Gays in the NFL. How Do You Really Feel?

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Shoot, in football one guy (the QB) sticks his hands on the underparts of another dude (the C) awaiting the snap of the ball.

Now I know what inspired the Dallas Shotgun, Staubach was gay and the center said he aint putting his hands down there!

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Shoot, in football one guy (the QB) sticks his hands on the underparts of another dude (the C) awaiting the snap of the ball.

I played center in high school, I mostly blacked it all out.

[Alvin Walton]

I think I'm going to have a parade and a rally and a coming out announcement every time I doink my wife.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

I think I'm going to have a parade and a rally and a coming out announcement every time I doink my wife.

So your going to have a parade sometime in 2014?

[Alvin Walton]

So if there were lesbians in the locker room would they just get bored and leave?

[SirLK26]

I don't care either way. But gay players will have to expect some discrimination.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by SirLK26

I don't care either way. But gay players will have to expect some discrimination.

Here's the way I see it. The locker room is not a place for PC, and us testosterone filled guys together tend to not be the most sensitive collection of people. So, if a gay guy is OK with dealing with that fact, then I see no problem. Once I think he starts complaining about it, I think it upsets the locker room.

[REDSKINS4ever]

I feel it's no one else place to tell anyone how to live their lives. People can be who they want to be and no one, I mean no one, has a right to tell them they can't. Those who are against homosexuality can disapprove of that lifestyle all they want, but it's senseless and pointless to disapprove because at the end of the day they really are powerless to change it. If someone is gay, lesbian, transgender, likes transsexuals or whatever, why get upset about it? You have to live your own life and they have to live their own life. As human beings, we have to learn to respect people.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by REDSKINS4ever

I feel it's no one else place to tell anyone how to live their lives. People can be who they want to be and no one, I mean no one, has a right to tell them they can't. Those who are against homosexuality can disapprove of that lifestyle all they want, but it's senseless and pointless to disapprove because at the end of the day they really are powerless to change it. If someone is gay, lesbian, transgender, likes transsexuals or whatever, why get upset about it? You have to live your own life and they have to live their own life. As human beings, we have to learn to respect people.

I think this is a great post, although i do think you need to allow for the possibility that someone can disapprove of something, but not feel the need to try to impose his/her opinion on others.

There are things people do that i disapprove of. I'm sure there are things that I do that others disapprove of. But i'm not going to go and tell someone they dont have the right to do something, and i'd expect them to show me the same courtesy.

[Monkeydad]

It's their own choice. Choices have consequences. If they just show up to work and don't advertise to get attention for being gay, it won't cause any problems with the team. If they can't keep it on the back burner, they're just asking for issues both in the locker room and on the employment front, not because they're gay specifically, but because they can cause distractions. A lot of teams try to avoid players with personality problems or legal issues because of the affect it could have on the team. Mike Vick is a prime example. Some teams do not want a media circus and a controversial issue splitting the team in half. This is no different.

And before someone decides to accuse me of something I'm NOT saying...I am not equating homosexuality to crime, but the media's attention if a player were to "come out would have absolutely no benefit on the team and would probably have negative effects on the player's career.

I'm sure there are a few gay players, but if they want to just play football without it being an issue or causing them problems, they keep it to themselves. It's the same scenario with gays in the military. In the end, the men will stick together and not care about it when in the heat of battle, but at other times, it can make some men uncomfortable and that slight lapse in focus could be dealy in in war, or in football could just hurt the team.

[donofriose]

Parks 'n Rec is a great show. Also this thread has completely gone off topic from the NFL

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by donofriose

Parks 'n Rec is a great show. Also this thread has completely gone off topic from the NFL

Yep, I think it has petered out.

[Meks]

who cares? if your a homophobe... keep it to yourself.

[FRPLG]

I actually think what I'll graciously call "counter-arguments" in this thread have been addressed enough. Time for this baby to die a thread death.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I actually think what I'll graciously call "counter-arguments" in this thread have been addressed enough. Time for this baby to die a thread death.

I don't think the point of thread, at least in my mind, was about pros and cons, or any particular argument, but just to get it out in the open. Just a discussion for people to say how they "feel".