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TexasTowelie

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Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:00 PM Sep 2018

Former Dallas Cowboys' Star Jay Novacek's Son Blake Struggles After Alleged Hazing at OU

In Animal House, John Belushi’s “Bluto” and his fraternity brothers shoot a horse, throw a toga party, commence a food fight, molest an unconscious girl and get placed on double secret probation.

In Old School, Will Ferrell’s “Frank the Tank” and his frat boys go streaking, tie cinder blocks to their penises and watch a pledge die while lube wrestling topless coeds.

If only today’s fraternities were so tame.

In the real world, 18-year-old Beta Theta Pi pledge Blake Novacek says he was blindfolded, sucker punched with a baseball bat and suffered irreparable brain damage during hazing. The incident prompted a lawsuit, and the fraternity and the members named in the suit deny all of Novacek’s claims. Novacek’s lawyer says he has evidence of a cover-up by the fraternity.

Novacek claims the hazing left him suffering depression, suicidal thoughts, two admissions into mental hospitals and physical maladies that transformed his bright broadcasting career into a diminished life.

Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/ex-cowboy-jay-novaceks-son-struggles-after-an-alleged-hazing-at-ou-11156183

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Former Dallas Cowboys' Star Jay Novacek's Son Blake Struggles After Alleged Hazing at OU (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
Traumatic Brain Injury is Serious dlk Sep 2018 #1
That poor fella. I would have taken a year off to figure things out secondwind Sep 2018 #2
Sad... czarjak Sep 2018 #3

secondwind

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2. That poor fella. I would have taken a year off to figure things out
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:48 PM
Sep 2018

and to get better. Life is a journey, not a rush to the finish line.

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