Harmless Hazing

[Pike4Life]

I absolutely HATE that professional sports still promote, glamorize and tolerate hazing.

Every year during the NFL training camp weeks, we get bombarded with "human interest" stories about how the veteran players HAZE the rookies - personal servitude, embarrassing displays, physical abuse - it all comes out as "harmless fun traditions"....BULLSH!T.

Sometime last year, I heard a radio commercial for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. There was a veteran player talking about the youth of the team, and how it was a good thing. Especially since he had a whole team of guys to "pick him up early for practice, carry his luggage on road trips, etc.". It was obviously a testament in favor of hazing!
I called the Hawks organization and submitted a complaint...not that it did much good.

I would say that the Greek Community needs to use its combined pull to register complaints with whatever professional sports team in your area that promotes HAZING of any kind!

It reminds me of a report by Alfred Univ. a few years ago that studied the level of hazing on athletic teams. It found that hazing was very much alive and well in almost all team sports - from the high school level on up to the professionals.
It is a disturbing fact, especially when you consider how many varsity athletes in college are also members of a GLO.

And what's even more ironic, didn't Alfred Univ. recently vote to destroy its Greek system due to "behavioral problems". I'm sure the school will continue to support it's intercollegiate athletics program...despite the high level of binge drinking and hazing that has been scientifically found to exist in these venues by THEIR OWN DAMN STUDY!!!