OT: DFW sports anchor rant re: Michael Sam
Dale Hansen, the Dallas-Ft Worth ABC news affiliate sports anchor, went on a rant that has gone viral. He went off on the NFL and the hipocracy regarding Sam's qualifications and the perception the NFL is left with regards to his draft stock.
Like or hate him, he makes some very strong points.
February 14th, 2014 at 12:05 AM ^
1. Some may feel uncomfortable with him in the locker room, but this is not an issue that Sam should have to concern himself with. Those players will have to find a way to avoid the situations that lead to the discomfort, or just learn to accept the discomfort (like the discomfort they likely feel knowing that playing football causes brain damage).
2. Sam should be commended for coming out before the draft because A) it gives teams who don't want a gay player the opportunity to not draft him and B) this way his sexuality will not surface in the middle of the season, which would certainly be a major team distraction.
3. The attention he has and will receive is not his fault. The man did not want to live a lie (trust me, it's not fun) and the commotion that has follows is not his doing.
4. I can assure you that Sam would be more than happy to live his life as a gay man without all the extra attention. Unfortunately that is not the society in which we live.
February 14th, 2014 at 12:06 AM ^
Typical misguided rhetoric on civil rights. Being Gay is unnatural and unproductive. Being black is not. The mouth is for food, the butthole is for crap, and the penus is for the vagina to make offspring. Two men don't make a baby.