“A star QB that is a winner needs to come out to make it go as smooth as possible. And, I root for Michael Vick every Sunday, and he is pond scum, so I will obviously root for a gay player, who is likely nothing of the sort.”

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Sure would be sweet, if any “star QB” was to come out, that it would be Vick!

I fear the public, as demonstrated in the comments here, is a bit behind… and that makes me sad.

- Jerry Sandusky

listenup823 says:
Jun 6, 2012 2:02 PM
It’s a sin… Plain and simple.. We all have sinned many times in our lives.. Not bashing just sayin..

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Plain and simple?

As if talking about sexuality isnt enough of a joke on an NFL based site, you go and bring your pathetic BELIEFS into it?

I could steal today, go to confession tomorrow, and all is right in the world if I say 3 hail mary’s?

GET REAL.

duece5 says:

By that IGNORANT comment, you know NOTHING about the Catholic’s sacrament of penance, nohopeleft.

You can pray 1 or 100 Hail Mary’s. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t TRULY sorry for your actions.

Come to bat with an intelligent argument without bashing, IGNORANTLY, the Catholic sacrament.

YOU need to get real!

There, done.

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It’s only a sin if you’ve been brainwashed into thinking so. Sin is a term created by religions to control people.

Give your alms if you will, but do it quietly for the sake of the rest of us who aren’t sheep.

He lives with his boyfriend and brings him to functions, but stays in the closet.

i have friends who are gay who have tried out for pro sports teams, and from what i’ve been told, there are many heterosexual guys in the locker rooms who actually know that all this is goes on…. they just don’t talk about it, and really just don’t care one way or another. it just isn’t talked about. or cared about. at that level, most players are too wrapped up in themselves or their own performance anyway

so i dont think that an individual coming out on a major sports team would have a huge effect in the locker room, particularly in a sport like football with so many individuals in the locker room. anyway, from my own experience, i’ve realized that the team as a whole generally follows the opinions of the leaders on the team… once it is established as a team (by a few of the people that are looked up to) that something is no big deal, it’s no big deal. just another thing. but nobody wants to be the gay guy on the team. i don’t think it’s a big deal to the majority of the people in the world, or majority of the athletes on a team… but it IS a huge deal to the individual who is coming out. nobody wants to be “that guy.”

i’m gay, played rugby at a high level in college, and was outed… figured it would be the end of the world. my team could have cared less. didn’t change a thing. if anything, created more of a bond and stronger friendships. but in retrospect, until it happened, that was not the outcome i expected.

For those who say what heterosexual players have come openly proclaimed they are straight, obviously most of them. They don’t need a press conference, they just get married, talk about who they are dating, be seen in public kissing or holding hands. Sometimes they are commented on by the media, sometimes not. Obviously the media comments don’t include the word “straight” or “heterosexual.” Think the same courtesy would be extended to Aaron Rogers walking through downtown Green Bay holding hands with a guy?

“That “10 %” figure is made up.”

That figure is not ‘made up’ it is based on the Kinsey interviews. Google it.

“So, bottom line it’s probably more accurate (in the world of super machismo athletes in the NFL) to guess that WAY less than 1% would every come “out” as gay.”

Because super machismo athletes are less likely to be gay? Ever been to gym?

If an athlete, or anyone for that matter, publicly announced they are gay my reaction would be the same…..BFD!

For us as a culture it’s OK that players run people over drunk with their car, or that they are alcoholics and or drug addicts, or that they’re wife beaters, or serial philanders, .. OR Michael Vick, who only killed dogs for sport and profit, .. but we need to debate the impact of gay players? Gay is a reality acting like it’s a choice or that it has a pejorative connotation or that it needs to be “stopped” is delusional.

Really who cares? If you don’t believe in a gay life style then date and marry people of the opposite sex and mind your own business. If a guy can play I’ve no interest in his sexual orientation.

I’m just sayin……”

You cannot be serious, even if you purport to be. While we’re discussing “if”s that don’t exist, if everyone were OJ Simpson, how would prisons hold all of us?

Get the picture?

But it’s all about societal stigma. And the person who brought up that sinning crap can go to hell.

If you want to get biblical make sure you mention that all sexual immorality is a sin. Basically any action or thought that isn’t about producing babies. That would pretty much include everybody. Everybody is a sinner for life no matter what you try to do to minimise it and lead a good life. I get really frustrated with Christians who single out gay people as sinners when the whole point of Christianity is about personal choice. To quote Jesus “you worry about the splinter in somebody else’s eye while not noticing the plank in your own”.