It seems as though Wade Phillips (son of my all-time favorite NFL coach, Bum) will be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Reports suggest that Phillips may have gained the nod over Chicago defensive coordinator Ron Rivera because of Phillips’ comfort level with the 3-4, the scheme the Cowboy defense transitioned to under Bill Parcells. Phillips had most recently served as the Chargers defensive coordinator, helping the Bolts to a league-best 14-2 record. The Chargers one-and-out in the playoffs had to feel familiar to Phillips, who sports an O-3 career playoff mark. The most notable of those losses? Phillips had the misfortune of being on the wrong end of the Music City Miracle against the Titans in January of 2000. With Phillips on the verge of taking over in Big D, the next big question in Dallas is whether or not Jerry Jones provides Phillips with a sizeable headache named Terrell Owens. Stay tuned…
Former NBA player (and former Penn State star) John Amaechi has revealed that he’s gay…and I am completely shocked. Not. Amaechi, whose well-traveled career included a stop in Orlando (where I believe he was Darth Reagan’s favorite player), was always known as a very cultured (he was born in America but raised in England) and intelligent fellow…but that isn’t why I wasn’t shocked to hear he was gay. The reason I wasn’t shocked was because there are several hundred players in the league at a time…based on what we know about society today, some of them are bound to be gay. And who cares?
There is always going to be some outcry over whether or not there are gays in the shower, and there’s always going to be column space given to analyzing the issue (and that’s analyzing boys…not ANAL-yzing). ESPN.com’s resident homosexual, LZ Granderson, decried the fact that Amaechi waited until after he was retired to come out, pleading for some young star to be upfront about his sexuality while he was actually still playing. I’ve dealt with LZ’s gung-ho gay writing before, but this time I’ll give him a pass. He has an agenda, and he’s entitled to his opinion…and here’s mine…
While I don’t agree with that particular lifestyle choice, if a player is gay, let them be gay. But let’s quickly get to a place where they can keep their sexuality where I keep mine…behind closed doors. Because that’s what this is. It’s about sexuality. If a power forward wants to have a boyfriend, that’s up to him. But I don’t want details. I said this the first time I dealt with a Granderson column. I don’t want to know if your sexual turn-on’s include girls, guys, farm animals, flashlights, or hot wax. I don’t want to know. Ever. Gay, straight, bisexual, camel-sexual…whatever…keep it to yourself. I can at least guess at the pressures a closeted athlete lives with, and I would feel sorry for any of them. But how they choose to proceed is up to each of them. I just hope that we reach a point and time where the only thing we worry about a player sticking is a fifteen-footer….
Chief,
Look, I know some people who have danced around in gay clubs with perfectly white K Swiss’ on…..but that doesn’t necessarily make them gay! Happy for sure, but not gay? Right?
Darth
I too know that there are going to be some gay people in jsut about any randomly selected large groups of people, such as the NBA. I
I heard someone discussing this news on the radio and one person said that whether or not a person could play basketballl was the important thing not whether they liked boys or girls, and I agree,
However I would like to be the next one that had free run in every female locker room. What I am trying to say here is, if it is alright for a woman to be uncomfortable with a strange man looking at her in her under clothes and even naked, then why is it wrong for a man to be uncomfortable with it. And that is the straight of it.
Chief,
Could the star be lined up in such a way that the Daily Verdict has us talking about a gay guy, a man named Bum and yesterday we talked about checking our manhood by reaching down our pants? This could not have been planned it is all too bizarre. Where will the daily verdict go next?
The only reason the guy came out of the closet is that he had a bad NBA career, he need cash. So what does he do he use his best asset, “being gay in the NBA” (sounds like a Village People’s song to me) Writes a books and then tells everybody. Do ya think it’s for the cash?