Either Kluwe Or Priefer Is A Liar

Among the distressing things to come out of Chris Kluwe’s blistering attack on three of his former bosses is this: Somebody is a liar.

Kluwe wrote a scathing piece Thursday for Deadspin.com in which he called Vikings general manager Rick Spielman and former head coach Leslie Frazier “cowards” and skewered special teams coordinator Mike Priefer, describing him as “a bigot.”

Kluwe is convinced he lost his punting job with the Vikings because he was outspoken in his support of gay marriage, and his vitriol toward Spielman, Frazier and Priefer come from that.

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

Ex-Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe claims he was sacked for speaking out in favor of same-sex marriage and bullied by coach who told him he would ‘burn in hell with the gays’

Kluwe, who was cut from the Vikings in May, says he believes it was because he was an advocate for gay marriage
He claims coach Mike Priefer told him ‘we should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows’

He also accuses ex-head coach Leslie Frazier and general manager Rick Spielman of being cowards for failing to stand-up to Priefer
Frazier was sacked this week and with Priefer a contender to replace him, Kluwe doesn’t think he should coach ‘at any level’

Kluwe doesn’t currently have a team and admits his revelations effectively mean his NFL career is over
In 2007 he had signed an $8.3-million contract extension through 2013 with the Vikings

By DAVID MCCORMACK
PUBLISHED: 16:12 EST, 2 January 2014 | UPDATED: 17:50 EST, 2 January 2014

Don't mean to pick on you, but I'm sick and tired of reading that Franken somehow stole the election from Coleman. Not at all what happened. Coleman lost the election in 2 ways - (1) ineligible voters who voted; and (2) Minnesota Supreme decision, which ultimately allowed Coleman's legal team to get outmaneuvered by Franken's.

First is self-explanatory. The second, the Court rules that for the contested ballots, instead of having them formally reviewed, as the statute explicitly requires, they said that Coleman and Franken could review said ballots, and if they agreed they could be counted, they would. Franken's team knew which counties/districts were heavy for them, so they pushed for ballots from these areas to be counted. Coleman's team inexplicably had no clue where their voters are (inside baseball - they didn't see the value in building a good enough database). Consequently when there were disputed ballots in Coleman-leaning areas, Franken's people smartly objected.

Coleman's legal team were idiots and never should have agreed to do this. That's what cost Coleman the election during the recount.

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