Bully for you

Before I seriously discuss this, how awesome is it that the guy's name is Incognito? Honestly, I don't follow football that closely, and for at least a week I thought they were concealing someone's name.

Anyway, we seem to be entering the "he said, she said" phase of this, where Martin's side is contrasted to Incognito's side. With all due respect to those weighing the conflicting statements, calling this stupid is an insult to stupid people. Asking Incognito if he was really bullying Martin is like asking the head of Aryan Nation if he's a racist. "Of course not," he's say, "I'm just standing up for the people of my own race." Or something like that. Nobody admits to being a racist or to being a bully for one (or both) of 2 reasons- either because even the aforementioned stupid people know that admitting to being a racist or bully is a bad move, and/or because they don't realize that they are.

Does anyone really think the bully every has a genuine understanding of the feelings of the person he or she is bullying? Or is even attempting to gain and understanding? It's antithetical to the whole bully mentality. You can't take the other people's feelings into account and act like that, unless you're a sociopath, which from my angle doesn't make it look any better from Incognito's perspective. If someone is beating the crap out of someone else (and I mean physically or otherwise), who do you ask if it hurts? The aggressor or the victim? Which one of those two will have a better idea?

As I've noted here before, football is a simple and brutish game. I'm not suggesting that all football players are dumb brutes, but it's not a sport that excludes dumb brutes either. That's fine, but you don't put those guys even unofficially in charge, as it seems Incognito was with the 'phins.