Posted on 10/27/2009 8:34:42 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson just issued an apology for hurling a gay slur at reporters yesterday -- but it was too late ... the team has already sidelined him from team activities.
Here's Johnson's apology:
First of all, I want to apologize to the fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and the rest of the NFL, Commissioner Goodell, the Chiefs organization, Coach Todd Haley, his staff, and my teammates for the words I used yesterday"
"I regret my actions. The words were used by me in frustration, and they were not appropriate. I did not intend to offend anyone, but that is no excuse for what I said. "
"I also want to apologize to all the kids who view athletes as role models. I was not a good role model yesterday and hopefully I can become a better role model. We all make mistakes, and the challenge is to learn from them. I will do my best to learn from this one as I move toward becoming a better person, teammate, and member of the Kansas City chiefs team and community."
The Chiefs have "instructed Larry to refrain from practicing with the Chiefs or participating in other team activities" while they conduct an internal investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371493/posts
Sure enough, he was. GLAAD responded to his apology:
GLAAD has responded to Larry Johnson's apology for hurling a gay slur at reporters yesterday -- and they're hoping the ordeal can be used as an example to other players in the NFL.
President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Jarrett Barrios tells TMZ: "Larry Johnson's apology sends an important message that there is no excuse for using anti-gay epithets.
GLAAD is continuing to call on the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs to use this unfortunate incident as a way to educate and start a dialogue with players and fans regarding the dangers of homophobia in sports."
As we previously reported, the Kansas City Chiefs have already sidelined Johnson from team activities.
http://www.tmz.com/2009/10/27/glaad-larry-johsnon-kansas-city-chiefs-statement/
Now maybe they can go back to winning football games.
Gay mafia wins again.
FFS. Chiefs are losers in more ways than one.
That's so gay!
The NFL is going lib. I hope the Chiefs are this year’s Lions.
Chief act like squaw
Suckers.
Wonder if an ESPN reporter will report this while he’s abusing a member of the staff.
You’d think that we’d all be somewhat indoctrinated at least by osmosis after all these years, but I still can’t get my head around a world in which someone has to apologise for calling depravity, depravity.
Soooo....it was OK that he “assaulted” reporters in a hostile manner. But incidentally calling them “gay” was crossing the line, huh?
“there is no excuse for using anti-gay epithets.”
Boy, ALOT of kids in schoolyards are going to be in big trouble. I’m sure the liberal weinies would be all about bringing back corporal punishment if it has to do with offending abnormal behaviors.
OK that’s somewhere in Missouri, right?
In case any of you don't care to read the article I linked to, let me summarize: Mr. Johnson said he only wants to play for black coaches.
First Al Sharpton becomes the NFL’s new Commissioner, and now the gay mafia makes fools out of them.
I am laughing my arse off.
And they’ll keep it up as long as conservatives or plain average Americans continue to watch. It’ll get even more blatant. Surely a stupid game especially of professionals can’t be that important in the scheme of things? I could understand a tiny bit more if it was supporting your school or alma mater.
WHAT WAS THE SLUR, you sodomite freaks?!;)
NFL Football, a game where a bunch of fat black men play grab a** on TV. Dang, now I’ll check in at rehab.
Yeah and I’m done with the NFL too. Let the PC crowd support it, let’s see how long it lasts. It was becoming an increasingly boring and inferior product as it was.
Rush wouldn’t have bowed to GLAAD’s demands.
(And those solid stats are not from a single long run that inflates their average. No KC runner has a rush of 25+ yds this year. Savage's longest is 11.)
LOL.
They won’t since they did win a game.
Joplin. I have driven past it a few times.
Me too. I just couldn’t remember where.
...suprised they didn't define this as a "teachable moment"
Well, it’s all about “if it feels good, do it”. The hippie counterculture commie numbskulls who coined that phrase are now running the country/s
Liberals don’t do sports anyway.
The NFL sucks.
I boycotted the NFL for three whole seasons(1996-98).
I heard that KC is going to hold sensitivity training in the shower room. Bring your own soap.
In other words, don't dare say anything about fags, dykes, or NAMBLA freaks, or we'll take money away from you.
I've had enough.
If only enough felt like you do! That’s what’s gotten us to this pass, people just can’t delay their gratification in the most meaningless forms-reality TV shows, NFL, NBA, etc—all supporting either liberalism or the dumbing-down of America. I don’t mean everyone has to sit around reading War And peace. Take a kid fishing, play football ourselves with buddies, whatever. Whatever did we do before worshipping before the electronic idol?
He had one in Herm Edwards then LJ quit trying after Edwards’ first season.
Have good friends in Joplin. Can’t repeat our conversation first time we saw that sign on a visit there.
“remember when we had free speech in America... “
you still have free speech in this country as you will not be punished by a government for using language that may offend.
However, the KC Chiefs are not a government entity and can fine and suspend their employees for speech they feel is offensive.
Edwards was a good coach. But the Chiefs’ suckitude did him in.
Interesting how a bunch of queers have managed to turn some of America's toughest, most macho men into quivering mice. Saddest thing is that all the kids who view athletes as role models think the same way about homosexual perverts as this football player does. They are filthy, disgusting perverts and everyone knows it. It is this kind of groveling to queers that will make grovelers of our kids. This guy had the chance to be a man of honor and a HERO to many if he stood up and said, "I meant what I said, the media are a bunch of slithering homos".
It was “they were holding our tight ends, and if they even think about doing it again, I’m going to run them over!”
Mr. Johnson did claim that he was talking about football, but he should know that in 21st century America, all words must be interpreted in the worst possible way.
(Okay, I have no idea what Mr. Johnson really said. But the guy is paid to run over linebackers, not be a civil rights spokesman, so I don’t think it’s that big a deal.)
Rush looks like a fool still talking about NFL games. The NFL smeared him and pawned him and he is still a stooge fan. I really like Rush but he looks like a fool still fawning over the NFL games.
Stupid sucker NFL and college football fans make golf enjoyable because on Sat and Sun afternoon while they are watching stupid sucker ball games - the golf course is empty. The course is also empty due to Obama’s Depression but stupid NFL fans love Obama and the thug league.
The question right now is will the Commissioner Roger Goodell officially suspend Johnson—probably a minimum of four games?
Yep, FDR (if not Wilson) got socialism sneaked in through the back door—even then, before TV, Hollywood was laying subtle groundwork for having empathy for immorality, sympathy for criminals, unwed motherhood, etc. I think that way back at least their hearts were in the right place and they just didn’t see what it was going to lead to. In the 60s they took, no ripped the mask off.
I’m not ancient (not quite) and I can remember a world where at least average Americans would never be confronted, have their visual images polluted, with the sight of proud fags out of the closet. there was a time when you had to “knlow” to know, and a lot of us didn’t “know”. I wish I still didn’t.
Was the pole at half staff that day, too?
This NFL fan wishes Zero had never been elected.
And then Johnson uttered a sentence that surely will catch the interest of the league office.
Per KCSP, Johnson said partially under his breath, “Get your faggot asses out of here.”
Oh, noes! Only a faggot would make a big deal out of this.
“If a man lies with another man as with a woman it is an abomination.” Somewhere in Leviticus recorded by my very great lansman, Moses. NFL? Who needs it? Go Gators!
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