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Why Tony Dungy wouldn't have drafted Michael Sam
SI ^ | July 21, 2014 | Doug Farrar

Posted on 07/21/2014 2:27:34 PM PDT by C19fan

"I wouldn’t have taken him. Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it.

“It’s not going to be totally smooth … things will happen.’’

That's what former NFL defensive back and head coach Tony Dungy told Ira Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune when asked about the prospects for rookie defensive end Michael Sam. Of course, Sam is the league's first openly gay player, and though many league executives and players may feel exactly that way, Dungy may feel the courage to speak to his own views more convincingly. He's a deeply religious man with a desire to evangelize and help others in his own way -- he's written several best-selling books about those beliefs, and he speaks publicly quite often, aside and apart from his current position as an NFL analyst for NBC Sports.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: dungy; gay; homosexualagenda; nfl; sam
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To: C19fan

Still think the Rams drafted Sam I Ram A Guy Between The Hams in a backroom deal to ease their plans for a future move.

My question on this now is once he does take the field, what happens to the other players whos job it will be to stop him. If the assignment is to block him and that involves knocking him into next week, will opposing players hesitate so they’re not being thought of as singling him out? Imagine if a player knocks Sam out of one or several games how much grief that guy is going to take for just playing football the way he’s supposed to. He’ll be branded a homophobe in the sports media and could lose his career by treating Sam as he would any other player.


21 posted on 07/21/2014 3:02:16 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: nascarnation
He’s from Texas, right?

Only two things come from Texas......

22 posted on 07/21/2014 3:03:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan
Unfortunately his statement against Saint Sam might be the opening needed to get him off the airwaves.

Truth- it's the new hate speech.

23 posted on 07/21/2014 3:04:22 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Truth- it’s the new hate speech.

I got that from a FR post, and would credit the author if I could remember who it was...


24 posted on 07/21/2014 3:05:45 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: cdga5for4

Pro football is a blood sport. Literally.

AIDS is spread thru contact with tainted blood.

It’s only a matter of time until a normal player contracts AIDS thru the tainted, infected blood of a homosexual.

Imagine the wrongful death lawsuits that will follow - hundreds of millions that could threaten the existence of the NFL

PS: I posted this on PFT and they immediately removed it despite it was a factual based post.


25 posted on 07/21/2014 3:10:35 PM PDT by newfreep (at)
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To: cdga5for4

“The gay mafia is out in full force against Dungy.”

Then they are proving his point.


26 posted on 07/21/2014 3:11:01 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: lacrew

They have absolutely proved his point.


27 posted on 07/21/2014 3:12:08 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: C19fan

Agreed. After all of the dust up on this they’ll have to play him. I don’t see it ending well for most parties involved in this.


28 posted on 07/21/2014 3:12:50 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: cdga5for4

BTW, “Gay Mafia” takes on a literal meaning with Sams:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/michael-sam-boyfriend-mobster-grandpa-father-article-1.1789491


29 posted on 07/21/2014 3:14:54 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: C19fan

Assuming Michael Sam makes the team, the first time he sustains an especially hard hit, there will immediately be speculation that he was “targeted.”


30 posted on 07/21/2014 3:15:58 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: C19fan
However, there are times when Dungy's beliefs -- especially as a public figure -- have put him in hot water with some groups. In 2007, he accepted a "Friend of Family" award from the Indiana Family Institute, a conservative organization, while he was the head coach of the Colts.

What???? How dare he have deeply held beliefs! How dare he accept such an award!

31 posted on 07/21/2014 3:23:04 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

Just like a bank lending someone who can’t pay it back is ‘predatory lending’ and not lending to someone who can’t pay it back is ‘redlining’.


32 posted on 07/21/2014 3:23:41 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: C19fan

Dungy is a white man inside a black man’s skin.

Which would make him a racist.

Dungy is also a religious person, so, that makes him a homophobe.

Heck, he has to be an Uncle Tom, with all of his positions on the social issues.


33 posted on 07/21/2014 3:24:24 PM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: C19fan

Dungy just ended his tenure on Sunday Night Football.


34 posted on 07/21/2014 3:33:03 PM PDT by montag813
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To: C19fan

The thing is, you can discount religious motives from Dungy for the moment. Hire any openly gay person and you are setting yourself up for lots of high drama. It’s already there in Sam’s case and pushed by Sam. They aren’t called queens for nothing.


35 posted on 07/21/2014 4:01:30 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: C19fan
The firestorm over this innocuous comment, which was, basically, that there are going to be many firestorms over innocuous comments regarding Michael Sam, kind of proves Tony Dungy’s point.

Why do we twist ourselves in knots to accommodate 2% of the population?

36 posted on 07/21/2014 4:07:03 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: C19fan

After the miserable scores he put in at the combine I wouldn’t have drafted Sam either.


37 posted on 07/21/2014 4:10:28 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: dfwgator
Only two things come from Texas......

And I don't see any horns on him.

38 posted on 07/21/2014 4:12:38 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: C19fan

God bless Tony Dungy. But he will get fired for not towing the official “I love homosexuals” line. One thing we know for certain he’ll not get a job at homosexual-loving, leftwing ESPN. Every announcer on that station would be right at home working for MSNBC.


39 posted on 07/21/2014 6:10:50 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: C19fan

Hasn’t Michael Sam already violated some league rules? Like selling his own merchandise and stuff?


40 posted on 07/21/2014 6:12:46 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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