(02-13-2025, 12:09 AM)newguy Wrote:(02-12-2025, 05:31 PM)qwerty49 Wrote: I kinda think there's a special place in hell for people like Richie Incognito.
i couldn't agree more.
I appreciate the thread on mental health issues as it affects football players. Incognito is one of the all-time bad actors. Great football player. First Nebraska frosh OL to start the season opener. But horrendous behavioral issues in college:
- Hit walk-on OL Jack Limbaugh from behind.
- Spit on Troy State player
- Picked a fight in blowout loss to Penn State.
- Responsible for Husker loss to Colorado with late personal foul.
- Suspended indefinitely by HC Solich for a practice fight
- Solich and staff mandated anger management treatment at the Menninger clinic.
- Spit on two Michigan State players at Alamo bowl.
- Fight at a 2004 party, three counts of assault, guilty on one.
- Suspended indefinitely for repeated team rules violations
- Locker room fight, final straw for coach Callahan
- Transferred to Oregon, dismissed from team one week later, HC Belotti said he failed to meet conditions including anger management course and code of conduct.
And then in the NFL...
- ESPN noted that he would slip to the later rounds because of his emotional challenges.
- KC Chiefs GM Scott Pioli said publicly he wouldn't even consider Incognito, and Pioli was known for taking players with checkered pasts.
- Former Stanford and Colts coach Dungy said Incognito was on "DNDC" (DO Not Draft because of Character) list.
- Repeated partying while rehabilitating chronic knee injury.
- Fined 3x for berating official, chop block, "major" face mask penalty and separate personal foul.
- Two 15-yard personal fouls for headbutting Titans players. $50k NFL fine, letter from NFL warning against issues.
- Former Rams GM gave Incognito numerous chances to clean up his act.
- NFL leading 38 penalties and seven personal fouls in four years, most of any player from 2006 to 2009
- Suspended by Dolphins for harassment of Jonathan Martin and sat out next season. Dolphins took unusual step of asking NFL to conduct their own investigation.
- Jaguars defensive end Yannick Ngakoue accused Incognito of using racial slurs.
- Signed with Raiders, NFL suspended him for two games for violating league personal conduct penalties.
- ESPN reported on harassment of Martin. ESPN stated that Martin wasn't the only victim
- Fox Sports 1 reported that Incognito sent Martin threatening messages
- CBS Sports reported that Incognito had to be reprimanded in past for actions towards team employees, including an assistant trainer.
- In general, Incognito garnered attention for dirty play including eye gouging, punching players, illegal tackles.
- In 2009, NFL players voted Incognito the dirtiest player in the league.
- In 2018, Incognito was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold stemming from a Life Time Fitness health club incident, reportedly in an altered, paranoid state.
- Arrested in 2018 after a funeral home incident in which he threatened to shoot employees. Police seized two handguns, a suppressor and three rifles from Incognito's truck. He was charged with disorderly conduct and making threats.
I played football in high school with a guy like that, a genuinely bad guy. Shot to death when he was 21. None of our teammates were surprised.
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