I somewhat agree. Most of the time, cordial should be the approach.
However, sometimes, a motherfucker needs a beating and you need to fight your way through the fodder to get to him. I never felt that way in football, but a GBall guy, like 6’6”, 230 on their court, straight up punched me in the face during a free throw shot. I went after him in the handshake line and while he laughed as people were pulling me back, he also seemed fine that people were physically restraining me:
Vernon Crawford at Texas City did the same in hoops after two years in football telling me he was going to fuck my mother while I caught passes on his ass.
And then I tried to pull a pitcher out of his girlfriend’s house after he was protected by his Dobie teammates to get him to the parking lot after he threw at me on 4 straight pitches. He later played for years in MLB too, so his arm was a lethal weapon. I saw him at a wedding that I was paying for a few years ago and he tried to apologize to me. What a complete pussy. It’s been 30 years, pussy. Enjoy your pension.
So now that I think about it, I don’t know how much I disagree. That said, I don’t if I am a standard example of the norm.