A team asked Derrius Guice if he likes men [NFL Draft]

Pro Football Talk ^ | March 7, 2018 | Mike Florio

[C19fan]

The calendar says 2018. Some NFL locker rooms remain trapped in 1960.

Running back Derrius Guice said in a Wednesday night appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio that a team asked him at the Scouting Combine if he likes men. (PFT separately has confirmed via a source with knowledge of the situation that the question was asked.)

[C19fan]

Guice from LSU was also told during an interview his mom is a prostitute. Such questions have to be grounds for a lawsuit.

[Cowboy Bob]

Is she a prostitute?

[dsc]

Why wouldn’t they ask that? Mental illness in the locker room is not a good thing.

[Blurb2350]

The article explains that these provocative questions are posed in order to gauge the athletes’ temperament — can they conteol themselves when provoked or insulted. And the athletes are warned beforehand to expect to be shocked or insulted, and to keep their cool. It’s all part of the game.

[wbill]

In some of the locker room hazing that I’ve seen, “Do you like men?” and “Your Mom’s a Prostitute” wouldn’t even count towards the warm-up act.

[lee martell]

That’s terrible that the team would ask such a personal question in this day and age. Absolutely outrageous.
Oh, and what was his answer?

[dfwgator]

The article explains that these provocative questions are posed in order to gauge the athletes’ temperament — can they conteol themselves when provoked or insulted.

"Hanrahan! Your wife's a dyke!"

[BlueLancer]

"Hanrahan! Your wife's a dyke!"

Yeah, ain't it great, coach?! You should see some of the hot bisexual women that she brings home!

[dsc]

My Lord, did you see the comments on the original?

If that were one’s only source of data, one would get the impression that Americans think sodomy is a good thing by a ratio of three or four to one.

[Sans-Culotte]

[Bob]

A lawsuit?? For what?? Being offended isn’t grounds for legal action. At least, not yet.

[Puppage]

Maybe she’s just a very affectionate person?/s

[dfwgator]

“Hanrahan!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tvfdSjRE4

[C19fan]

There are laws and regulations regarding job interviews which this is.

[Calvin Locke]

"Derrius, do you like movies about gladiators?" was how I thought the question, if at all, should be asked.

Unless Mr. Guice swings that way, and somebody was looking for a potential date...

[ameribbean expat]

Only way to deal with this is to give it right back to them. If they ask if you like men, simply respond to the interviewer “Ask your wife if I’m hetero....btw, she was really great last night. Where’d she learn to do that with her tongue?”.

[CygnusXI]

Why would they do this?!?!?!

[karnage]

What a great movie.

[OLDCU]

How about “does your mom wear army boots”?

[OrangeHoof]

...and what if the team asking if he likes men was San Francisco? Changes the debate, doesn’t it?