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Since you asked:

This Dolphin bullying scandal is morphing.

OK, let's get the brain-dead obvious out of the way. 

If you are white - and there is no such thing as an honorary African American primarily because your ancestors were not honorary slaves - you have forfeited forever your right to use the N-word. Especially in any repeatable medium albeit text, phone message, blog, video, or e-mail. You know it, I know it, we know it. Is it a double standard that anyone but white people can use the n-word? Yes, but double standards exist and this is one of them. 

The breaking of this story proves two things: A, the press sucks and gets things wrong all the time by cutting and slicing stories into neat portions, leaving important details on the floor, and, B, there are two sides to every story. 

I've said it before. The press gets athletes wrong all the time. As a result, the public gets athletes wrong all the time. Who doesn't get an athlete wrong? Their teammates. 

Almost all of the sympathy coming out of the Dolphin locker room is not headed towards Jonathan Martin, the alleged victim. It is now going to Richard Incognito. Remove Richard's indefensible use of the N-word and this is a different story. 

But you can't remove it.

Reports are that Martin was a fairly crappy teammate. And the level of hazing/bullying he got that made him crack was not exclusive to him at all. Fact was, Martin was a bit of a slacker and aloof. 

Let's face it, a tattooed racist who left an n-word message who so cruelly tortured his mixed-race teammate he had an emotional breakdown? That is a great story. And we - I - ate it up. It just wasn't this story. 


Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Incognito is a good guy; he was kicked off of two college teams, and he is a dirty player. I'm just not convinced he is Osama bin Laden in cleats. 


Martin says he was forced to pay $10,000 for a Vegas trip he did not go on? Not what happened. The linemen went out of their way to include him and invite him on a Vegas trip that required they front the deposit. Martin said he would go, they included his fees and paid his way, and then Martin bailed last second.

Not close to the same story. If this story is so wrong, what about the other ones? 

And the "Mean Girls" prank of getting up and leaving a table when someone sits down that finally cracked Martin? It was a running joke they did to everyone who had been sick, like Martin had been sick. It's a light-hearted "Hey, we don't want to catch what you have" gag.  

None of us were in the locker room nor training camp, so we don't know what really went down. Here is what I do know: NFL players have played games with broken bones and concussions. Ronnie Lott had his crushed finger amputated so he wouldn't miss next week's playoff game. Martin will miss two games because his feelings were hurt from being bullied? 

There is a lot more news to come.