Violent Athletes

[cheerfulgreek]

I know the Chris Benoit thread is very old, though I didn't comment on the thread, I did read some of the comments. I often wondered what caused him to go nuts. I wonder what makes a lot of the athletes violent. I'm not saying all of them, but they come off that way to me. I heard jokes about teams that lost the super bowl a couple of weeks ago. I would hear jokes like "I feel sorry for their wives tonight".

I think it's the testosterone. Doctors found that Chris Benoit's body showed injections of testosterone. I don't think hormones necessarily make athletes violent, but I do believe they cause them to seek social dominance. When I was in undergrad, I thought the football players were total assholes, and at the time I thought it was just the way they were. Now, I know what it was. I hope I'm not stepping on any toes, but I think athletes, mainly football players and wrestlers are extremely violent. I know not all of them are that way, but I think most of them are.