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 ...
,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.
I’ve read the average career in the NFL is 3 years.
No thanks.
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.
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.
I didn’t know Deadspin accepted columns written in bathhouses.
Cue the “Ha! Ha!” guy.
"Wondertwin powers...activate! Form of a retired NFL has been"
Punters are replaceable? Hell you say. Not even Ray Guy is in the Hall of Fame.....yet......
What a hero.
If they gave Ray Guy a bust in Canton it would float to the ceiling. :)
We all saw what happened when Phil Robertson spoke out.
Me thinks The boy was a pigskin fluffer.
That's where all that gawker media horseshit is written.
What is the purpose of the ‘L’ in PFLAG’s name, seems to make more sense without it.
What does straight OR equality mean?
Punters don’t really play football.
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.
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.
One of the columns in that magazine is, “Tel Aviv, our big gay adventure” should end with Leviticus 20:13 being applied.
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......
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