NFL

I've never really been a fan of football and with players like this running around? Maybe I never will be. Football is already an extremely rough, aggressive, violent sport with men running DIRECTLY at one another and physically TACKLING each other to the ground. One would imagine that with all that violence occurring on the field, that off the field, teammates would stick together. In Richard Cognito's eyes, this clearly isn't the case. It is absolutely ridiculous that he bullied his teammate Martin to the point that he had to quit the team for fear of his own safety. On one hand, I thought "Man up! You wanna hang around the big boys? You've gotta toughen up!" but then I sat back and thought that he must have really been pushed over the edge to leave the team; which is also leaving a fat paycheck. The part that bothered me the most was that no one spoke out against it or tried to stop it. There is no possible way the other teammates, coaches and everyone else had no idea what was going on in that locker room. And it's an absolute shame that no one has done anything about it until now. I hope that Incognito and whoever else was involved is prosecuted to the fullest extent because they deserve it.    

Tweets

This article actually provided me with information I didn't know. I thought that all colleges looked at applicants' social media pages and made assumptions based off of them but apparently that is not the case! It seems crazy that an admissions team would go searching the social networks of EVERY applicant because that would be the most tedious process added on to what they already have to go through. The kids out there tweeting dumb things about schools while they are still on campus blows my mind. I will never understand how some teenagers are so clueless but I hope they get it together. I know for a fact that my Instagram and Facebook pages are clean as a whistle and would never hurt my chances of getting into a school.

Cyberbullying

I do not agree with Mark O'Mara at all. It does not make sense for parents of cyber bullies to be punished for the actions of their children on the internet. I understand that parents can be charged if their child were to shoot and kill someone with their handgun but this is different. A phone and computer cannot be compared to a handgun no matter how one distorts the picture. A child taking a gun and physically shooting someone is completely different than a child harassing another child to the point of suicide. Yes, I understand that both incidents are extremely tragic BUT a child cyber bullying another is not the same as that child physically holding the gun (their parent's gun) to another child'd head and therefore the parents cannot be charged. Mark O'Mara's analogy of "If a child kills someone while using their parent's gun, the parent can be held responsible. If a child breaks the law using a computer or cellphone, provided by the parent, how is that 

different?" is invalid. I don't believe this will pass and I really hope it doesn't. When a parent is actually 

behind the screen cyber bullying then they can be charged.