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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 543583" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p>Of course people don’t make the headlines for being straight because that’s not <em>news</em>. While there have been **** in the NFL - probably from its inception - Sam will be the first to be openly gay. Whether you like it or not that is news. Why do you suppose other gay players haven’t openly acknowledged that they’re gay? It is partially because of the judgments of people like you. (Look at Lombardi’s admonition on this subject quoted in the OP.) And those judgments in the past have led to the ostracism of, and violence acted out toward ****. I don’t think anyone believes it is courageous or inspirational to be gay. But IMO it is easy to understand why many would view the first gay person in any public endeavor to declare his ****** preference as courageous, precisely because he is voluntarily opening himself up for attack.</p><p></p><p>In an ideal world I agree there would be no reason for Sam to make this announcement. But we don’t live in an ideal world. As Darth Garfunkel mentioned, if Sam didn’t make this announcement, something like TMZ may have. Then he would have had to answer questions about whether or not he’s ashamed to be gay, etc. I think it was smart and fair of him to make this announcement. It was smart because he doesn’t have to hide his ****** preference, and it was fair because he put all NFL teams on notice long before the draft. He will no doubt be deluged with questions about it and that’s unfortunate. But as long as he doesn’t bring it up again – I hope he’ll quickly stop answering questions about it - and as long as he doesn’t use it as an excuse for anything I applaud him for being honest, even at the possible cost of his draft position and a significant amount of money.</p><p></p><p>BTW did I miss the news that Uganda has been awarded an NFL franchise? If not I can’t figure out how the above post is relevant, except as an extreme example of homophobia. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 543583, member: 4300"] Of course people don’t make the headlines for being straight because that’s not [I]news[/I]. While there have been **** in the NFL - probably from its inception - Sam will be the first to be openly gay. Whether you like it or not that is news. Why do you suppose other gay players haven’t openly acknowledged that they’re gay? It is partially because of the judgments of people like you. (Look at Lombardi’s admonition on this subject quoted in the OP.) And those judgments in the past have led to the ostracism of, and violence acted out toward ****. I don’t think anyone believes it is courageous or inspirational to be gay. But IMO it is easy to understand why many would view the first gay person in any public endeavor to declare his ****** preference as courageous, precisely because he is voluntarily opening himself up for attack. In an ideal world I agree there would be no reason for Sam to make this announcement. But we don’t live in an ideal world. As Darth Garfunkel mentioned, if Sam didn’t make this announcement, something like TMZ may have. Then he would have had to answer questions about whether or not he’s ashamed to be gay, etc. I think it was smart and fair of him to make this announcement. It was smart because he doesn’t have to hide his ****** preference, and it was fair because he put all NFL teams on notice long before the draft. He will no doubt be deluged with questions about it and that’s unfortunate. But as long as he doesn’t bring it up again – I hope he’ll quickly stop answering questions about it - and as long as he doesn’t use it as an excuse for anything I applaud him for being honest, even at the possible cost of his draft position and a significant amount of money. BTW did I miss the news that Uganda has been awarded an NFL franchise? If not I can’t figure out how the above post is relevant, except as an extreme example of homophobia. :D [/QUOTE]
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