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Posted on 05/26/2015 6:06:42 PM PDT by Salman
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Brian Burke believes the Montreal Alouettes signing of Michael Sam is a tipping point in professional sports.
The Calgary Flames president of hockey operations, who co-founded You Can Play in memory of his late son, says the arrival of the openly gay player in the CFL will be a watershed moment.
"I think it's huge," Burke told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. "To me, this is one of those 20, 30, 40 years from now, people will look back and say 'remember when Michael Sam signed with the Alouettes?'
"We know we have gay athletes in all sports. I think other gay athletes are going to see the reception that Michael Sam gets and how wonderful it's going to be for him."
The Alouettes signed the 25-year-old Sam to a contract and introduced him on Tuesday.
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Perhaps he can live in the former home of La Grand Orange.
Oh I don’t know, he may be able to play powder puff football.
Maybe they can sign the first guy into auto asphyxiation too. Be really cutting edge. It would be a “historic” moment
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The French team surrendered to pressure?
How does one say “suck” in French?
PT Barnum comes to mind, without the success.
Well, I’ve even heard of women referred to as ‘guys’ as in “hey, are you guys coming over for a barbecue?” but nevertheless, your point is well taken. I agree... faggot works for me although some freeper probably has a much more imaginative term that combines the concepts of homo, pervert, an effete and the Biblical reference of an effeminate....
I had to laugh when you mentioned Kansas City. It made me think of that line in Blazing Saddles “What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here? I hired you people to get a little track laid, not jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.”
Brian Burke sounds like a jerk. Hey, that rhymes.
Calgary Flames. Right name for this guy’s team.
I actually hope he succeeds because I have two football cards of his, now worthless unless you are collecting cards of criminals and weirdos (I do have a nice collection of Rae Carruthers and Ray Lewis, plus some of the murdered Washington Redskin’s Sean Taylor (I think I’ve got the right Sean).
Oh, I do have a Doug Flutie card from the old Canadian Football League. Worth about 5 cents, Canadian money.
Crude, but exactly right. They're judging his career on his sex life. That's so weird.
WGsAF?
It will end when one of two things happen: gays accept what they are doing is wrong and repent, or they stop trying to convince themselves it's not.
In other words, never.
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Break a leg....
Canada Ping!
The liberal media.
“The Copernicus of the anus.” -Mark Corrigan, Peep Show
How can anybody take this seriously?
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