What's in a name?

Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.

Petition Calls for NFL Running Back to Be Sacked After Gay Slurs

In today's NFL, there isn't much that seems to phase the fan base, unless it is name calling. Stomp another player in the head like Albert Haynesworth did in a game against Dallas in 2006 and the fans don't seem to care.

Get caught hosting dog fights and torturing dogs for sport like Michael Vick did and many fans don't seem to have a problem with that either. And apparently neither does the league, as they have allowed him to return to the NFL after serving his prison sentence.

Incidents and transgressions by NFL players over the past few years is quite lengthy and the more thuggish the behavior, the more the fans seem to support them.

Enter one Larry Johnson, a stand out running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. It seems that Larry has finally stumbled upon the single most unforgivable transgression that an NFL player could possibly commit. He has used slurs against homosexuals.

And from the looks of it, he may very well have experienced a self inflicted career ending injury that is non recoverable.

Comments

[Jvette]

The Hollywood elite defend Polanski, a self confessed pedophile who drugged a young girl and sodomized her. They even awarded him their highest honor.

But, Isaiah Washinton of Grey's Anatomy used a "gay slur" and pretty much ended his career. Has anyone seen him in anything since?

Just shaking my head.

[Matteo]

Odd...If there is nothing wrong with being a "Christopher Street boy", then why should using that label be a career ending move? I guess being homosexual is glorious and to be celebrated, but calling someone homosexual is the gravest of insults. It seems that using a label that is "synonymous with the city's gay-pride movement" brings shame to gays everywhere.

We live in a strange, strange world.

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

I’m slightly confused since the petition doesn’t mention the “gay slurs” just that they don’t like Johnson for various reasons.

Besides, how is anybody to know if the signers are even fans, much less season ticket holders as stated by the petition? I smell an organized attack by gays.

Lastly, this isn’t really a big deal unless the Chiefs actually do indeed take action, (they suspended him because of his remarks about the coach), based on these specific anti-gay statements.