Analysis has uncovered one of the reasons/where some of the blame exists for the shocking existence of Incognito along with the sometimes cruelly ultra-hyper macho lockeroom environment. These culprits can be found by getting up from your computer, going to the nearest mirror, pointing your finger.
This is akin to cooking a T bone steak while being appalled at a story detailing what goes on at a slaughterhouse. With all due respect, if you consume NFL products (watching the game, buying apparel, visiting/watching NFL sites, etc etc) you carry some of the "blame" for the "incomprehensible" existence of Incognito and the many players who are almost as incomprehensible (to support this kind of "grotesque" makes you bad too, right?). But ask yourself this, did you not know the NFL product is based in part on being the nastiest, most violent employee you can be? Were you unaware that players are judged on having their body parts broken/mangled and their flesh torn yet remaining on the field? Did it occur to you that when two large men running at high speed hit head first there will be trauma to their heads (kind of odd that Incognito is getting more outrage than this)? Were you unaware of the very interesting conveyor belt system that has top level learning institutes for medicine, justice, philosophy, teaching, leadership replenishing the Incognitos/the NFL product? Even to the smaller degrees, were you unaware of the double standards applied to star football players where very bad behavior is overlooked/swept under the rug prior to entering the NFL? Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
My guess is Incognito stepped over the line in terms of what occurs on a more frequent basis within the hyper-macho environment, but I'd also guess he didn't step that much over it. If it was that much then most all of the other players would be reacting like some here on this board are, how the media is reacting. A shocked and/or disbelief by what happened (though I doubt their reaction would also include the righteous indignation). And while I am good with this situation causing the NFL/teams to define clearer lines on what will be a disciplinary behavior, the hyper-macho environment and the cruelness that comes with something like that will not change to a significant degree. So try to be honest with yourself about what the NFL is and what the "deal" is to be a fan of it. The NFL provides a very entertaining product. Yet it provides it by way of some serious ugliness of its underbelly. But if you don't like that, if you expect one without the other, then you should also expect a significantly different on field product. That's just reality.
Lastly, specific to incognito, he for sure doesn't seem a very likable person (though I don't have much to go off of). Yet if he is blackballed completely from the NFL, IMHO it will be an injustice. It will be the case of a sacrificial lamb. It will be a case of knee jerk media driven superficial justice.
