The guys on the Deerfield High School’s swim team have been suspended from the squad amid hazing allegations. The swimmers and their parents are claiming that the incident is just part of a “team tradition” while the administration says it was hazing, pure and simple. They boys say it’s little more than a game of late nigh “tag” with younger swimmer throwing toilet paper at one house, and then being “kidnapped: by older swimmers and driven to a second house and released.

Yes, that’s what they say they do to initiation new swimmers. Hilarious, isn’t it?

We’re still waiting for details to make our Hazing-No Hazing call, but apparently the folks at MSNBC don’t think very highly of swimming as a sport . . . as evidenced by the photo (see screen capture below) with the story: unless we’re mistaken, those look like the legs of young women and we’re pretty sure that’s synchronized swimming, not the 200 meter medley relay. We’ve asked MSNBC for an explanation, but so far have not received one.

Any other explanations?