Posted on 03/26/2013 8:20:27 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
The NFL appears more ready than ever for an openly gay player. It's possible we'll find out how ready this offseason.
CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman wrote Monday that he was told a current gay NFL player strongly is considering coming out publicly. The plan would be for the unnamed player to do so in the next few months, then carry on with his NFL career.
Freeman based the information on several interviews with active and former NFL players, but the reporter doesn't know who the player is. If the player does come out, it would be a landmark moment in U.S. professional team sports.
The topic of homosexuality and gay rights never has been so much a part of NFL discussion. Players like Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo and Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe have spoken loudly in support of gay marriage throughout the last year. New York Giants owner Steve Tisch, NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith and players like Scott Fujita, Scott Shanle, D'Qwell Jackson and Eric Winston are among those who supported a brief filed to the U.S. Supreme Court related to Proposition 8 in California. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week on the proposition that banned same-sex marriage in the state.
The NFL might be more ready than ever for a gay player, but that's still not saying much. The NFL is progressive in so many ways, and yet it's far behind the times on openly gay players. That's true for all major pro sports.
Fujita believes NFL players are ready.
"I honestly think the players of the NFL have been ready for an openly gay player for quite some time now," Fujita told Freeman. "Trust me, the coming out of a player would create much bigger waves outside the locker room than inside."
A player coming out certainly would create a lot of attention. It would take a lot of courage, and the act would make it easier for the men who come out publicly after. Frankly, the moment feels inevitable and almost overdue. Progress waits for no one
Even given the small percentage of actual gay people, it seems unfathomable that no people with gay tendencies have ever made it to the NFL.
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Roman Gabriel, QB for the LA Rams, was gay. The wide receiver that went by the nickname “Bambi”, Lance Rentzel, was also (I believe), and he married (briefly) Joey Hetherton (super hot!) who was a lez. Bambi made to the Hall of Fame in ‘78, after his careers at the Chargers and Cowboys.
I might be wrong about Rentzel, but that was the common talk around town when he was with the Cowboys.
I would not have particularly liked sharing a locker room or shower with a known gay. However, many things are “forgiven” when a player in ANY sport performs well to help the team win and does not disrupt the team in any way due to their personal sexual persuasions. Generally, being queer (male or female) is less damaging behaviour to a team than doing drugs or driving drunk and crashing, if the queer is a dependable contributor to team success.
I’d guess that probably 5% of college and pro sports teams are gay/lesbian.
I believe it, if the tall guy in the pic is Quinn.
Why the Hell would any man shave his body hair from his chest?
Here we go...
Football is like a religion to many...
So the “gay” mafia has it in it’s sights just like formal religion...
Bit by bit, our world is crumbling....
Understand what you said and probably what you meant. But really 2 issues here, the one you made, and the one I made.
I think the issue I brought up dwarfs everything else and is barely noticed. Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
I think 5% is too high. They compose 2-3.5% of the populace, so the extra 1.5-3% boost in their football playing share doesn’t make sense.
Especially given the general tendency to not be driven in pursuit of violent sport prowess. (Yes - that is a vast generalization, and does not mean individuals cannot be exceptions to the rule)
Just my $.02
LOL! I meant heavyweight wrestling. Got my letters wrong. ;-)
Ancient Western civilizations were steeped in beauty- and body-worship, and cruelty, pederasty and homosexual sex came along with it. Biblical morality sublimated that ancient pagan energy into the greatest civilization ever known. Removing that Biblical morality is taking us back to the horrors of those pagan roots.
Just as the environmental movement is also a return to a past era of earth worship.
Tell him to keep it to himself, and out of our faces.
Next thing you know Slash will do an imitation of an NFL quarterback...Oh wait.
During Alex Karras short tenure with Monday Night Football, he once said while watching a team huddle, “There a few guys in the huddle that you don’t turn your back on and bend over to pick up soap in the shower.”
Who cares! I love football. I hope the doogooders don’t ruin it, the latest rule change banning players from lowering their heads, is incredibly stupid. I didn’t explain the rule change very well.
The issue I brought up is really the issue behind ALL of liberalism. No matter what the cause in particular is.
Liberalism is all about the self-centeredness of the liberal. The whole world has to revolve around THEM. What THEY want. What THEY demand. What they say THEY need.
No matter if it’s homosexuality, feminism, welfare takers, ecofreaks, whatever. It’s all about them.
You must be stopped at telling me I am wrong or bad. You further must be forced to tell me I am good. I am specially protected because of people like you. My worldview is superior to yours, and you cannot tell me it’s worse, and you will be made to tell me my way is right and better than yours.
And really the whole issue of self-centeredness - the “Do whatever you want” - the core of it - is just another way of framing the Satanists’ greatest commandment - “Do what thou wilt.” Liberalism’s self centeredness is nothing but the fulfillment of the Satanists’ highest virtue.
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