FLSTF-VOL
Blood runs ORANGE!
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Thats what most schools in the south were labeled in years past. I can remember when football players would ride around in the bed of a pick-up truck drinking beer and shooting up stop signs. Do that today and your hauled in on weapons charges, DUI and possibly being labeled a terrorist. Can anyone imagine how that would read in the headlines today?
This stuff has been going on, on college campuses since the beginning. The only difference is that in this day and age of instant communication via the Internet with reporters doing any and everything to break a story, young police officers trying to make a name for themselves, we hear or read about it almost instantly. Most times the stories are so sensationalized that they rarely resemble the true nature of the actual events.
Back in the day a police officer would go out of their way to try and keep a football player out of trouble. Instead of hauling them off to jail they would haul them off to coach's office and let the coach handle it with stadium stairs, running the hill and a serious a_s chewing. You rarely heard about it.
It amazes me that all of a sudden these kind of things are shocking to some of us.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending anyone or their actions. I'm not saying that football players should get preferential treatment. I'm just saying that what goes on today is really no different than what went on in the past.
Maybe its the way we the public perceive things that is so different.
This stuff has been going on, on college campuses since the beginning. The only difference is that in this day and age of instant communication via the Internet with reporters doing any and everything to break a story, young police officers trying to make a name for themselves, we hear or read about it almost instantly. Most times the stories are so sensationalized that they rarely resemble the true nature of the actual events.
Back in the day a police officer would go out of their way to try and keep a football player out of trouble. Instead of hauling them off to jail they would haul them off to coach's office and let the coach handle it with stadium stairs, running the hill and a serious a_s chewing. You rarely heard about it.
It amazes me that all of a sudden these kind of things are shocking to some of us.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending anyone or their actions. I'm not saying that football players should get preferential treatment. I'm just saying that what goes on today is really no different than what went on in the past.
Maybe its the way we the public perceive things that is so different.
