Posted on 02/26/2013 8:21:53 AM PST by STD
Edited on 02/26/2013 8:42:03 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
After the fake girlfriend hoax exploded in January, Katie Couric asked Te’o if he was gay and the former Notre Dame linebacker nervously responded: ”No, far from it, far from it.”
But according to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, NFL teams are still wondering if Te’o is indeed gay and they want to know the answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
Florio said he didn’t think teams actually asked Te’o about his sexuality when they met with him over the weekend.
“It’s been described to me as the proverbial elephant in the room and I don’t think anyone knows how to solve this dilemma yet,” he said. “It’s just that they want to know what they’re getting. They want to know what issues they may be dealing with down the road. We just assumed that at some point there would be an openly gay player in an NFL locker room and the team would have to work with the realities and make sure that everything’s fine. Now you have a situation where you have a guy who was in a relationship with a fake girl who ended up being a real man, and the man has said to Dr. Phil that he was romantically in love with Manti Te’o, it just raises a lot of questions that the NFL at some point is going to have to deal with.”
Obviously, if teams are wondering about his sexuality, it’s an indication that it will affect Te’o draft stock. Homophobia has been, and continues to be, a big issue in the NFL.
“I’m not saying anyone would take Manti Te’o off the board if they suspected he’s gay or know he’s gay,” Florio told Dan Patrick. “That’s just the thing that’s out there that they want to know the answer to.”
so what difference does it make???
rumor has it the POTUS is Gay also..
only in America is this important!!!
There’s some hanky-panky going on with his cousin, I bet.
Wow, you mean teams may be apprehensive about entering into a multimillion dollar multi-year contract with an emotionally unstable drama queen? Whodathunkit?
Who cares. What does that have to do with football?
His biggest problems are his miserable showing against Alabama and he is not doing well at the combine (Almost slowest Linebacker there).
I fail to see how anyone could give the slightest crap about this.
He’s uhhh fag.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that...
Exactly...what difference does it make?
We can have four Americans killed and don’t give a damn...
We can have a QB who hangs and electrocutes dogs, goes to jail and no one gives a damn...
We can have wife-beaters, thugs, tax cheats, users of under-age prostitutes, abortionists who kill and are Scott-free to kill again....
No one gives a damn!
Teams give a crap, especially owners, because team chemistry matters - and when you hand a guy $40MM to play the most profitable sport in the world - you want to make sure its going to work in the locker room.
The irony is that team cohesion doesn’t matter as much on the battlefield any more. After all, it’s only national security that’s at stake, not the Super Bowl.
It’s important to keep your priorities straight, you see.
The elephant in the room is that gay doesn’t work on any level, and pushing it is simply a measurement of how ready we are for the full monty - complete totalitarianism recapitulated as a faux free market economy.
Serf’s only had to part with 25%. I aspire to serfdom.
Is that even legal to ask by a potential employer?
Im sure they can word it differntly . .
I know somebody who got caught up with an internet girlfriend scam.
Teo isn’t gay...in fact he desperately seeks female attention.
Next step: the NFL will be pressured not to discriminate against gays. After that, the NFL will required to permit women to participate in football combat.
the NEW NFL:
Screw over Rush, forbid hard hits, make REALLY sure each team has enough gay people.
Lots of eye-rolling, scoffing and bickering in the huddles, as$-slaps with a thoughtful caress at the end, mincing in the end-zone.
PLENTY of shoe-shopping and handbag comparisons with the CheerFRIENDS.
At least he’s not a Quarterback. All the Centers in the league would be sweating bullets!
If he get's knocked out and needs mouth to mouth, can they call you or Haircutter?
Methinks thou dost protest too much. Homosexuality is an extreme narcissistic personality disorder. Not a quality you look for in the POTUS.
He’s still going to be one of the first two or three picks in the first round.
He’s still going to be one of the first two or three picks in the first round.
just quoting old Hillary a bit...
have you ever noticed not all posts refer to the subject in the article...
and at my age mouth to mouth is out of the question!!! but really I care less what he is or isn’t...just don’t shove his lifestyle down other people throats....
I appreciate the explanation, and basically surmised it soon after I posted. I’m one of those extremely weird people for whom football does utterly nothing.
Naturally, the politically correct Florio had to twice qualify his reporting with, “It shouldn’t be that way.”
Well, yeah, it SHOULD be that way. A penis is not supposed to have sex with a pile of stinking feces. Homosexuality gives normal people the creeps whether they admit it or not. It will be interesting to see which NFL team takes the plunge (no pun). It might say a lot about ownership. Personally, I think this fellow Te’O is toast. That “virtual girlfriend” prank and his stupidity in (apparently) falling for it cost him $millions$.
Does Michelle Obama wear a boob belt?
Was Robert Byrd in the Klan?
Did Michael Jackson like little kids?
Does Sheila Jackson Lee have the IQ of a dead bush?
Does Debbie Wasserman-Shultz have big thighs?
Does the Kennedy compound have a full bar?
Does Bill Clinton cheat at golf?
Is Baraq Obama a narcissist?
Is Notre Dame football overrated?
lol
Homosexual/President of The United States of America
Never in my life time did I expect to see that...times are chaining, for sure.
That is something that could happen anytime you try to save someones life. If someone needs help, I don’t look for the ‘gay id’, I’d just help them.
We already had one; James Buchanan.
do you think the current President ever will?
Considering the era, he was pretty out. He was a known ‘dandy’ based on what the papers of the time wrote about him and lived in the white house with his ‘friend’. Andrew Jackson had some funny things to say about Buchanan and his ‘friend’, called him Aunt Fancy.
Get Katie Couric to ask Obama if he is gay.
LMAO
A team should be concerned about a players homosexuality. The gay lifestyle is a risky lifestyle that can lead to STDs and premature death. As for Teo, I really do believe he’s gay, come on people he want to Notre Dame and was a football player. ND is no SEC school, but still do you know how many beautiful women go there? He could have had his pick of any coed but he’s going to have a long distance realtionahip with someone in Hawaii?!
Uh...no, not even remotely close. He isn't going to be chosen in the first round at all.
“Homophobia has been, and continues to be, a big issue in the NFL.”
I still contend that heterosexual men are not ‘homophobic’. It is just complete disgust with what homosexuals do to each other.
“He’s still going to be one of the first two or three picks in the first round.”
I agree; in the LFL Lingerie Football League
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