I personally don't really believe ole dude he would of been all that cool about it. He knows damn well duded would of been clowned for being the gay football player on the field. He just said he called him soft for singing like Whitney Houston. People always give the PS stuff but in the back of the head they thinking oh that's this "gay dude". People look at you differently when your publicly "out". Also Esera played in the 90's and last 3 teams were all in the south; Jags, Falcons, and Panthers. Not to mentioned how coaches and staff would have treated him (ie choosing not to hire like Sam). I don't blame dude for waiting until he retired (and made his money) to come out.
Completely agree...AND he said "you have to be a really good player. You can't be marginal if you're a gay player" and I'm like what about all the marginal straight players?
True, but it's like being black in the workplace, knowing that, unfair or not, you have to be twice as good to be get half as much. It's not fair, but it is what it is. I got so tired of the ms media trying to manufacture a hero narrative and make Michael Sam and Jason Collins out to be the new gay Jackie Robisons, when neither of them was as good as Robinson in their sport. That's why they were crash and burns. Sam and Collins didn't understand this so they allowed themselves to be hired actors in someone else's play. Even athletes like Orlando Cruz and Derrick Gordon, who were more in control of their own narrative than Sam and Collins, didn't get the promised support. The media and liberals are full of shit. They encourage these athletes to come out and it will be peaches and cream and then abandon their asses at the first of flawed narrative. Tualo was smart and did it right.
"we"? Mike Sam and Derrick Gordon are not professional players because of their sexuality in my opinion.
Collins was at the end of his career when he came out and was a marginal player when he wasn't out. Sorry to say but aspiring players and current players in the NFL and NBA (not so much the MLB, IMO) need to keep their non-heterosexuality under wraps in order to get hired or keep their current job. See the Kerry Rhodes situation.
Also he talked about going to a pent houses with girls. SO what if Eseara wanted to go to a pent house full of 10 good looking male gay models. Would his teammate be willing to join just to chill and smoke and drank, play cards? O while Eseara went to other room to get the gay VIP service of course lol. The sad truth for a Gay player is that their going to have to be a player on the level of an OB3 or vet like Larry Fitz to make it. Also have really stuff skin to deal with the taunting. Another thing that's not talked about is I believe there're prob more bi-sexual and pan-sexual NFLers than gay players (*coughing Kerry Rh...Cough cough lol). But then your getting into word label technicality and the sexuality fluidity scale stuff. Try explaining being pan-sexual to the public and teammates lol.
Oh Also what about the whole NFL domestic violence issue. Both Eseara and Kwame Harris, were involved in domestic violence incidences with their respective partners. Would the NFL be wiling to talk about LBGT domestic violence and treat it with the same awareness it does with heterosexual domestic violence. With dudes fighting; I think not.
Sorry about the "we" part but I saw a few people on the board saying that for Gorden and Sam to have kept their jobs they had to be beyound abouve avagre to be consider a good enough playerI I feel getting mad at him for that part of what he said a liitle redundent cause we all know its true
I have to call bs on this. If the locker room was so accepting of gay players then you would at least have more rumors of gay players in the league. Of course dude is going to get on camera and say the "right" thing because the opposite opinion will get you ridiculed all over the media and next thing you know you have to submit a apology. I do agree that its going to take that gay super star to break the barrier though. Having a certain status on the team(being one of the best) makes all the difference on and off the field/court.
Truth. All of that shit and meeting the press and on the cover of magazines and who mentions Collins now? The Gay Elite is all about themselves and their agenda and will use and then toss away anyone. Are 'the Gays' doing anything to keep these guys relevant, talked about, as role models...etc.?
Anther thing. It seems that women sports are light-years ahead of accepting lbgt players having gay relationships with each other and even marrying each other in the same sport or league. Brittney and Glory (WNBA) or Joanna Lohman and Lianne Sanderson (soccer). I said this before but what if someone like Le'veon bell and OB3 or say Kelvin Benjamin and Larry Fitzgerald(both dread heads lol ) or Tyrann Mathieu and Victor Cruz were in a open gay relationship and decided to get married. Would fans and teammates be open to that like in women sports? Would Marcellus be open to coming to the wedding if invited? There is a huge double standard of acceptance between lesbian athletes and black gay male athletes.
I kinda took it to mean, he couldve come out to his team, not necessarily publicly. Players have known about gay teammates for years across many sports. There's no doubt he would've gotten clowned and joked on, ijs.
Its about getting clicks . Valdtv markets to the "hood" crowd so you know ppl are going to click and view the video just to post hood stuff and black pseudo-woke folk who post conspiracy theories about how the "gay agenda" is a depopulation strategy and "weapon" to destroy the black family and black menhood lol.