"Yeah, Moe, that team sure sucked last night. They just plain sucked. I've seen teams suck before but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks who ever sucked."
Posted on 12/27/2013 10:13:58 AM PST by Oliviaforever
The topic of whether a gay player would be accepted in a NFL locker room is probably overblown. Players like teammates who can help them win. The rest is trivial.
This is shown by the 1993 Houston Oilers. The Houston Chronicle ran a tremendous oral history on that wild season and team (it's excellent, check it out, as was the NFL Network's "A Football Life" episode on the '93 Oilers), and in it there's a revelation that the Oilers had at least two gay players.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
Bingo! Who gives a $#*+?
“Lemme guess ... One of them was a tight end and the other was a wide receiver. :-P”
The 1993 Oilers did not have a Tight End on their roster.
Only 2? Was it the straightest team in the NFL?
Wasn’t it in the late 60s that they used to say that there were 4 gay starting quarterbacks in the NFL? A couple were easy, and the third wasn’t that difficult to figure out, but I never did find out who the 4th was.
"Yeah, Moe, that team sure sucked last night. They just plain sucked. I've seen teams suck before but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks who ever sucked."
So which of those guys is now so far behind on child support payments he’ll be willing to “out” his teammates to a tabloid?
One player committed suicide after a car accident that year. The rumor was his “friend” from school was engaged in a certain act when the accident happened, and a certain part of the player’s body was amputated and his friend thrown from a fifty-foot overpass.
Well, it wasn’t Warren Moon. He was a regular in all the strip clubs around town. DEFINITELY preferred the Ladies.
I think we can rule out Mike Munchak too.
My money would be on Ernest Givens..
And, maybe Spencer Tillman. He was from Oklahoma, and EVERYONE in Texas knows, OU SUCKS!
What you said.
Seriously ... good point. That was one of the criticisms of the "Run & Shoot" offense at the time. Without tight ends they couldn't execute well in short-yardage situations, and they couldn't run a ball-control offense. That's one big reason why they lost to Buffalo in the 1992 playoffs even though they had a 35-3 lead late in the game.
Yep. First thing I thought of when I saw headline/year. Was all the buzz at Christmas parties (in Houston area), that year.
As long as the two weren’t shrieking about homophobia, demanding to be celebrated for their sexual orientation, treated as special snowflakes, or be given parades, their teammates probably didn’t care much.
the Oilers are now the Tennessee Titans...
I found this....
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And...I know this is morbid...but my parents owned Funeral Homes in Houston...and I picked up Jeff Alm’s body (and his friend) at the crash scene, and took them to the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office on Old Spanish Trail. It was horrid!
I mean, the innuendo regarding the sexual proclivity of Alm & Lynch, I don’t think was ever in question. That they were homosexuals - that is probably true. But there was no hanky-panky going on in when the accident happened. That, I’m sure of. Those dudes were drunk.
Upon Alm’s death - and because he was a big, burely football man - coupled with questions about why he would kill himself over another man, is what sensationalists feed off of, in the media and/or the public sector. Everyone loves a good trainwreck. In the case of Alm, it took very little effort to get the rumor mill started. Obvious, really.
And what do they say, like a conservative estimate that at least 10% of American males are gay or bisexual? It baffles the mind that one could extrapolate, in turn, that around 10% of football players could be gay, as well. I can’t quite wrap my mind around that - it seems to be a contradiction of terms - but I guess it’s probably true too.
No, I’ve been out of the business since 1998. I’m a much better person for it. It was a freakin’ depressing job.
http://boards.houstontexans.com/showthread.php?t=15778
“the Oilers are now the Tennessee Titans...”
Apparently, all those rumors about the Oilers were true and they were run out of Houston and had to go to Tennessee.
Did you really have to use that particular phrasing? ;)
I remember that team. What a train wreck. That was the year Buddy Ryan punched out Kevin Gilbride.
Good for them, very few people have the skill set to perform at that level. And they had the good grace to not share it with the whole world.
Somebody please come up with gay friendly lyrics for the Houston Oilers fight song.
“Houston has the Oilers, the gayest football team,
“We’re in flamboyant swishing, like no one’s ever seen,
Take it from there. Downhill all the way.
I just read the NY Slimes article on the incident, and it said nothing about the guy who committed suicide having ANY injury other than the gunshot wound.
Gee, the media wouldn’t COVER UP THE TRUTH, would they???
I wonder if autopsy reports are available from back then.
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