Not all players are family, though. A football team is like any other office. You have your friends, and then guys who are little more than acquaintances. Guys are from all over the country, and are all different ages. The notion that pro players are out hanging together all the time is wrong. While I personally would've gone, I don't fault him if he wasn't a friend of Hill's. There were plenty of guys on our team at Michigan that I wasn't anything more than a casual acquaintance of, and others that were great friends of mine.
Coaches say that a team is a family. It doesn't mean everyone is best friends.