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stroups

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Mar 9, 2010 5:13 PM
I know I have posted this pic on another thread but it cracks me up

Mar 9, 2010 5:13pm
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dtdtim

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Mar 9, 2010 5:16 PM
If you can win games or be a productive member of the team then you're sexuality shouldn't matter.
Mar 9, 2010 5:16pm
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Fab1b

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Mar 9, 2010 5:17 PM
Could you imagine if a coach said pubicly he wouldn't embrace a gay athlete on the team?? The press would have a field day with that!!
Mar 9, 2010 5:17pm
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Nick Mangold

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Mar 9, 2010 5:18 PM
dtdtim wrote: If you can win games or be a productive member of the team then you're sexuality shouldn't matter.
Word.
Mar 9, 2010 5:18pm
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stroups

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Mar 9, 2010 5:19 PM
The coach isn't going to care, it's going to be the people on his team and the people he is playing against that will have a problem with it.
Mar 9, 2010 5:19pm
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Swamp Fox

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Mar 9, 2010 5:19 PM
I think Jim is right.
Mar 9, 2010 5:19pm
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september63

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Mar 9, 2010 5:22 PM
You are both correct. Tressel said what he had to, whether he believed it or not. I think he was being honest. The bigger question would still be, how would kids 18-22 handle having an opnly gay teammate?
Mar 9, 2010 5:22pm
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justincredible

Nick Mangold

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Mar 9, 2010 5:24 PM
stroups wrote: The coach isn't going to care, it's going to be the people on his team and the people he is playing against that will have a problem with it.
Which, IMO of course, is a damn shame.
Mar 9, 2010 5:24pm
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BigDog

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Mar 9, 2010 5:30 PM
Hell, I'd put Jeffery Dahmer on the field if he'd score touchdowns every game.


Win Baby Win.
Mar 9, 2010 5:30pm
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september63

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Mar 9, 2010 5:36 PM
Well, a rehabbed juvenile murderer getting a 2nd chance to go to college and play football would get more respect from teammates than an openly gay football player. IMO, very sad but true.
Mar 9, 2010 5:36pm
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darbypitcher22

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Mar 9, 2010 5:37 PM
Fab1b wrote: Could you imagine if a coach said pubicly he wouldn't embrace a gay athlete on the team?? The press would have a field day with that!!
They did. Renee Portland, former Women's Basketball Coach at Penn State said she had a no lesbians policy. This along with poor performance cost her her job
Mar 9, 2010 5:37pm
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Zoltan

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Mar 9, 2010 5:54 PM
september63 wrote: You are both correct. Tressel said what he had to, whether he believed it or not. I think he was being honest. The bigger question would still be, how would kids 18-22 handle having an opnly gay teammate?
I agree any coach would say that if backed into a corner, but JT granted the interview request without any pressure or obligation to do so.

I have to think an openly gay football player would be alienated by at least a few of his teamates, although probably not to his face. I could actually see the player getting abused by others teams fans so bad that the team he was on would rally around him.
Mar 9, 2010 5:54pm