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Dolphins fine and suspend player for tweeting negative comment about Michael Sam
Yahoo ^ | 5-12-14 | By Frank Schwab

Posted on 05/12/2014 12:14:46 PM PDT by kingattax

When Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones tweeted "horrible" in regards to Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend on ESPN after being drafted by the St. Louis Rams on Saturday, it wasn't a moment the NFL, Sam, the Dolphins or anyone wanted.

But make no mistake, it allowed the NFL an opportunity to send a strong message: If you have public and negative comments about Sam and his sexuality, you will be punished and shamed.

Jones, a second-year strong safety who had 10 tackles in 16 games last year, tweeted "omg" right after ESPN showed Sam's reaction to being drafted. According to thephinsider.com, when asked on Twitter if he was referring to Sam kissing his boyfriend, Jones tweeted, "horrible."

The Dolphins and NFL aren't going to mess around with this type of thing. Jones was fined and suspended from all team activities until he completes educational training for his Twitter comments. The Dolphins didn't put this off. On a relatively quiet Sunday around the NFL, the Dolphins announced the punishment, put out a statement from coach Joe Philbin and an apology from Jones:

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: boycottdisney; celebrateperversity; culturewar; downourthroats; espnbias; gaybullies; homosexualagenda; inourfaces; michaelsam; nfl; pinkjournalism; pinklisted; unamericanactivities; waltsrotatingcorpse
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if anyone doesn't appreciate the NFL and the Miami Dolphins support of the queer gestapo, please let them know that players still have free speech rights in America.

NFL 212-450-2000

Dolphins 954-452-7000

1 posted on 05/12/2014 12:14:46 PM PDT by kingattax
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Ridiculous....I hope the air goes out of all their balls.


2 posted on 05/12/2014 12:16:08 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: kingattax

I don’t care for the NFL’s stance, but this has nothing to do with free speech.

The play is free to say what he wants.

His employer is free to hold the player accountable.


3 posted on 05/12/2014 12:16:52 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: kingattax

Will they sue people for not buying tickets?


4 posted on 05/12/2014 12:16:52 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: kingattax

Yet NO outrage when people were trashing Tim Tebow for his Christian beliefs..OK I understand it now, trash a Conservative Christian, fine and dandy..dare say ANYTHING negative about a fruitcake who was kissing his “Boyfriend” on TV (which thank God I did NOT see otherwise I would have hurled)..that person gets trashed in the media..free speech in America is NOT dead, as long as your trashing the ones the media despises


5 posted on 05/12/2014 12:16:53 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sacajaweau

It already has, metaphorically.


6 posted on 05/12/2014 12:17:21 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: Sacajaweau

You remember all the fun that was made of Tim Tebow? I don’t remember ONE outrcy.


7 posted on 05/12/2014 12:18:09 PM PDT by Hildy (Falling down is how you grow. Staying down is how you die.)
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To: kingattax

I’ve seen this movie before. Once the Bobbitt story broke, the p word was everywhere. Now explocit homo acts will be in our faces starting with espn and Drudge, ending with billboards, children’s cartoons and end cap placements at Target

The Amish may have a point.


8 posted on 05/12/2014 12:19:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: kingattax

May the NFL collapse.

I know that I will never watch a game with this fairy in it.


9 posted on 05/12/2014 12:19:18 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: kingattax

I think it’s the pinheads in the NFL front office who are suffering from concussions and not the players. The jerks at the NFL need to grow up. This is still America and we still have a Bill of Rights. The First Amendment was not suspended just because a moron from Kenya went through the evolutionary process and is now having a love affair with “the first openly gay” homosexuals.


10 posted on 05/12/2014 12:19:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Hildy

Yes, he has to go to Education Training before he can play football...Might be the one thing that kills the twitter phenomenon!.


11 posted on 05/12/2014 12:20:31 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: kingattax
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963:

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy.

12 posted on 05/12/2014 12:20:45 PM PDT by QT3.14
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THIS IS THE NEW McCARTHYISM

(with the perrverted meaning of the phrase)

“Are you now, or have you ever been a member of an anti-gay hate group?”

McCarthyism is used to mean an unfair persecution of communist memebers of Hollywood when it in reallity was the ACTUAL investigation of REAL communists.


13 posted on 05/12/2014 12:21:52 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: Sacajaweau

Soon they will be playing touch football!!


14 posted on 05/12/2014 12:22:14 PM PDT by ohiobushman ( If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?)
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I don’t care for the NFL’s stance, but this has nothing to do with free speech. The play is free to say what he wants. His employer is free to hold the player accountable.

Oh I'm sorry, was he using a Dolphin's computer and Internet connection while he was playing a game for them? This has everything to do with free speech.

15 posted on 05/12/2014 12:22:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Mr. K

It would never happen to a franchise player like a Tom Brady, for example.


16 posted on 05/12/2014 12:24:35 PM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: brownsfan

and we’re free to condemn the NFL for their hypocrisy.


17 posted on 05/12/2014 12:25:07 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kingattax

NSA is watching.


18 posted on 05/12/2014 12:25:25 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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I hope the NFL has a lot of luck selling tickets to the PC crowd. I'll never attend another game in person.

I'm now considering extending that ban to television viewing.

I'd say 'ef 'em, but they'd probably enjoy it.

19 posted on 05/12/2014 12:26:27 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Westbrook

Don’t watch any. It is uplifting.


20 posted on 05/12/2014 12:27:17 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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