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I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot
Deadspin ^ | Jan 2, 2014 | Chris Kluwe

Posted on 01/02/2014 12:13:32 PM PST by C19fan

Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I answered the question. My answer, verbatim, was always, "I honestly don't know, because I'm not in those meetings with the coaches and administrative people."

This is a true answer. I honestly don't know if my activism was the reason I got fired.

However, I'm pretty confident it was.

Allow myself to tell you a story about ... myself. The following is a record of what happened to me during my 2012 season with the Minnesota Vikings, written down immediately after the 2013 draft in April, when I realized what was happening, and revised recently only for clarity. I tried to keep things as objective as possible, and anything you see in quotes are words that I directly recall being said to me.

This is a story about how actions have consequences, no matter how just or moral you think your cause happens to be, and it's a story about the price people all too often pay for speaking out.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadspin.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: football; gay; homosexualagenda; minnesota; nfl; pansytrollsonboard; vikings
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Many of us who follow the NFL know this guy is a sanctimonious piece of work and this article provides another piece of evidence. The guy must be insufferable in the locker room. He even admits at the end of the piece the real football related reasons he was let go and never found another NFL job (emphasis mine):

,Whether it's my age, my minimum veteran salary, my habit of speaking my mind, or (most likely) a combination of all three, my time as a football player is done. Punters are always replaceable, at least in the minds of those in charge, and I realize that in advocating noisily for social change I only made it easier for them to justify not having me around. So it goes.

1 posted on 01/02/2014 12:13:32 PM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I’ve read the average career in the NFL is 3 years.


2 posted on 01/02/2014 12:15:16 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: C19fan
Allow myself to tell you a story about ... myself.

No thanks.

3 posted on 01/02/2014 12:15:56 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: C19fan

Bigot? Those who attack the Bible and Christianity are the bigots. We have a big problem in Houston when good becomes evil and evil becomes good.


4 posted on 01/02/2014 12:17:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: driftdiver

My buddy’s kid (tight end/H-back/spec teams) was on 7 pro rosters in 4 years.

If you’re a marginal player, you gotta be flexible, LOL.


5 posted on 01/02/2014 12:20:05 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: C19fan

I didn’t know Deadspin accepted columns written in bathhouses.


6 posted on 01/02/2014 12:20:05 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: C19fan

Cue the “Ha! Ha!” guy.


7 posted on 01/02/2014 12:21:07 PM PST by 867V309 (Obama- he's just crazy enough to do it.)
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To: C19fan

"Wondertwin powers...activate! Form of a retired NFL has been"

8 posted on 01/02/2014 12:22:21 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Punters are replaceable? Hell you say. Not even Ray Guy is in the Hall of Fame.....yet......


9 posted on 01/02/2014 12:25:24 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: C19fan

What a hero.

10 posted on 01/02/2014 12:25:56 PM PST by Third Person (The light pours out of me.)
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To: massgopguy

If they gave Ray Guy a bust in Canton it would float to the ceiling. :)


11 posted on 01/02/2014 12:26:43 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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it's a story about the price people all too often pay for speaking out

We all saw what happened when Phil Robertson spoke out.

12 posted on 01/02/2014 12:27:33 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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Me thinks The boy was a pigskin fluffer.


13 posted on 01/02/2014 12:28:13 PM PST by Autonomous User (Pain Fades. Chicks Dig Scars. Glory, lasts forever.)
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I didn’t know Deadspin accepted columns written in bathhouses.

That's where all that gawker media horseshit is written.

14 posted on 01/02/2014 12:28:56 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: icwhatudo

What is the purpose of the ‘L’ in PFLAG’s name, seems to make more sense without it.

What does straight OR equality mean?


15 posted on 01/02/2014 12:29:28 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: C19fan

Punters don’t really play football.


16 posted on 01/02/2014 12:30:02 PM PST by reagandemocrat
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So the guy was in his prime, but due to his ‘activism’, he got fired (*released)?

Yet another person won’t face reality and trying to find more relevancy. But NOW he’s going to enjoy his 15 min of fame. Be a leftie “hero” as his second career.


17 posted on 01/02/2014 12:32:09 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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He was warned. Yes, you can speak up about causes, but on a topic as sensitive as this one, why risk your career? Why make your team a magnet for political criticism? I think he enjoyed the attention, which is not so horrible, but this was done to the point of taking focus off the team efforts. Be an activist on your own time. He made things much worse by ridiculing of slamming anyone who disagreed with him. That is the way you make enemies who don’t forget.


18 posted on 01/02/2014 12:33:00 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Third Person

One of the columns in that magazine is, “Tel Aviv, our big gay adventure” should end with Leviticus 20:13 being applied.


19 posted on 01/02/2014 12:33:08 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: nascarnation
I guess if you're kluwe you do indeed have to be "flexible"...ahemm....in certain situations anyway....

but moving on, this guy is creep and a backstabber and a crybaby to boot.....glad he's gone and hopefully now he can move on to his full time career of being a gay guy......

20 posted on 01/02/2014 12:33:34 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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