[zcaveman]

If this thread was just about hazing as in the FAMU hazing I guess there could be a meaningful dialogue. But to compare it to football is ludicrous.

As far back as I can remember there was always hazing in sports. When you joined the baseball, football, basketball or track team, and you were one of the newbies you were subjected to some kind of hazing. It was expected. Carrying the equipment, hot-rub in your jock strap, singing songs, etc. But it was nothing demeaning or physically damaging. Even the pro rookies are subjected to hazing.

What they did at FAMU was beyond hazing. It was brutalizing of the rookies and they should be punished.