Caitlin Clark has brought exceptional consideration to women’s ball. And bounty of women’s ball players appear to detest her for it.
The circumstance came to a head on Saturday, when Clark took an away-from-the-ball cheap shot, conceivably gone before by this message from her attacker:
“You’re a bitch.”
It’s an astounding improvement, but at a few level it’s not astounding. Human nature incorporates bounty of clashing and at times unhelpful characteristics. There’s a constrain to the sum of saint adore and/or untimely laud and/or seen favoritism that individuals can take some time recently they begin to induce chafed. The address is whether that bothering causes us to act out.
Most of the time, no. Some of the time, yes. Recently for Caitlin Clark, yes.
It’s a unusual circumstance, to say the slightest. We’ve attempted to think almost whether that same energetic has happened within the NFL. The closest comparison is Reggie Bush, who entered the NFL in 2006 with more buildup (and supports) than any rookie in a long time. And whereas there didn’t appear to be far reaching hatred of Bush, Rex Ryan protections appeared to reliably target him.
After confronting Bush in 2006, then-Ravens linebacker Bart Scott (who played in Ryan’s defense at the time) said Bush was “the media dear, a/k/a the brilliant boy of the NFL.” In 2012, when Bush was playing for the Dolphins, there was some open ugliness between Bush and Ryan’s Planes. (Bush afterward played for Ryan in Buffalo, inevitably saying of the group beneath Rex, “We didn’t have teach. . . . The need of teach we had from a group point of view. Our coaching staff didn’t do a awesome work of making beyond any doubt folks were held accountable.”)
