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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 3055876" data-attributes="member: 9374">Meh. I'm underwhelmed by the whole thing. It was typical sports, at the high school, college or professional level. He did nothing that doesn't happen a hundred times a game on every football field in the country. Guys talk trash continually. He did it on camera and quite obviously. Yep, it was dumb, and yes, he got caught, while all the other guys who did it in that game (and all the others) every single play didn't. That's all.Talk **** and live with the consequences. But the consequences are a bunch of mealy-mouthed apologies and a slap on the wrist symbolic punishment.If it were my son, I'd tell him he shouldn't do that, he should be better man than that. Have I done it? Damn right. I just want my son to be a better man than me, which is a low bar, but it's a starting point.That being said, I've taught my son to try to avoid conflict, but if someone puts him in a bad situation or corners him, it's time to break out the 6 years of martial arts and end the conflict quickly and decisively. Mayfield was hot under the collar at the cheap shots, I get that, but it was just a dumb macho d**k-measuring contest, nothing more, nothing less.</blockquote>