UPDATE: @Jaboowins made it official with a Twitter post of his own.
The news was broken by @ShamsChania on Twitter below.
More from @nick underhill on specifics below.
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hard to educate players on domestic violence. so is terry bradshaw, right, congressman? oh, my goodness, yeah, absolutely. i mean, this is ridiculous. not only, obviously, what he did, the domestic violence, terrible, unacceptable, but then to basically have zero humility about it afterwards and not, you know, beg for forgiveness, but to make a rap video saying i m not going to be played again, this level of arrogance, he should not be playing for the nfl, in my mind, because this is completely 100% unacceptable. and we have to take a stand. as terry said, we have to say violence really against anybody, but especially violence against women has no place in professional sports. boy, that s tough because all they do is hit each over on the field. and i watched this last night, the whole thing, we just had a little clip. i encourage people to go and watch terry bradshaw. he really lays it out. and it makes a huge question mark in my mind, where are those voices like terry s inside nfl
was broken down but never built back up. it s supposed to be a family atmosphere. when the locker room is at its best, it s about fellowship, brotherhood, experiences. the great thing about a locker room is it immediately breaks away all stereotype that say we may or may not have about each other. you know, you come in and there s guys from different ethnic backgrounds, social classes, all coming together for one common goal of the and we learn so much about each other, about how we grow up, the areas in which we live in. and i think that s the part of the locker room that i want people to realize. now, you spent seven years of your life inside an nfl locker room. i know you ve said you re not surprised by the hazing that s described in martin s case, but as a journalist who sees attitudes evolve story by story, i have to wonder is this one of those cases where years ago, it was okay to be the bully on the playground and somebody would say toughen up and then there
are they worried that some fans, women in particular, mothers in particular are not going to like this? yeah, i think there is some public relations involved in everything the nfl does these days. there s a lot of things coming out, not only about the locker room stuff, but about the health of the players, about former players struggles, about the head injuries. and the nfl is scrambling to improve their image on all fronts. and so when a negative story comes out, the nfl is on top of it with press releases and things of that nature. and i think we should take it all with a grain of salt and understand that they have a bottom line that they re protecting and they re worried about negative press. nate jackson, bart scott, we re waiting for that video to come out from yincognito. again, thanks for taking the time to talk to us. we ll be right back. [ laughter ]
were anti-bullying campaigns. it wasn t okay in grade school, it wasn t okay in college. do we need to get to that point inside an nfl locker room? well, i think we have to establish what bullying is, what hazing is. it s a different world in there. it s a different bubble. like bart was saying, it doesn t matter what background you re from, ethnicity, political views, religious views, socioeconomic backgrounds, you ending up in the same locker room. it s an all male environment. you re doing hand-to-hand environment on a daily basis out on the field so some crude ways of communicating take place. when we look at it from the outside and that s okay because you re a bunch of guys and one man s but isn t one man s brotherhood another man s bullying? possibly, but i know jonathan martin is not the first half black man to play in the nfl, he s not the first guy from stanford or the first guy with ivy league parents. he is the first guy to go to the media and the media is up in ar