Anybody out there from New Jersey?

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http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2 ... st_51.html

Sayreville High School, rocked by hazing allegations, cancels football season

... there were incidents of harassment, intimidation and bullying that took place on a pervasive level, on a wide-scale level..." -- Sayreville superintendent Richard Labbe

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2 ... usive.html

Sayreville football parent reveals sexual nature of alleged locker room hazing ritual (Exclusive)

It came without warning.

It would start with a howling noise from a senior football player at Sayreville War Memorial High School, and then the locker room lights were abruptly shut off.

In the darkness, a freshman football player would be pinned to the locker room floor, his arms and feet held down by multiple upperclassmen. Then, the victim would be lifted to his feet while a finger was forced into his rectum. Sometimes, the same finger was then shoved into the freshman player’s mouth.

I'm just curious if anyone from NJ can weigh in. A great majority of the article comments seem to focus that the football season was cancelled (THE KIDS, THE KIDS), rather than what the freshmen had to endure. Totally bizarre!

My own experience when I played HS football: The worst thing that happened in the locker room was towel fights, or getting popped on the ass with a wet towel. In the whole time in HS, it never escalated and was all in fun (really!). Truthfully, practice was a hell of lot worse. Dragging a cement filled tractor tire up and down the field during a South Texas summer was brutal, but nobody was trying to stick a finger in my ass. Oh yeah, the seniors treated us like little brothers. On the practice field, in the cafeteria, everywhere. I was no where near a "star athlete", which means they treated all the frosh like that. Maybe that just means I went to a wussy high school, IDK.

Other points on this NJ high school: That coach has been there almost 20 years, and has won State Champs 3 of the last 4 years, and holds a record for 17 or 18 straight years in the playoffs. I don't know how it is where you live, but in Texas, he would be a GOD. Doesn't excuse what happened. If even one case is proven, heads better roll.

Oh yeah, one of his assistant coaches just resigned after being caught with steroids.