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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

http://www.wfaa.com/sports/dale-hansen/Dale-Hansen-Unplugged--244822291.html

It was quite a weekend.
That little dust-up in Lubbock Saturday night, and then on Sunday, Missouri's All-American defensive end Michael Sam — the SEC's defensive player of the year and expected to be a third to fifth-round pick in the NFL draft — tells the world he's gay.
The best defensive player in college football's best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That is shocking, and I guess that other thing is, too.
Michael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL; says he knows there will be problems... and they've already started.
Several NFL officials are telling Sports Illustrated it will hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn't be welcome in an NFL locker room. It would be uncomfortable, because that's a man's world.
You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by the roots? You're the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft.
You kill people while driving drunk? That guy's welcome.
Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they're welcome.
Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away?
You lie to police trying to cover up a murder?
We're comfortable with that.
You love another man? Well, now you've gone too far!
It wasn't that long ago when we were being told that black players couldn't play in "our" games because it would be "uncomfortable." And even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback.
Because we weren't "comfortable" with that, either.
So many of the same people who used to make that argument (and the many who still do) are the same people who say government should stay out of our lives.
But then want government in our bedrooms.
I've never understood how they feel "comfortable" laying claim to both sides of that argument.
I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay; I don't understand his world.
But I do understand that he's part of mine.
Civil rights activist Audre Lord said: "It is not our differences that divide us. It's our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
We've always been able to recognize 'em. Some of us accept 'em.
And I want to believe that there will be a day when we do celebrate 'em.
I don't know if that day's here yet. I guess we're about to find out.
But when I listen to Michael Sam, I do think it's time to celebrate him now.


Dale Hansen...stand up and take a bow!!!!

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

you are a bad bad very bad man!!!!
[;)]

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
http://www.wfaa.com/sports/dale-hansen/Dale-Hansen-Unplugged--244822291.html
It was quite a weekend.
That little dust-up in Lubbock Saturday night, and then on Sunday, Missouri's All-American defensive end Michael Sam — the SEC's defensive player of the year and expected to be a third to fifth-round pick in the NFL draft — tells the world he's gay.
The best defensive player in college football's best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That is shocking, and I guess that other thing is, too.
Michael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL; says he knows there will be problems... and they've already started.
Several NFL officials are telling Sports Illustrated it will hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn't be welcome in an NFL locker room. It would be uncomfortable, because that's a man's world.
You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by the roots? You're the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft.
You kill people while driving drunk? That guy's welcome.
Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they're welcome.
Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away?
You lie to police trying to cover up a murder?
We're comfortable with that.
You love another man? Well, now you've gone too far!
It wasn't that long ago when we were being told that black players couldn't play in "our" games because it would be "uncomfortable." And even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback.
Because we weren't "comfortable" with that, either.
So many of the same people who used to make that argument (and the many who still do) are the same people who say government should stay out of our lives.
But then want government in our bedrooms.
I've never understood how they feel "comfortable" laying claim to both sides of that argument.
I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay; I don't understand his world.
But I do understand that he's part of mine.
Civil rights activist Audre Lord said: "It is not our differences that divide us. It's our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
We've always been able to recognize 'em. Some of us accept 'em.
And I want to believe that there will be a day when we do celebrate 'em.
I don't know if that day's here yet. I guess we're about to find out.
But when I listen to Michael Sam, I do think it's time to celebrate him now.
Dale Hansen...stand up and take a bow!!!!

quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

http://www.wfaa.com/sports/dale-hansen/Dale-Hansen-Unplugged--244822291.html

It was quite a weekend.
That little dust-up in Lubbock Saturday night, and then on Sunday, Missouri's All-American defensive end Michael Sam — the SEC's defensive player of the year and expected to be a third to fifth-round pick in the NFL draft — tells the world he's gay.
The best defensive player in college football's best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That is shocking, and I guess that other thing is, too.
Michael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL; says he knows there will be problems... and they've already started.
Several NFL officials are telling Sports Illustrated it will hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn't be welcome in an NFL locker room. It would be uncomfortable, because that's a man's world.
You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by the roots? You're the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft.
You kill people while driving drunk? That guy's welcome.
Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they're welcome.
Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away?
You lie to police trying to cover up a murder?
We're comfortable with that.
You love another man? Well, now you've gone too far!
It wasn't that long ago when we were being told that black players couldn't play in "our" games because it would be "uncomfortable." And even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback.
Because we weren't "comfortable" with that, either.
So many of the same people who used to make that argument (and the many who still do) are the same people who say government should stay out of our lives.
But then want government in our bedrooms.
I've never understood how they feel "comfortable" laying claim to both sides of that argument.
I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay; I don't understand his world.
But I do understand that he's part of mine.
Civil rights activist Audre Lord said: "It is not our differences that divide us. It's our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
We've always been able to recognize 'em. Some of us accept 'em.
And I want to believe that there will be a day when we do celebrate 'em.
I don't know if that day's here yet. I guess we're about to find out.
But when I listen to Michael Sam, I do think it's time to celebrate him now.


Dale Hansen...stand up and take a bow!!!!

quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

http://www.wfaa.com/sports/dale-hansen/Dale-Hansen-Unplugged--244822291.html

It was quite a weekend.
That little dust-up in Lubbock Saturday night, and then on Sunday, Missouri's All-American defensive end Michael Sam — the SEC's defensive player of the year and expected to be a third to fifth-round pick in the NFL draft — tells the world he's gay.
The best defensive player in college football's best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That is shocking, and I guess that other thing is, too.
Michael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL; says he knows there will be problems... and they've already started.
Several NFL officials are telling Sports Illustrated it will hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn't be welcome in an NFL locker room. It would be uncomfortable, because that's a man's world.
You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by the roots? You're the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft.
You kill people while driving drunk? That guy's welcome.
Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they're welcome.
Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away?
You lie to police trying to cover up a murder?
We're comfortable with that.
You love another man? Well, now you've gone too far!
It wasn't that long ago when we were being told that black players couldn't play in "our" games because it would be "uncomfortable." And even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback.
Because we weren't "comfortable" with that, either.
So many of the same people who used to make that argument (and the many who still do) are the same people who say government should stay out of our lives.
But then want government in our bedrooms.
I've never understood how they feel "comfortable" laying claim to both sides of that argument.
I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay; I don't understand his world.
But I do understand that he's part of mine.
Civil rights activist Audre Lord said: "It is not our differences that divide us. It's our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
We've always been able to recognize 'em. Some of us accept 'em.
And I want to believe that there will be a day when we do celebrate 'em.
I don't know if that day's here yet. I guess we're about to find out.
But when I listen to Michael Sam, I do think it's time to celebrate him now.


Dale Hansen...stand up and take a bow!!!!

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ORIGINAL: kdsub
Jeff I am going to put my foot in mouth... The NFL is made up of a majority of African Americans. I think it is safe to say that African Americans as a whole have a different perspective on homosexuality than say whites. Hispanics also have a less than liberal acceptance of homosexuality but have a smaller representation in the NFL.

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

Most of Sams coaches and teammates already knew he was gay. If he can play in the NFL, he will be accepted. I say not a big deal.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
It's pathetic that NFL exec's would think he wouldn't fit in the lockerroom.

It's pathetic that the NFL exec's are probably right. It might make some of his teammates uncomfortable in the lockerroom and/or showers, but, well, these overgrown behemoths might just have to fucking grow up a little.

All the best to Michael Sam.