"Wondertwin powers...activate! Form of a retired NFL has been"
,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.
I’ve read the average career in the NFL is 3 years.
No thanks.
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.
I didn’t know Deadspin accepted columns written in bathhouses.
Cue the “Ha! Ha!” guy.
"Wondertwin powers...activate! Form of a retired NFL has been"
What a hero.
We all saw what happened when Phil Robertson spoke out.
Me thinks The boy was a pigskin fluffer.
Punters don’t really play football.
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.
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.
Ben Rothlesberger survived doing some stupid things such as hosting parties where he reportedly got drunk, crude, and ran about with his schlong sticking out. He survived because he was a great quarterback.
Jeff Reed, the team kicker, got involved in far less embarrassing stunts which proved to be the final straw in getting him released. It wasn't the stunts, it was the fact he'd gone too far south in the capacity of doing his job.
Apparently, the owner of the team, Zygi Wilf, didn’t go to bat for him.
This kicker was terribly ignorant.
No, Chris, you weren’t an NFL player. You were a punter. And truth be told there are a lot of fans of other teams who think the entire Minnesota franchise is gay, anyway.
All of these homosexual bigots and their supporters are self centered, pompous and carry a chip on their shoulder. Anyone who dares disagree with them are to be personally and professionally destroyed. The liberal mantra of tolerance, diversity, compassion and open mindedness are all only for those who agree with them, no conservative or traditionalist is to be accorded those courtesies. Certainly there are other opportunities for this former Viking. Maybe he could advise his buddies that homosexual sex causes fatal diseases, that activities similar to those taking place in SF’s gay parades causes serious injuries to the body and that homosexual men have a life expectancy 20-25 years shorter than straight, monogomos men. Public service announcements along those lines would be most helpful to the male homosexual community, if he can find any media outlet to air those PSAs.
The NFL doesn’t have a kluwe.
of course the fact the guy can’t kick for squat couldn’t possibly be the reason…./s
A good punter and arguably the best the Vikings ever had but too much of a drama queen for just a kicker.
Obvious to me he was fired for being a PITA. He felt the need to comment on everthing. It's no wonder no other team wants him.