re: Richie Incognito/Jonathan Martin texts

Reading these texts last night was wild. Even with the media reporting all of the information surrounding the situation out of context to paint a negative picture of Incognito, I never felt like even what they said he did was "wrong" enough to make it a big media story. Hell, these texts confirm that there was no story. Incognito did nothing wrong, seemed to genuinely care about Martin's well-being (tried to get him to hang out, offered advice from similar experience, informed of him of workout times, informed of workout plans, etc.). It looked like he was just trying to peer pressure him to include him. I'd go out on a limb and say Incognito was one of the few actual friends Martin had on the team.

Granted, Incognito is a huge bro and I couldn't blame Martin for not wanting to hang out with him...but Incognito never gave him any harder of a time than any of my friends from undergrad did about going out, girls, booze, etc.

Throughout the texts, Martin comes off as timid, obviously young, and I actually thought possibly homosexual.

Unreal how Incognito got worked by the media. The image those clowns portrayed was one of a minority citizen in the country forced to deal with an overt racist/bully to maintain his job, which eventually led to mental hospitalization. Media made you think that Incognito was sending like 10-15 texts at a time that were verbally (textually?) abusive in a racial or bullying manner while Martin never responded.

None of that was true.