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"everybody getting reported now.."
(set 23 days ago)
Location: Pine Grove,AL
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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
On a football scholarship. Now he thinks he knows the meaning of life.
But it seems that his punting sucks the more he talks in public. You can count on him kicking short and into the endzone on Sundays after he does one of his public rants.
He was great before he became the swammi of the NFL.
If he was accepted to UCLA that means he had the grades to get in. Football players are not excluded from admissions standards.
Would the public at large respect them more or less if they stepped out of the proverbial closet? The majority of the public is straight and traditional. There are millions of sports fans. Most would respect them less and not more. This is just more social engineering to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.
Stop projecting your own malfunctions and prejudices on the public at large.
Your are in an ever-shrinking minority. The sooner you understand and ACCEPT that, the better for everyone.
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Originally Posted by Oleg Bach
Personally I can not respect a person fully if they are homosexual...that's just me...I have the right to express that lack of respect. MEN...expect their sports idols to be manly and gay is not as manly as straight.
And time and time again you actually think that gay people give two damns about whether or not you - Oleg Bach - respect them or consider them "full men."
And similarly, do you care that people may not fully respect you, or your opinions on this issue? Do you care that they your opinions are the stereotypical ramblings of old men who find themselves being marginalized as they age (and who may have also had too much to smoke in the 1960s.)
Vikings drafted a punter in this years NFL draft. Their current punter is already hinting that his stance for gay rights is why they are trying to "run him outta the league" so to say.
It's a smart strategy although it doesn't seem to work all that well. The Ravens player who is a gay rights radical was cut after the Super Bowl.
So let me get it straight. He wrote one letter saying he was gay, did not mention it again, nor talk about it in any capacity on his show, yet you think he was making a "big issue" of it ?
your problems seems to be him coming out in the first place, because if it is not, you are just uninformed on what happened.
And how exactly did that change your opinion of him, did his reporting some how change ?
The floodgates will now be opened. One can only wonder where this will lead. Will this diminish the stature of professional athletes? Will straight children now look to gay men as role models? What happens when players on opposite sides of the ball are married to each other? We have brothers facing each other now, but husbands and "wives"?
1. No, it will not diminish the stature of professional athletes.
2. Straight children already look to gay men as role models. Or you've never heard of Alexander the Great, Alan Turing, or Jim Parsons?
3. If two men are married to each other, neither is the "wife". It is possible, but extremely unlikely, that the situation you pose could happen.
I think everyone is just sick of listening to Kluwe the know it all. He doesn't understand that he makes a million bucks a year kicking a ball and he would make about 20 bucks a year dishing out his ideas and advice.
If not for the NFL he would just be some blowhard working at Taco Bell. That is why the Vikes are going to dump him, the team is sick of listening to him and the management is sick of seeing him quoted in the paper on every hot button topic.
Kluwe is an idiot who doesn't know how insignificant he is and how lucky he is to have a job in the NFL.
A punter no less. You notice in the NFL the real stars generally stay away from the media? Not too much advocacy except for charities. My guess is guys mouthing off to the press about their opinions on controversial topics aren't that popular in the locker room.
Status:
"everybody getting reported now.."
(set 23 days ago)
Location: Pine Grove,AL
29,552 posts, read 16,542,682 times
Reputation: 6039
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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
How many college grads to do you know that are either unemployed or having to take a job beneath them?
He wouldn't be making a million bucks a year without football and no one would be listening to his boring opinions.
You are changing your argument. at first you said he would be working at taco bell, now you are simply saying he wouldnt be making a million dollars a year. Stick to one argument man.
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