you know, i think the guys ridiculing those making excuses are just as bad the ones who can't overcome their sad idolatry of the man.
we're fucked up creatures, warped by our divorce from the instinctual slavery that lesser animals are bound by.
in the madness of our actions, sanity is a matter of perception.
that he was an accomplished athelete didn't make him exempt from the base emotions that push even the strongest among us to the realm of what most would consider irrational.
however, assuming what he stands charged with is true, that should not be a mark against his humanity.
if anything, it's a sign of it.