Ex-Vikings punter: Coach made anti-gay remarks

Associated Press ^ | Jan 2, 2014 7:57 PM EST | Jon Krawczynski

[Rio]

Well, get over it. Normal people don’t like fags.

[nascarnation]

Leslie Frazier is a black guy, right?

So is there an “app” for calculating which minority prevails?

[Shelayne]

UGH. Would this guy go away already? Kluwe, you were released because you were no longer one of the best. You were mediocre. They would have kept you—and your big mouth—had you been better. Get over yourself.

He sounds like a vindictive schoolgirl.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

A mediocre, big-mouth attention-whore punter. I can’t imagine why teams aren’t lining up to have this guy in their locker room.

[Sacajaweau]

So what if he did...He's entitled to his opinion and his right to express it.

These fags act like it's the same thing as yelling fire in a theater. Go to heck. You are what you are.

[ThunderSleeps]

...Chris Kluwe says his special teams coordinator made anti-gay comments while Kluwe was with the Vikings...

So what? So what if he made anti-gay comments, so what if he made pro-gay comments. What, you got your precious little feelings hurt? Change the pad on your mangina and get out there and do your {expletive} job.

A whole heck of a lot of people - notably on one particular side of the gay/straight divide - need to grow up, put on their big boy or big girl or big whatever pants and just get over themselves. We have a lot of freedoms here, but freedom from being offended is not one of them. Kind of goes along with that free speech thing. Guess what? My free speech is going to offend you and/or someone else. Big deal. Your free speech and a lot of others offends me. I would never try to quite those voices! Don't try to quite mine, the special teams coach, or anyone else's for that matter.

[icwhatudo]

Vikings owner Zygi Wilf accused of supporting homosexual “marriage”?

He should come out now and deny such accusations.

[Belteshazzar]

“If there’s one thing I hope to achieve from sharing this story,” Kluwe wrote, “it’s to make sure that Mike Priefer never holds a coaching position again in the NFL, and ideally never coaches at any level.”

This quotation tells me all I want to know about Chris Kluwe, self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner … and valuable addition to any team.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Kluwe was previously known mostly for his campaign to get Ray Guy into the Hall of Fame (something Guy definitely deserves, btw). It always seemed like Kluwe's campaign was more about getting attention for Kluwe than for Ray Guy. Kluwe himself was a pretty ordinary punter and he's now in his early 30s.

Settling into post-NFL obscurity like most old players might not be as satisfying as generating a controversy which could conceivably keep him in the headlines indefinitely, but Kluwe has publicly called his Vikings head coach a coward and his special-teams coach a bigot, and Kluwe has further decreed that his special-teams coach should never have a job in the NFL again. Publicly attacking the reputations and livelihoods of people without a shred of evidence to back up his claims is worthy of GLAAD, but it's ugly, immature behavior which should not be rewarded by the NFL or by the media.

[wku man]

Yep...so what we have to do is stop letting their BS labels shut us up. If they call me a homophobe, I answer that I'm not -- I just hate faggots.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[opus86]

Seems to be a pattern here...

[ExCTCitizen]

OMG, the coach made antigay remarks. Then the coach be FIRED! (Yes, I know he was fired on Monday for having a poor team.)

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

It’s so gross and abhorrent.

Transsexuals are too. There isn’t normal at all.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

It’s so gross and abhorrent.

Transsexuals are too.

[jughandle]

Sorry but what football coach has NOT called players names when they don’t play or practice as expected? “Fag” and “pansy” were our hs football coaches most tame ones, the others cannot be listed here.