Monday, November 4, 2013

His Nickname Is Probably "Tiny"



In an amusing bit of irony, a football player named Incognito is the subject of a lot of news headlines


Incognito:  adjective.  Having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, especially to avoid notice or formal attentions.  I'd say having your name and picture splattered all over CNN and ESPN is the opposite of that. 


Football suffers from sharing the bulk of its playing season with Hockey, as you can well imagine.  That said, for the most part, football is played one day out of the week, and the other six, we can pretty safely ignore it.  The NFL tries to make it more relevant by having games on Thursday (which everybody hates) and monday (which nobody stays awake long enough to watch).  But you can't argue the fact that football is relevant that one day out of the week, so we can talk about it here for a bit.  

Apparently, it's become news that football players can be mean to each other.  Nowhere is this worse than in Miami, where one of the team's players has been suspended from the team for "conduct detrimental to the team" which by and large consists of being too mean to the rookies.  


To be clear, Jeremy is by no means condoning or marginalizing the topic of bullying.  He's using hyperbole to make a joke.  This message especially goes out to all of the very large football players who may be offended by this.  


The part of this story that's actually amusing is that the guy who got suspended is named "Incognito," and he's doing a remarkably poor job avoiding notice or formal attentions.  Perhaps if he kept a lower key, none of this would be an issue. 

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