OT: Bart Starr Suffered Brutal Hazing at Alabama
Brutal details emerged today about the hazing Bart Starr endured at Alabama in the 1950s. It caused an injury that still plagues him today.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2016/02/nfl_legend_bart_starr_was_vi…
I blame Saban
Spellcheck is your friend. It's "Satan".
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#thanksobama
I wonder how many other players at other schools caught similar beatings and took it to their graves because that is what "being a good team mate" meant. There is a fierce sense of loyalty that seems to overcome logic and self-preservation and it’s a fucking shame it was exploited like this.
Also bama is still the fucking worst
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My question is that if this behavior was happening at bama do you think we'd have heard anything about it?
institutional control??
Seems like the stupidest thing ever to hurt your team like that.
The beating was so bad Bama claimed a National Title for it
brutally injure one of your top players. Surprising, since I know Alabama was such a progressive place in the 50's
Easier to do this, then haze.
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Turns out that refs last name is Sankey....Hmmmmmmmm
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This type of thing was rampant, of course, but I don't think too many other schools' fans would side with fiction vs a great alumnus.
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While that sounds like pretty bad hazing, I expected something worse. I assumed they had crammed something up his Bart Starrfish at some point...
This also brought something else to mind... Maybe they aren't racist in Alabama after all. Maybe they're just assholes?
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can't they be both?
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ......... Fucking Brilliant!!!!!!
always with the paddling.
/nttawwt (the gay, not the beating)
Sounds like the next best seller coming out would be called 50 Shades of Crimson.
Hard to believe. Alabama in the 1950's was a very peaceful and welcoming place.
It's not like this sort of thing wasn't going on all over the place. My dad went to a small engineering college in the 70's and his rush stories are......interesting. The Lords of Discipline and The Long Grey Line have some stories about training practices that would not last a second today. It was a different world then, Bart Starr's story is horrifying, but this wasn't confined just to Alabama or even the South.
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But I am so glad we've moved past this level of retardation in society. How the hell this sort of shit was ever accepted is beyond me. Anybody who thinks this is or ever was OK should really get some counseling.
So by beating one of the best QBs in the country because he, what, married his wife and she wasn't at Alabama, the school lost a bunch of games they probably shouldn't and apparently severely injured a famous alum. What stupidity.
it's not like it was university-sanctioned and it seems like most people had no idea about it. It's also nothing to do with it being Bama or the South in the 1950s.
Fraternal men's organizations have had initiation rituals since our days as hunter-gatherers. Whether it's the natives of the Amazon wearing arm-length gloves filled with bullet ants, "blood in" beatings in gangs, pube shaving in the NHL, various fraternity rituals, Free Mason initiations, or the Crossing The Line ritual in the Navy..anthropologically it is quite easy to see why it has been done. It's a test of determination (no-one who isn't 100% serious about joining a group would go through such a ritual), toughness and courage. it creates a tight bond between the members as they all went through the same experience unlike outsiders and they can all say they proved their worth by withstanding it.
It wouldn't have been so universally practiced if groups didn't derive some value from it. At the same time I'm glad that I never was hazed myself.
I am sure we would be surprised to know what happens inside every school. I don't think this was endemic to Alabama. I think quite a few fans remember the first season Bear Bryant spent with the Aggies. Some of those activities would be considered cruel in today's standard.