Millen Apologizes for Derogatory Term -wont lose job for bad coaching, might for calling Morton gay

LARRY LAGE ^ | Monday, December 15, 2003 | LARRY LAGE

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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Detroit Lions president Matt Millen apologized Monday for using a derogatory term for gays in a heated exchange with Kansas City receiver Johnnie Morton.

Millen was talking with Kansas City players and coaches outside their locker room after the Chiefs' 45-17 victory Sunday when he ran into Morton, cut by Millen after the 2001 season.

Millen, also the Lions' general manager, said he congratulated Morton but was greeted with an insult from the player.

"Unfortunately, I retaliated with a derogatory term directed toward Johnnie," Millen said in a statement. "I apologize if I offended anyone. It was certainly not meant to do anything other than express my frustration and disappointment."

Morton apologized for his part in the exchange, but was disappointed by Millen's choice of words.

"What he said is demeaning and bigoted," Morton told The Kansas City Star. "Jeremy Shockey got in trouble for saying it about a coach (Bill Parcells), and now we have a president of a team making statements like that. It's totally unacceptable. I have gay friends, and I don't even joke around with them like that."

Last summer, Shockey called Parcells a "homo" in a New York magazine article.

Millen has been the focus of several controversies in his three years heading the Lions, who are 4-10 this season.

He was fined $200,000 this summer by the NFL because he didn't follow the league's minority hiring policy when he hired coach Steve Mariucci.

During the 2002 season, Millen called an unidentified player a "devout coward." Millen later apologized.

[Dan from Michigan]

That's what I was thinking. He sure whined like one as well.....

[Grampa Dave]

Probably all white coaches and managers and soon after this owners are probably required to take PC/Diversity/Sensitivity and anger management courses at this time.

[ladyinred]

Alrighty then. Yes, that coach should certainly lose his job! Afterall, sticks and stones can hurt my bones, and words are now illegal! This is getting STUPID folks!!!!

[TSgt]

Nice.

Thanks for posting my photo.

I said I'm a homo...sapian, i.e. human.

Main Entry: sa·pi·ens
Pronunciation: 'sa-pE-&nz, 'sA-, -"enz
Function: adjective
Etymology: New Latin (specific epithet of Homo sapiens), from Latin, present participle of sapere
Date: 1939
: of, relating to, or being recent humans (Homo sapiens) as distinguished from various fossil hominids

[Brimack34]

"What he said is demeaning and bigoted," You imagine a big tough football player saying something like that?

[motzman]

I bet you're gay...

[motzman]

Ooops!



I bet you're gay

[DouglasKC]

As every Detroit fan knows, Millen is completely gay for getting rid of Morton and bringing in such stellar receivers like Billy (don't hit me too hard or I'll drop the ball....aw heck I'll just drop it before you hit me) Schroeder and Az (I no longer have other dangerous receivers who take all the focus off me) Hakim.

[Dan from Michigan]

Bill Schroeder....I can't stand that guy. How can a guy with that much talent and size suck so badly.

[DouglasKC]

Bill Schroeder....I can't stand that guy. How can a guy with that much talent and size suck so badly.

He thought he was all that with Green Bay and when Favre booted him out he lost the false sense of confidence that at least let him function somewhat at a high level. Now he just sucks.

[blam]

I still call'em queers.

[little jeremiah]

The Nazis did not burn homosexuals. Many of them were homosexual themselves. In fact, practically the only homosexuals incarcerated in Nazi camps were the effeminate ones, whom the Nazis scorned as being subhuman, compared to their own ultra-masculine butch style homosexual militaristic ideal.

I notice that a lot of your posts are in support of the homosexual agenda. Get your facts right - check the Homosexual Bump list for articles, or check scripter's profile page for a vast resource of information.
I suspect that the term "fag" or "faggot" comes from British "public" school use - the upper classmen would use the lower classmen as menial servants - as well as sodomizing them. The term used for this was "fagging", IIRC.