The son of former Cowboys TE Jay Novacek alleges a disturbing incident of hazing at the Oklahoma fraternity

Jay Novacek is well known as the tight group of the great Dallas Cowboys teams of the 1990s. His son Blake dreamed of a fame in the same field of sports, but as a broadcaster or presenter of Sportscenter.

These hopes were wiped out by a disturbing incident in Oklahoma University's Beta Theta Pi fraternity that Blake Novacek allegedly damaged her on the way to the semi-blindness and institutionalization of suicidal thoughts.

The incident, which would have occurred in the fall of 2015 and was detailed in a long report from the Dallas Observer, is now the subject of a $ 10 million lawsuit filed by Novacek for charges of assault and assault. negligence. world of university fraternities.

What Blake Novacek claims to have arrived in Oklahoma

Novacek said he chose the University of Oklahoma for his audiovisual journalism program and promised his own radio show and a job at the Oklahoma television channel, SoonerVision. He was an aspiring talent in the world of sports broadcasting, having already presented an hour – long football show to his local ESPN affiliate as a high school student.

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This last part apparently seemed very, very wrong.

Aged 18, Novacek said he and his first-year colleague had been promptly pushed into degrading activities and forced to learn trivial facts about each member of the fraternity. While breaking the promise that Novacek had received, it was not the same as what would happen after Oklahoma's loss to Texas.

From Dallas Observer:

At a certain point the next week, Novacek said he had been summoned to the Beta via the GroupMe message, but this appearance was not like the others. Most, he said, took place around 9 pm and this one, the best he could remember, was past midnight. This time he was blindfolded and a pillowcase was placed on his head.

Novacek says that he was brought up the stairs, and then down a hallway, where he heard moans and screams. Alarmed, he took off his pillow case and peeked under his blindfold to see a pledge on the floor with a panic attack.

Finally, Novacek claimed that he was alone in a room with Brother Shane Muselmann, who he felt resented.

According to Novacek, Muselmann ordered him to put back his headband and pillowcase. It was at this point that Muselmann swung the bat and hit Novacek in the belly, just beneath his ribs. The blow made him go back into the wall first, then lost balance and fell. As he descends, Novacek believes that the back of his head has hit a marble window sill. (Muselmann denies this.)

"At first I was not unconscious, but I had nothing left," Novacek says. "I do not know how much time I spent there. Could have been a minute, 10 minutes or hours. "

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"Hey, what happened to you last night?" Said Martindale, immediately providing Novacek with his desired response before the engagement can fully understand the issue. "If you talk about that, we'll kick you off campus. You will be done. We are going to ruin you and your family.

What happened to Novacek after the incident?

Three years after the incident, Novacek would still feel the effects of the brain damage that he suffered that night. And they almost ruined his life.

According to the article, Novacek's speech therapist believes that his vocabulary and his quick recall time have decreased by 84%, his ophthalmologist predicts that a blurred vision of his left eye is a forerunner of the blindness in his neurologist. the brain trauma left him "the brain of a 65-year-old man".

"Imagine having a tight elastic band around your head," he says of his incessant headache. "Now add 40 more around this one. Welcome to my world."

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