There are thousands of them
This is it. There are so many of them, 52 man rosters plus practice squad. Hell, the chances are sky high that one of these guys will get in trouble first.
There are thousands of them
Football players are use to doing and getting what they want. A lot of them went to schools that they could do damn near anything they wanted to do. Rape steal beat up.
That doesn't explain high school and grade school athletics though, because when I was in high school, most of the kids on our basketball team could barely fight. They were just tall kids with no hands who talked a lot. I saw smaller kids who were tougher than the hoopers. I myself remember times when I've got into it with hoopers in highschool and they would turn down fights. But there were LEGIT goons on the football team who would knuckle you up if they had to. The football kids talked a lot less, were much more quiet/humble, despite being the most physically imposing kids in school. Football kids usually showed you how tough they were, hoopers usually told you. Different mentalities even as children athletes.
It's not about roids, going back to youth sports growing up I always noticed that football players tended to be much much tougher than hoopers. Basketball attracts a lot of loud mouth wannabe tough guys who can barely fight and as others said hoopers are the most sheltered protected people in the hood. Hoopers especially in the new softer era of pro basketball, tend to be the kids who do bad things to look cool, hang with the gangbangers and thugs but really don't put any work in. You see a football kid hanging with some thugs, he usually is actually active with them. There are some genuine goons in football in all levels so it's not roids. This goes all the way down to peewee.
That doesn't explain high school and grade school athletics though, because when I was in high school, most of the kids on our basketball team could barely fight. They were just tall kids with no hands who talked a lot. I saw smaller kids who were tougher than the hoopers. I myself remember times when I've got into it with hoopers in highschool and they would turn down fights. But there were LEGIT goons on the football team who would knuckle you up if they had to. The football kids talked a lot less, were much more quiet/humble, despite being the most physically imposing kids in school. Football kids usually showed you how tough they were, hoopers usually told you. Different mentalities even as children athletes.