Posted on 11/19/2014 9:17:11 AM PST by massmike
Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player, announced his retirement on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old Collins played 22 games with the Brooklyn Nets last season and was not on the roster this season.
He announced his retirement in a first-person story for Sports Illustrated, saying it has “been 18 exhilarating months” since he came out as the first openly gay man in one of the four major North American professional leagues.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.cbslocal.com ...
What a hero. 99% of Americans won’t know his name in 3 months.
So they guy I never heard of until he was ‘out’ rode the wave for almost two years and now retires. Meanwhile the draftee in the NFL who outed himself and got six months of adoring publicity cannot even find a practice squad job.
But both got significant attention from the President.
Meanwhile no one went to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral.
Obama will put him in the Hall of Fame by Executive Order.
In other news...Obama will announce amnesty for over 10 million illegals Friday.
Did he sprain his groin muscle?
Guess Michael Sam’s “Retirement” isn’t too far away.
Yes, but it wasn't his.
Anal warts were not comfortable for him on the court
One last, desperate attempt to extend his 15 minutes of fame. Pathetic.....
Well that's what happens in todays special society, if you aint queer you aint dear! As for I, the old school society of Reagan and Thatcher is just fine, and I have no intention of joining Lord Foul and his peers.
He really hated to leave his teammates behind. Turns out his only talent was taking it “to the hole”. No defense at all.
Ohhhh, ohhhhhh, ohhhhh, Michael Sam and Jason Collins can get married...yeah, in Las Vegas...and then they can adopt a baby and then Hallmark or Lifetime will make a movie about it and then ESPN can do a 30 for 30, well, maybe they won’t be alive in 30 years...never mind.
He got his big gay payday, so now he can retire and get his perv on full-time.
League Officieals announced they will retire his Jock Strap.
Why is this not on CNN and ESPN 24/7 like it was when he announed that he was a homosexual and hyped as the greatest thing since the beginning of time?
Jason Who? Oh, yeah, the third-rate pro basketball player who tried to inoculate himself from being cut by coming out of the closet.
why is this even news worthy?
See ya.
Happens to guys across the professional sports spectrum every year. They wash out. There's always hairdresser school, Jason.
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