Posted on 06/25/2013 3:24:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Your heartwarming story of the day: Anthony Nicodemo, the head coach for the Saunders High School basketball team in Yonkers, started to think about coming out of the closet after Jason Collins announced that he was gay in April. Last month, the 35-year-old went to an LGBT sports conference where he heard Collins speak firsthand. It was then that, despite his apprehensions about the reaction of his players and the risk of losing his position, Nicodemo resolved to finally come out. At a team meeting yesterday, he told a group of past and present players that he was gay. The players "literally embraced him," reports Outsports.
They also embraced him, less literally, on Twitter:
Four words kid.... soap on a rope.
Basketball.
Too many bean balls.
Though I stand by what I wrote.
Yeah, I see this ending good. /sarc
“All people do. And then one day, they don’t. History always repeats.”
Sorry Norm, the observation was so pithy and timely it bore repeating.
Post of the year, in my opinion.
"Enlightened" parents: *yawn*
Heh..."Last one to pick up the soap is a rotten egg!"
Why did they embrace him? Out of respect for his bravery, honor, courage and hero type tendancies I guess. The guy getting his ass shot off in Iraq can’t hold a candle to a fag who comes out of the closet.
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