Former NFL player, head coach and current television football analyst Tony Dungy has found himself in a bit of a pickle over comments that he made regarding St. Louis Rams rookie defensive lineman Michael Sam who is gay. Dungy, a man who wears his religion on his sleeve came under fire for his statement that were he still an NFL head coach that he would not have drafted Sam, a former University of Missouri All American who came out as being gay back in February prior to May's draft where he was taken in the seventh and last round by the Rams. Dungy, who rocketed to national fame as the coach who managed to do the unthinkable and turn around the perpetually putrid Tampa Bay Buccaneers into a winning team and who later won a Super Bowl with the Indianapolis Colts before ending up on network sports television slipped up like so many other pious bigots and let his true feelings get out.
In an story published in the Tampa Tribune - a town where Dungy is still treated like the coming of the messiah he was quoted as I excerpt:
"I wouldn't have taken him,'' said former Bucs and Colts
coach Tony Dungy, now an analyst for NBC. "Not because I don't believe Michael
Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of
it."It's not going to be totally smooth " things will happen.''
Despite being placed on a media created pedestal as though
he was some exalted moral authority Dungy must have been stunned at the
backlash to his ill-advised comments and immediately threw the Rapture bus into
reverse, leaving smoking rubber in his wake.
Dungy's "clarification" only further illustrates the
hypocrisy of the man, one which is rampant among the most vocal adherents of
the bastardized bible of chicken-fried, militarized American Christianity where
the it was the money changers who ran Jesus's long-haired hippie ass out of the
temple and stole his words for their blasphemous prosperity gospel. According
to an ESPN story what the canonized Dungy really meant was:
"I do not believe Michael's sexual orientation will be a distraction to his teammates or his organization. I do, however, believe that the media attention that comes with it will be a distraction."
Which is total horseshit because when the Tim Tebow traveling
salvation show was a hit a few years back with the "distraction" nearly tearing apart the Denver
Broncos to the point where the former Florida Gator and religious icon who some
- and I kid you not -were comparing to
the earthly resurrection of Christ, it was Dungy who was one of Tebow's
most steadfast advocates although the man couldn't accurately throw a football into
the ocean eight out of ten times if he was standing knee deep in the surf. So much
for the "distraction" hogwash, it was a brief moment when a charlatan
was revealed for all to see. This isn't the first time that Dungy has found
himself in trouble for anti-gay sentiments, in 2007 he endorsed a same-sex
marriage ban backed by one of those all too prevalent so-called Christian hate
groups called the Indiana Family Institute.
You know, the real Jesus hated hypocrites, probably as much as Dungy and his ilk hate gays although unlike the more honest members of the flock the former coach and television celebrity hides it very well. Jesus had not one word to say about homosexuality and for all that is known may have even been gay himself being that he only hung around with a pack of dudes and according the immutable word of God in the bible never consorted with a member of the opposite sex. The purveyors of the same snake oil that Jesus warned about - that of the pharisees and false-prophets are cunning in being able to cloak their savage, very un-Christlike hatred in the cloak of scripture that they have bastardized to reinforce their own narrow-minded intolerance.
Keith Olbermann may have been run out of MSNBC where he had
a good run of trashing hypocrites and liars during the Bush-Cheney years,
ceding the stage to Obama apologists like Rachel Maddow, but he roasted
the man that the media has spent years selling as being able to walk on water
as just another one of the liars and swine who have helped to piss on
everything that this once great country at one time - at least in theory -
stood for. Here is a small part of Olbermann's already classic skewering of Dungy:
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