Dwain Walden is editor and publisher of The Moultrie Observer.

I was asked at the breakfast club what I thought about this Miami Dolphins issue between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin. My answer was simple. “I don’t care.”

For several days now, sports commentators and even non-sports commentators have been analyzing this matter to the point that I was looking for a channel that wasn’t talking about it.

For those who don’t know. These two players supposedly are on the same team. Incognito has been suspended indefinitely because he allegedly bullied his teammate Jonathan Martin.

Again, I don’t give one tiny rat’s patoot!  But I do find the matter a little bit curious. Martin is a professional football player who weighs over 300 pounds and is in top physical shape. And he complains that someone bullied him? I don’t believe I would have told that.

That’s kind of like running off the field and saying, “Hey coach, he poked fun at my girlfriend!”

Now don’t get me wrong here. I don’t like bullying. I never have. But for the most part I’ve viewed bullying as some big kid who picks on a little kid. And I know it’s not a clinical approach, but for the most part I would just like to see someone knock the snot out of bully.

But it just never occurred to me that a professional football player could be bullied or that he would admit to it. That would be like a Navy Seal team member staying home from work because he had a blister on his big toe.

Now I think it’s been established that Incognito has a rap sheet for obtuse behavior. But again, I don’t care. It has mostly been in the context of him being a professional football player. These guys make millions of dollars and they may reap what they sow in that venue. They can deal with it among themselves. I don’t see it as a societal issue.

Meanwhile, I’m am a big football fan. I grew up 30 miles from the Florida State University campus, and I’ve been a fan for many years. I remember when you could drive down to Tallahassee on Saturday and get good tickets at the gate. That’s how bad they were. And now, there’s a good chance they may play for a national championship again.

And of course I’m an Atlanta Falcons fan and a University of Georgia fan. By the way, my old alma mater, Georgia State University, has a football team now. Even though Georgia State is a very large university, the football program is in its infancy, and I may never see it get out of diapers. Heck I didn’t even know Georgia State had a basketball team until I was a senior. I just happened to notice a panther on my class ring and inquired about it. Initially I thought it was just a stray cat from Underground Atlanta.

What did interest me is how did someone end up with the last name “Incognito?” It basically means to conceal one’s self  or to disguise one’s self.

If you’re on the playing field in front of millions of viewers with this name printed on your  jersey …. well isn’t that sort of oxymoronic?

I think of incognito as wearing dark glasses, a hat tilted slightly to one side and a very wrinkled trench coat. In other words, you look like a half-chewed cigar.

Family names often were derived from professions or circumstances. For instance, if you’re last name is Plumber then there’s a chance that somewhere in the past you had an uncle who mooned everyone in the kitchen while he fixed a leaky faucet. In the case of Incognito, maybe some of your family dressed up like gypsies and slipped out of town for some reason.

So I watched two commentators get so heavy into the debate on this matter, they looked like they were about to pop a gasket. Apparently they didn’t know the thermostat on my truck was stuck and it was running hot.

(Email: dwain.walden@gaflnews.com)