High School Football Player Accused Of Rape Told Friend That Coach 'Took Care Of It' http://www.businessinsider.com/steubenville-defendants-texts-2013-3/comments en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:40:38 -0500 Erin Fuchs http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5143fcb969bedd0a03000022 jamesxxxxxxx Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:01:45 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5143fcb969bedd0a03000022 And by the way - you are Canadian (TO=Toronto?). Well as a fellow Canadian I can forgive you for perhaps a bit of smug derision towards the Americans. See - I too was raised in Canada to look down my nose at those crude Americans with their sports, and vast enthusiasm, fortitude, and competitiveness ... Thankfully, after living some time in Texas, wherein I was greeted positively with open arms, I got to see how fun, fulfilling, enjoyable, character building and positive the whole 'football' thing can be. Sure, it's not for everyone, and it can be kind of crude ... but it makes Canadians look like a bunch of pathetic weeners, like the losers who didn't get invited to the party make excuses for why 'drinking is not good for you' ... These activities are the stuff of which life is made ... it's the most authentic form of life expression ... that which we would do were we not confined to labor ... like the kids in the frozen-over back alleys of Montreal with skates, sticks and a puck .... http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5143fa61ecad043006000003 jamesxxxxxxx Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:51:45 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5143fa61ecad043006000003 Actually - participating in local activities including local sports is probably one of the *best* community building exercises imaginable. Are you sorry that people living all over America cannot have access to all the latest faux-art museums and scammy restaurants to deliver you $300 steaks. Would you prefer they all hung out on Facebook, or at shopping malls? Sadly - I you have it 100% upside down. Culturally legitimate pastimes, at the local level, wherein people can have something to look forward to, to participate in, that helps build character, and gives the community a sense of pride and identity outside of what some city f**k decides for them is appropriate, or endeavors to commercialize and sell to them. These are the places where life happens, where stories come to life, where people derive their real sense of being. I would gladly go to a popular local football schools game, and frankly, you couldn't pay me to visit Disney. The sad thing about this story is a man's fall from grace, and how such an important activity an important cultural epithet has been sullied by such a douche-bag. The crime rate is down a little bit from the 1990's, but still about 6x higher than in the 1950's. Seems all those losers in the 1950's, playing sports, going to dances with actual live musicians - without TV, internet or shopping malls and 24/7 porno were somehow able to keep it together and flourish ... somehow ... http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51439ecb69bedd7829000005 Steve Stevenson Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:20:59 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51439ecb69bedd7829000005 Football players act like jackasses? They party and rape a girl? Their coach lies and tries to cover it up? What a shock. Next you'll tell me they get special treatment in school with their grades. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514382a36bb3f76b17000006 Jack Burton Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:20:51 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514382a36bb3f76b17000006 Anyone from a small or even midsize town is not surprised by players feeling immune from their acts. And no surprise either that they would turn to coach to bail them out. If these two carried on the acts that are claimed, then they are too full of themselves, most likely because they have been let off in the past from other things. These two are the kind that do dirty tricks on other kids in the locker rooms after gym class. I know, I saw it when I was a kid. What happens is these players get praised and honored by everyone, especially the school staff, and the kids are to fearful to do anything but go along and praise the same players. The girl was drunk, MAN, how many times have I seen that when I was in High School. What I saw is that other girls moved in fast to protect the girl and get her out of harms way. In this case maybe there were not friends around to rescue her and get her safe from guys like these two. If they are guilty of this, then they are criminals. What has football got to do with anything? Sounds like rape to me, you don't move in to have sex on a girl who is too drunk to know what is happening. Not unless you are sick, or unless you think you are god. In this case, perhaps both thought pertain. No excuses for this. If it was my daughter, and you can't watch them 24/7, I would be out to kill, and I mean it! http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514376f66bb3f7cf7b000025 John Galt in TO Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:31:02 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514376f66bb3f7cf7b000025 Any town that really has nothing else going for it other than its local high school football team sounds pretty pathetic to me. What a truly sad existence. As for the coach, there's something incredibly disturbing here. It's like a real life Bud Kilmer. American society is so broken in general. I look forward to becoming a father one day, but at the same time find it very intimidating given the kind of world we are now bringing children into.