12/22/24
September 27, 2002
Insert tight end joke here: New York Giants rookie phenom Jeremy Shockey is catching some grief for comments he made on the Howard Stern show about gay football players: "if I knew there was a gay guy on my college football team, I probably wouldn't, you know, stand for it."
You know... I really don't like anything Shockey said, and think the comments were stupid and homophobic.. BUT he's a young rookie on the Howard Stern show. Howard Stern isn't exactly Connie Chung, he steers conversations in certain directions. This, in my opinion, is just a young guy making a lot of dumb comments that we all hear a lot of ignorant people say. He's still no Randy Moss! :)
posted by elsoltano at 12:37 PM on September 27, 2002
I agree with what elsoltano says, however it is also my opinion that most professional athletes would agree with Shockey's remarks. Although my personal experience with pro athletes is somewhat limited, the most athletically gifted people I knew through high school and college all seemed to be macho and overly homophobic. Do team sports seem to breed this stereotype?
posted by pfuller at 01:30 PM on September 27, 2002
the most athletically gifted people I knew through high school and college all seemed to be macho and overly homophobic. Those were probably the gay players on the team. Seriously.
posted by grum@work at 02:29 PM on September 27, 2002
Those were probably the gay players on the team. Right. Because gross generalizations will solve the problem of gross generalizations.
posted by yerfatma at 04:07 PM on September 27, 2002
I wouldn't stand for it, surely he was just trying to be funny and when the other guy pursued it he found himself out of his depth.
posted by Fat Buddha at 05:26 PM on September 27, 2002
Maybe he better rethink the Steve Madden shoe contract lest he send the wrong signals.