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Now that the facts are out, we know:
1. Incognito was Martin's best friend on the team. They hung out religiously, even after the April phone call.
2. Incognito had Martin's back on the field when a fight broke out and in the locker room when people went after Martin.
3. Incognito did not treat Martin worse than anyone else. He was the team jokester, and most players respected him for it.
4. The "racist" bit on the phone call was actually the reverse of what was popularly portrayed. The n-word was used as a compliment to try to rile him up. I.e. he was asking Martin to be more nigXXX. We can debate the acceptability of that all we want, but that's not how it was portrayed.
5. Incognito had specifically been given the task to fire up Martin. It was widely believed that would involve some tough love.
6. His teammates and ex-teammates all support Incognito over Martin. This includes mostly black players, who Incognito is extremely popular with.
7. The "blackmailing" from the Vegas trip wasn't a blackmail at all. It was a prepaid vacation Martin agreed to and then cancelled.
8. The one paper outlet which has supported Incognito is the Miami Herald. Not coincidentally, those are the people who actually hang out with both parties.
9. Martin never asked offensive line teammates to calm down Incognito. He never spoke to the his coaches. As far as we know, he never even spoke to Incognito. His only contact that we know of was his agent talking to the GM.
10. Now that the facts and locker room support Incognito, they have decided to throw someone else under the bus (GM Jeff Ireland).
There were a lot of people on this site who rushed to judgment to condemn a man based on early reports and preconceived notions. You have now been shown to be wrong. It's time to admit that you made a mistake. It happens. However, you should not let the media manipulate you and assist in this destruction of a man's life just so one player could try to salvage is career after a mental breakdown.
1. Incognito was Martin's best friend on the team. They hung out religiously, even after the April phone call.
2. Incognito had Martin's back on the field when a fight broke out and in the locker room when people went after Martin.
3. Incognito did not treat Martin worse than anyone else. He was the team jokester, and most players respected him for it.
4. The "racist" bit on the phone call was actually the reverse of what was popularly portrayed. The n-word was used as a compliment to try to rile him up. I.e. he was asking Martin to be more nigXXX. We can debate the acceptability of that all we want, but that's not how it was portrayed.
5. Incognito had specifically been given the task to fire up Martin. It was widely believed that would involve some tough love.
6. His teammates and ex-teammates all support Incognito over Martin. This includes mostly black players, who Incognito is extremely popular with.
7. The "blackmailing" from the Vegas trip wasn't a blackmail at all. It was a prepaid vacation Martin agreed to and then cancelled.
8. The one paper outlet which has supported Incognito is the Miami Herald. Not coincidentally, those are the people who actually hang out with both parties.
9. Martin never asked offensive line teammates to calm down Incognito. He never spoke to the his coaches. As far as we know, he never even spoke to Incognito. His only contact that we know of was his agent talking to the GM.
10. Now that the facts and locker room support Incognito, they have decided to throw someone else under the bus (GM Jeff Ireland).
There were a lot of people on this site who rushed to judgment to condemn a man based on early reports and preconceived notions. You have now been shown to be wrong. It's time to admit that you made a mistake. It happens. However, you should not let the media manipulate you and assist in this destruction of a man's life just so one player could try to salvage is career after a mental breakdown.
I suppose the part of the conversation where he said he wanted to fuck him in the mouth was was to motiviate him too.
does that even mean ? Everyone is "multi-dimensional". But if one of those dimensions is that they get off on bullying others they need to stop and we shouldn't encourage it as a society because it's not helpful. You made a claim in another post yesterday stating that you'd been bullied in every job you've ever had and it was no big deal or something to that effect. I replied that this hasn't been my experience in 40+ years of employment in variety of jobs and wondered what sort of jobs you've held where this was the case. You never replied and I'm still wondering. In what industry or occupation is bullying in the workplace amongst co-workers a plus for the organization and how so ? I'm not discounting the possibility that there are isolated instances, but I would guess that they're very specialized cases and few and far between.
