for Miami so I guess he has not attacked
sports writers.

...or he just threatened to beat all of them up unless they gave it to him.

 

[Riptide]

You're in a room with Richie Incognito, Hitler and Walter O'Malley. You have a gun with just two bullets in it. Who do you shoot?

Incognito is a douchebag,
but you still shoot Hitler twice.

 

[Starman]

I'm wondering about all this rookie hazing and making them pick up $20K tabs. How much does it actually go on? Only to the first-rounders who can afford it? A seventh-rounder sure couldn't.
And does anyone think for a second that Bible-Beaters like Tebow or Ponder would have paid for 20 bottles of wine, booze, beer?
Then there's this: does a guy like Andrew Luck go through this? I'm telling you, if I was Luck and some asshole veteran demanded I finance a trip to Vegas, I'd have to say: "fork you. I'm the only reason you stumblebums are competitive now. You forking take me out to dinner."

Any asshole veteran gets on Andrew Luck's case over the last couple of seasons, Luck goes into the GM's office, and by the time he comes out, the asshole vet is going to Vegas, all right, on a very slow Greyhound bus, on a one-way ticket.


But that's because Luck was THE No. 1 pick in the draft.

But Martin wasn't Mr. Irrelevant: he was the No. 42 pick in the draft. Upper half of the second round.

Teams spend a lot of money and invest a lot of resources on upper-half second-round draft choices. Way too much to let a 30-year-old 8th-year player, obtained on waivers, fork with that value.

 

[zagoshe]

He did take care of himself. You just don't like how he chose to do it.

How did he take care of himself?

By giving away $15,000 in lunch money and quitting his job?

Give me a break.

 

[zagoshe]

Zag, how did you feel about the Columbine shooting? They stood up to their bullies with guns, right?

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2012/10/09/7-myths-about-the-columbine-shooting/

"Myth #1: The Columbine killers were social misfits who were bullied by their classmates.

Truth: Eric Harris was a lady's man, a charmer who had a number of good friends at school. Dylan Klebold went to the prom the weekend before the shooting.

Both killers attended football games, dances, and school plays. Despite the media reports, neither of them were linked to the "Trench Coat Mafia." Nor were they part of a street gang or known to dress in Gothic style."

 

[zagoshe]

By threatening to shoot him.

Again: You're clearly a regular joe who has invented an Internet cartoon character to fork with us. There is no other reasonable explanation.

What would you do if someone was trying to extort $15 K from you and forking with you and threatening your family - especially if it was someone you think you might lose a fight to?

The NORMAL response among most people would be, to quote one of your heroes, "use any means necessary" to make it clear that you won't be bullied.

And don't tell me you wouldn't because you are lying if you do.

It is nice to play this pie in the sky "I'd walk away, turn the other cheek and let the authorities handle it because they always handle it the right way and would be able to make it stop...." shirt on the internet but in real life, how many stories a day do we read about stalkers, bullies and harassment assholes who commit an act of violence against their subject because they weren't properly stopped by authorities despite repeated attempts by the victims to get authorities involved.