BogeyMan60
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I can see both sides of the story here, yeah, it looks bad on Richie that he said the N word on a voicemail but its obvious that is something that is accepted in the locker room there and that's something that the outside world will never understand. When you play football those dudes become your brothers so stuff like that really doesn't ruffle any feathers in the locker room unless you are really come out an say it in a obvious degrading, condescending way, or at least that's how it was when I played. No harm, no foul. Some people would probably be off put with the conversations I have with my black friends but those same people won't take into account how long you've been friends and what all you've been through together and how close you are and how when you become friends like that, no body really thinks about it in a way the outside world might. All I'm saying is that it will be hard for someone to understand that locker room culture unless they've been apart of it. I'm not saying Richie is in the right but its obvious where the teams support lies and if everyone would take a step back and stop trying to be so politically correct maybe it wouldn't be such a huge issue. I think that Martin just wasn't really prepared for that type of culture being that the locker room at Stanford and the private high school he attended were no where near as rough as say a SEC or Big 12 locker room where most of these guys are coming from. I'm not saying Richie is in the right but you have to look at things from all perspectives here.
