I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot

Deadspin ^ | Jan 2, 2014 | Chris Kluwe

[C19fan]

Many of us who follow the NFL know this guy is a sanctimonious piece of work and this article provides another piece of evidence. The guy must be insufferable in the locker room. He even admits at the end of the piece the real football related reasons he was let go and never found another NFL job (emphasis mine):

,Whether it's my age, my minimum veteran salary, my habit of speaking my mind, or (most likely) a combination of all three, my time as a football player is done. Punters are always replaceable, at least in the minds of those in charge, and I realize that in advocating noisily for social change I only made it easier for them to justify not having me around. So it goes.

[driftdiver]

I’ve read the average career in the NFL is 3 years.

[ClearCase_guy]

Allow myself to tell you a story about ... myself.

No thanks.

[Jim Robinson]

Bigot? Those who attack the Bible and Christianity are the bigots. We have a big problem in Houston when good becomes evil and evil becomes good.

[nascarnation]

My buddy’s kid (tight end/H-back/spec teams) was on 7 pro rosters in 4 years.

If you’re a marginal player, you gotta be flexible, LOL.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I didn’t know Deadspin accepted columns written in bathhouses.

[867V309]

Cue the “Ha! Ha!” guy.

[icwhatudo]

"Wondertwin powers...activate! Form of a retired NFL has been"

[massgopguy]

Punters are replaceable? Hell you say. Not even Ray Guy is in the Hall of Fame.....yet......

[Third Person]

What a hero.

[Colonel_Flagg]

If they gave Ray Guy a bust in Canton it would float to the ceiling. :)

[GeronL]

it's a story about the price people all too often pay for speaking out

We all saw what happened when Phil Robertson spoke out.

[Autonomous User]

Me thinks The boy was a pigskin fluffer.

[Captainpaintball]

I didn’t know Deadspin accepted columns written in bathhouses.

That's where all that gawker media horseshit is written.

[Lx]

What is the purpose of the ‘L’ in PFLAG’s name, seems to make more sense without it.

What does straight OR equality mean?

[reagandemocrat]

Punters don’t really play football.

[Sir Napsalot]

So the guy was in his prime, but due to his ‘activism’, he got fired (*released)?

Yet another person won’t face reality and trying to find more relevancy. But NOW he’s going to enjoy his 15 min of fame. Be a leftie “hero” as his second career.

[lee martell]

He was warned. Yes, you can speak up about causes, but on a topic as sensitive as this one, why risk your career? Why make your team a magnet for political criticism? I think he enjoyed the attention, which is not so horrible, but this was done to the point of taking focus off the team efforts. Be an activist on your own time. He made things much worse by ridiculing of slamming anyone who disagreed with him. That is the way you make enemies who don’t forget.

[Lx]

One of the columns in that magazine is, “Tel Aviv, our big gay adventure” should end with Leviticus 20:13 being applied.

[cherry]

I guess if you're kluwe you do indeed have to be "flexible"...ahemm....in certain situations anyway....

but moving on, this guy is creep and a backstabber and a crybaby to boot.....glad he's gone and hopefully now he can move on to his full time career of being a gay guy......