Around The NFL - 2014

[smeags]

not sure why this even matters ??  what bigot watches the oprah channel to begin with ?

[ice grillin you]

not sure why this even matters ??  what bigot watches the oprah channel to begin with ?

the ones whose children watch espn and will be corrupted by them showing scenes from the show

[SD]

WWJRD?

Did Jackie Robinson make a spectacle of himself? Did he lick cake off his wife's face? No...he carried himself with class and proved all the haters he was the man and that his race shouldn't matter.

[ice grillin you]

lol....definitely trolling now

im out

[Rome]

Racism is every bit as awful and pervasive now as it was then.  Sam is gay and bigots hate gays more than blacks, so while it's nice to say he should just take it, I'm fairly certain that's exactly the wrong approach in 2014, SD.

[smeags]

i see zero issue with this kid. so what if he kissed his man at the draft, ate cake, ass grabbed, what ever. who cares ? gays have had the hetro lifestyle shoved down their throats (pun intended) forever. 

but wait, now he's gonna have a reality show ?? OMFG no way !! yes, this is THE reality show that finally goes too far.

what the farg ever.

[ice grillin you]

gays have had the hetro lifestyle shoved down their throats (pun intended) forever. 

heteros have had the hetero lifestyle shoved down their throats forever

im still not over brittny and k fed

[smeags]

 

[Sgt PSN]

WWJRD?

Did Jackie Robinson make a spectacle of himself? Did he lick cake off his wife's face? No...he carried himself with class and proved all the haters he was the man and that his race shouldn't matter.

I knew someone would go there. Jackie also lived in a totally different era that didn't involve 24 hr news, sports only networks, or twitter. 

Jackie also never made the decision to be open about his color like Sam did with his sexuality. Jackie never had to hide who he was. He was never a closeted black guy. Sam actually had to make the decision to come out and tell the world who he is. Jackie handled himself with class, but I bet if there was a tv camera in his living room at the moment the Dodgers decided to bring him to the bigs, the country would have seen a whole bunch of "coonery" during the nightly news.

[SD]

You're minimizing Jackie Robinson's disposition by saying he would act in a similar manner. How we carry ourselves as humans is what we should ultimately be judged on, not the color of our skin or our sexual preference. Saying "well Jackie would have acted like a typical coon too if there was 24/7 media around him" is ignorant. He conducted himself with class and chose to act like the bigger person. Sam has gotten more support than Robinson ever had. Robinson didn't just break the color barrier in baseball, he showed the rest of the world that blacks are no different than whites. Sam should be trying to set the same precedents for homosexuals. And no, I'm not saying we should all act like middle Americans.

[ice grillin you]

haha.....sarge got hooked hard....dont let him reel you in sergeant!!

[SD]

O'Reilly nails it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAWRMDgBbQ4

[BigEd76]

Miles Austin and Earl Bennett signed with Cleveland

[PhillyPhreak54]

Good point by Geo on the $$$. As a guy who is going to be paid a zesty signing bonus (or in his eyes none at all if he'd gone undrafted) he took the cash. Understandable and I'd have probably done the same thing.

It's only an issue if he allows it to be one. And I think he is determined to make the team and blend in as one of the guys to be the trailblazer he set out to be. Anyone who has that ultra competitive drive should be able to push aside the outside influences and make himself a player.

If he doesn't have that drive and the desire to prove the doubters wrong then he will fade away and his story will too. If he uses this as fuel to succeed then he will not only make the team but be a good player.

I wonder if the reality show will even factor into his success or failure because I doubt he can sign over the rights for him to be filmed on team property. If the team refuses then they have to shoot non football activities. So when he's at work he's all in and not having a camera in his or his teammates space.

[ice grillin you]

yeah this isn't like that nfl training camp show some entire franchise attention whores itself out for each year

or the nhl winter classic thing they do where everyone acts all flamboyant and loud and does goofy things cause they are being followed by cameras for six weeks...

i wish all these heteros would know their role and stay in their place