With the Miami Dolphins locker room scandal dominating headlines the past week, hazing, bullying and general locker room culture has come front and center. Bears Brandon Marshall used the scenario to highlight how men in general are taught from an early age to supress their emotions. When you view the NFL through this prism he said that showing weakness of any sort will get a player pushed to the outskirts of the culture:
The NBA recently sent out a memo to all 30 of its teams reminding them that bullying won’t be tolerated. Although the NBA’s locker room culture isn’t generally quite as rowdy.
While that was happening, footage of New Orleans Pelican big man Anthony Davis surfaced from his lone season at the University of Kentucky being spanked in the locker room.