A Former NFL Front Office Executive’s Take on the Wells Report

February 15, 2014   ·   Greg Gabriel   ·   Jump to comments

When the Wells Report came out on Friday, I was reluctant to read it. I tweeted that I don't need to read the report because I played football for over 20 years and have been in NFL locker rooms for another 30 years. I had first-hand knowledge of what goes on.
I knew how there was always a strong personality who controlled the room and was the "Big Dog" among his teammates. I knew how players "harassed" each other, sometimes in vulgar ways. 
But in all honesty, everything was in relatively good nature. Rookies were rookies, and until they earned the respect of veterans, they weren't accepted as part of the team. Yes, they were teased and had to do things like carry the vets' pads from the practice field or sing their schools' fight songs in the cafeteria.
Everything I was a part of as a player (not in the NFL) or witnessed was more fun than anything else and players took it that way. I would be naive to say there weren't times when players got upset and "f...

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