NFL Draft Prospect Comes Out

Very well said MS :freehug:

 

:freehug: I only speak the truth. After all, I am the Morning Star...

Too bad no one can appreciate that.

 

Could not agree with you more. The easy thing for him to do was to keep who he is hidden and just play football. Why, because it makes other people more comfy? Eff that. I hope to see this happen again and again until it's no longer an issue in anything.

 

It'll be easy for the selfish people...but at the cost of his own psychological and perhaps physical health, which may affect his performance when he's under a great deal of pressure.

As long as we have poor generalizations of a certain community, they have to break some walls to prove a point that they shan't be fitted in a certain stereotype and in the end, people will see past their own ignorance. It happened with race and gender, thus sexual orientation is just another obstacle society would have to mature from.

 

Naive.

Coming out is about recognizing his ability to compete at the highest level of football without being negatively judged as a gay man. He wants to be treated like the heterosexual players who can go out in public with their wives, mistresses or roadside skanks.

This also about America and what direction we're going to take as a nation. Saddle up next to Nigeria, Russia and other countries where it is horrific to be gay or blaze a different path?

 

As per usual...well said, my friend.

 

If he didn't do it you better believe someone else would have along with a long list of everyone he had an encounter with. This was a better move at least the "shock" won't affect his career later.
People are fucking immature and believe these sports guys owe them details about their lives and make a circus out of it if they don't.
Like athletes who cheat on their wives and deliver an apology to the masses for something that doesn't affect them. Do we need to know who Tiger Woods fucked besides his wife? Nope but the public demands it and the media made a circus out of his life trying to find who he was involved with.
We the people create this environment where people feel the need to tell all in order to compete because we scrutinize their lives.
And we constantly divulge unnecessary information about our lives at work. No one cares if your proud to be an American or a Christian. Shit the T-Bow kneel was a big deal for awhile and I didn't see anyone tell people to keep their nationalism and choice of religion to themselves. What about all the players who are atheists or non Christian religions why do they have to be constantly reminded of someone's religious preferences? I don't hear anyone griping about it. He came out, so the fuck what. Now lets see how he plays.

 

I agree that this young man has courage. However, people don't make announcements about their sexual orientation if they want to be just one of the guys. This young man knew very well what his announcement meant for his career and life. In a few short words he has made himself the face of an entire movement.

 

I personally think he did a preemptive strike. It wasn't secret and he did this before someone outed him. This way, he could do it on his own terms instead of dealing with a potentially worse situation if someone else outer him.

 

That definitely played a part. Also I think he probably is legitimately cool with his same sex attraction and don't feel he should hide it in the macho world of the NFL.

Its like hey "I'm gay and I can play ball with the next dude and be just as good" so it is what it is. Once that is out the way deal with me as another player on the field with a job to do.

I mean after all dude was an All Defensive player in the best college football conference, the SEC, so he has skills, not like he was riding the bench and is run of the mill talent wise.

 

LOL, some folks when commenting on the internet on sites such as ESPN and other sports sites when the story broke were acting like the dude will see naked men in the locker room and stare and his mouth will start watering at their dicks or try to hump dudes in the pile or something. :smt043

I imagine as a very good college player, he has been playing football for a long while, so he has been around guys in locker rooms without losing his mind sexually.

I understand not everyone is copacetic about homosexuality, but hey they are people with lives and interests outside of who they fuck. Their life to live as they desire to.

I wouldn't care for anyone to tell me I can't date and fuck white women, because I'm a black male.

 

Preach!

 

This happened with another NFL player, Kerry Rhodes, lots of rumors he was gay after images surfaced with his gay assistant. He didn't get a contract last season despite being in his prime. Gay rumors may have played a part in teams shying away, because his free safety numbers the previous season was good.

 

That's pretty much the gist of it all. Well said, bro!

And yeah, the other post you brought up...that's what I'm talking about. Hell, even the basketball player who came out suffered a good deal by not getting a contract or anything. I'm more than inclined to believe that it wasn't his playing skills that prevented him from being signed onto another team.

 

Notice how in a rush to judgement its overlooked by critics that he told his teammates he is gay before the College Football Season and went out and played all season just fine. The world didn't come to an end. Missouri topped the SEC East, ranked 5th in the nation, losing only 2 games, and won the Cotton Bowl over Oklahoma State.

He was direct with his teammates at Mizzou and now is being direct with the NFL, better than hiding it only to have it become running gossip should he become a star in the NFL.

 

Of course. Hiding it wouldn't do any good and it would lead to that very thing you said...gossip.

 

Bingo.

 

I think he should've waited until he was earning beaucoup bucks in the nfl, rather than risk sabotaging himself

And if someone else outed him, what's the dif? They out him, he says "so?", everyone knows how he acts in the locker room already and he sues the hell out of anyone who gives him problems

As it stands, he's simply given ammunition to the "stealth bigots" who can now give him the thumbs down for contrived reasons

Kinda like telling people your race in a phone interview for a job