One of the first scenes in the 2004 movie Friday Night Lights is a high school football player taking a swing at his teammate. In that one punch lies one of the messiest issues in sports: inter-team violence. The issue is as big or small as you want to make it, however.
Violence among teammates on a small level is not an uncommon occurrence. Scuffles and fights at practice and in the locker room occur all the time, and are nothing to worry about, espn.com writer Wayne Drehs says.
