Richie Incognito's NFL career is in jeopardy, thanks to a bullying incident involving Miami Dolphins teammate Jonathan Martin and a new revelation of a sexual harassment allegation by a female volunteer at a Dolphins golf outing.
The New York Post reports that Incognito's current situation was born of a tenuous childhood involving what one acquaintance of the family characterized as "psychotic parents."
According to the Post, Incognito's parents, Richard Sr., and Donna, were often boisterous at their son's games when he was growing up in Bogota, N.J.
"His parents were definitely psychotic," 65-year-old Jim Moore, Bogota's recreation director who coached youth football when Incognito was a boy, told the Post. "You understand why Richie is the way Richie is."
The Post used Moore's comments to describe Donna as an overprotective enabler.
"She'd complain, 'Oh, he punched my kid.' She was always whining to the referees," Moore said.
Another coach, Joe Casper, told the Post that Richard Sr. was "a loudmouth on the sidelines." Others reported that Richie's father was mercilessly demanding of the boy during competitions.
Casper, who coached the younger Incognito as a 10-year-old on the Bogota Bucks of the Bergen County Junior Football League, said Richie often came to the sidelines in tears after getting roughed up on the field.
"He got pushed around frequently on the football field. At times, he'd come back to the sidelines crying," the 58-year-old Casper told the Post. "There would be welts all over him. He was getting beat up."
The Post also reported a disturbing incident that happened just five months ago between Donna and Richard Sr. It reported that Richard Sr. granted a one-year order of protection against his wife in Arizona after a vicious row.
Richard alleged in June that his wife told him "to put a bullet in a gun and put it to my head and pull the trigger," according to court documents.
"After I said 'Never,' Donna Incognito said she would put the bullet in the gun and put it to my head and pull the trigger.
"She said that way she could collect insurance and she said she was the beneficiary. I told her my son Richard Jr. is my beneficiary not her."
When the Post asked for comment, Donna, who lives in Cresskill, N.J., told The Post, "You put out whatever you need to put out, but trust me, I'm coming back at you, buddy."
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