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Originally Posted by David
I never played football but a good current friend did play college ball. When things like this happen, he says he's not surprised because football players are trained and used to a lot of violence and many find it hard to let it go.
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Another thing with the culture of highly skilled athletes, especially football players they are often not held accountable for bad behavior from as far back as high school. They get a pass on many things we non elite would have to pay a price for because they are often "needed" for their skillset that benefits the team, coaches and institutions.
A perfect example would be Arron Hernandez. He was a troubled teen and had a number of incidents while in college at Florida under Urban Meyer that would have gotten rank and file students shown the door or even arrested. They become accustomed and expect to live by a different set of rules from us mere mortals.