“I played football till junior year and my dad played for VMI and was drafted by the Giants in YA era. I know scores of football players. Neither of us nor them were rapists”
Of course you are absolutely right, but I can’t help but thinking that things have changed a bit in football, as they have in society in general. The local high school where I live had a student-based steroid ring, for example. I grew up thinking of athletes as role models. One of them from my very early youth, Ernie Banks, was just lost to us. I think we’ve become a progressively more cynical culture, with more anger and less innocence, and it will destroy us if we don’t do better.
” I can’t help but thinking that things have changed a bit in football, as they have in society in general.”
Maybe. I knew of a couple of similar incidents when I was in high school in the late ‘60s. All it takes is a narcissistic personality in a school that worships athletic prowess and you can get trouble. Throw in alcohol and drugs and you’re guaranteed trouble.