MLB, NBA, Sports/General

Of gay and other athletes

Posted by Robert Schlesinger on February 20, 2007 at 2:51 pm.

I don’t care about pro athletes’ personal lives.

I don’t care if DJ and A-Rod no longer have sleepovers or paint each others toe nails or whatever. (Dear god I don’t care about that story.)
I don’t care that John Amaechi is gay.

And while I guess I care that Tim Hardaway is a demented bigot, it’s because I don’t like bigots, not because he’s a pro athlete. (In that regard, I’ve hated him for years, dating to the days of my Knicks fandom.)

But I love Star Trek. So while I was happy to take a pass on the whole gay basketball player story until … I heard this. Then I started laughing. A lot.

7 Responses to “Of gay and other athletes”

  • 1
    Mike Friess Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    Now THAT is funny…BIG HAT funny.

    I was really happy to see George in a cameo as Hiro’s father on Heroes…really good stuff.

  • 2
    Scott Smith Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    That is awesome…

    “I LOVE SWEATY BASKETBALL PLAYERS.”

  • 3
    Scott Smith Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    Best use of YouTube ever.

  • 4
    Robert Vanasse Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    About the best retort to an idiotic bigoted comment that I can imagine.

  • 5
    The Borg Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Oh, c’mon, Scott. Admit that you’re mad that you weren’t the first one to say you were going to have sex with Tim Hardaway, when he least expects it. ;-)

  • 6
    Scott Smith Says:
    February 21st, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    The Borg is correct… :)

  • 7
    David Says:
    February 21st, 2007 at 8:53 pm

    I think the quotes from the different NBA players are almost as entertaining as the YouTube clip. These guys really make great role models…

    “As long as you don’t bring your gayness on me I’m fine,” Randolph Shavlik said. “As far as business-wise, I’m sure I could play with him. But I think it would create a little awkwardness in the locker room.”

    “For real? He’s gay for real?” said Philadelphia center Steven Hunter. “Nowadays it’s proven that people can live double lives. I watch a lot of TV, so I see a lot of sick perverted stuff about married men running around with gay guys and all types of foolishness… As long as he don’t make any advances toward me I’m fine with it,” he said. “As long as he came to play basketball like a man and conducted himself like a good person, I’d be fine with it.”