Pharaoh Brown and other Oregon Ducks players accused of bullying

Oh the humanity!!!!!!!

Maybe not the kind of thing most prosecutors would usually bother with. . . But there are cases where such things have been prosecuted as felony battery, at least in Illinois, where I am. This could easily result in prison time, if a prosecutor chose to pursue it.

Was getting out of the car a smart thing to do?

Really confused by the "world getting soft" comments.

Respect for elders isn't some newfangled idea. This wasn't ok forty years ago, or forty years before that, or forty years before that. Snow, spitballs, even just words, it didn't matter...you just didn't go after somebody decades older than you are.

Just be kids having fun!

I miss being young, Michigan was good and men were men. A fight at school got you 3 days suspension, now you get the police called and a criminal record. Hey, lets fucking over-react to everything!

Having been a part of the '02 West Quad-South Quad snowball fight, I'd say this was pretty tame. I got my shit wrecked by a football player after nailing Marlin Jackson in the face/neck with a water balloon. Before you accuse me of being dirty, West Quad was armed with pre-made iceballs. There were multiple blood stains out front the next morning; I saw one girl with her chin split wide open. It was brutal.

It's stupid.. Looks to be in good fun.. But, Bullying.. Come on

I never would have thought people throwing snow would be a divisive issue.

Serious question. A "potential mob" of people are blocking the road and pelting the vehicle with snowballs. What is the legal ramification/ consequence for a driver who continued down the road and hit/injured someone who is blocking the road and throwing snowballs at the car?

Throwing snowballs at a car or willing people is not a big deal.  Blocking someone's car who you don't know, throwing snow in their face, and then continuing to throw snowballs at them after they clearly are upset about the incident- not so much.  While I don't really think that anyone should be seriously punished for the situation, if I were Coach Helfrich at Oregon I would definitely let the players know that I was upset and they would be running a lot of sprints next practice.  This looks pretty bad, I felt uncomfortable watching it..

If these were regular students, I'd have less of a problem with it. It would be just as stupid, but because they are ball players, it's troubling. We were always reminded that our standards are higher than other students, that the spotlight is bigger, that we were living under a microscope. We didn't want to embarrass the guys who came before us. We acted not just out of the pride of the name in on the back of the jersey, but the name in front as well. There are always going to be fuckups (I was one of them), but its disappointing to see ball players act like assholes.

seems like they talked it out at the end.

 

i wish that guy would have got out of that car and decked the first kid he saw. that would have been awesome.

A bunch of college students didn't have class due to the snow and so took the opportunity to have a snowball fight. No problem with that.

 

Then they started pelting them at cars, I have a problem with that. These things happen though. 

Then they stand in the street so a car can't leave and start heaving snowballs at it. In addition they dump buckets of snow at the car. When the man in the car, a retired professor, steps out of his car to confront them. A bucket of snow is dumped inside his car. This has gone past good taste and instead can be very dangerous. 

It was a snowball fight, let's not act like the professor got out of his car and was jumped by 150 kids

and pelted with snow by a couple dozen kids while being videoed.  Got out to try to extricate himself and had buckets more snow dumped on him.  I promise you he was nervous.  Does anyone deserve a court date?  No, of course not. Does someone deserve pre-breakfast visits with the stadium bleachers?  I would think so. 

The really cool (if unlikely) dream would be the guys we have (Ferns, Pipkins, and Wormley seem stand up) are being trained to be better than this shit or even provide leadership to stop it. 

Glad it wasn't me having my evening wrecked by a mob of kids. 

Snowball could cause a head contusion or worse. It's 2013 you guys. Man was trying to defend his property. Should have dialed 911. What? No attorneys to take the case? I cannot believe it.

SNOWBALL FIGHT! South Quad rules.

A few college students throwing snowballs in a fairly benevolent manner now passes as bullying? I guess bullying is on the eye of the beholder then, because to me that was actually pretty funny.

It seemed to me pretty good-natured and not at all malicious. If you don't like it, just slowly drive through and put it behind you. That was super-soft, fluffy snow and it wasn't hurting anybody or anything. What I would NOT do is go straight up to confront a random girl who seemingly wasn't involved anyway....if you ask me, that guy was kind of a wussy for doing that and deserved a few shots. In that situation, if you step out of the car, you should expect to get pelted.

I'm 46 and maybe I just haven't reached the 'get off my lawn' stage yet (hopefully never will), but I would have laughed and smiled and joined in the joke as I drove through and maybe waved a bit.  If I got out of the car, it would have been 'GAME ON' for a snowball fight and some laughs.

TBH, I feel bad for football players/athletes in a way becuase there were a ton of students taking part in that and they get singled out anhd have their names posted/shamed for some fairly innocuous behavior. I would hate to have to walk around worried about people judging my every move all the time. 

Where do I find that 'Why so serious?' meme graphic anyway? Consider it posted here.

I can't believe some people on here are defending the kids.

He was just suspended for his role in the "fight". Wow

Link to the suspension news:

Oregon tight end Pharaoh Brown is suspended for Alamo Bowl for role in campus snowball fight