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Cigar
02-13-2014, 08:19 AM
Texas Sports Anchor Delivers Jaw-Dropping Speech On Gay NFL Players
The Huffington Post | by Ryan Grenoble

Posted: 02/12/2014 3:40 pm EST Updated: 02/12/2014 3:59 pm EST


Sports broadcasts are typically known for their punchy lists of best plays, epic goal countdowns and testosterone-fueled commentary.

Which makes Dale Hansen's address Monday night all the more remarkable. The Dallas sports anchor for ABC local affiliate WFAA took a break from the standard script to address the issue of Michael Sam, a defensive lineman poised to become the first openly gay player in the NFL.

The approximately two-minute segment, titled "Hansen Unplugged: Celebrating Our Differences," opens with a joke about Sam's "shocking" circumstance -- that he's the "best defensive player in football's best conference," yet only a third to fifth-round NFL pick ("Really?!?") -- before adopting a more serious tone and addressing Sam's critics and haters alike.

In particular, Hansen focuses on athletes who are deeply destructive to the world and people around them, yet are still revered for their on-field performance:

You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by the roots? You're the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. You kill people while driving drunk? That guy's welcome. Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they're welcome. Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away? You lie to police, trying to cover up a murder? We're comfortable with that.


Hansen then drives home the hypocrisy: "You love another man? Well, now you've gone too far!"

"I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay; I don't understand his world," Hansen adds later. "But I do understand that he's part of mine."

The segment made waves on social media -- from the jocular ("BREAKING: Texas has sane people too") to the more sentimental ("Proof there is still hope for humanity").

WATCH Hansen's poignant segment, (at link).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/dale-hansen-michael-sam-gay-nfl-video_n_4775165.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1358652b=facebook

:applause:

Max Rockatansky
02-13-2014, 09:29 AM
Despite the irrational hatred of the far Left for Texas and the South in general, we have just as many good people as anyone else.

nic34
02-13-2014, 09:35 AM
Despite the irrational hatred of the far Left for Texas and the South in general, we have just as many good people as anyone else.

We don't hate you, we love you enough to want you to be better.... honest! :grin:

Cigar
02-13-2014, 09:45 AM
Despite the irrational hatred of the far Left for Texas and the South in general, we have just as many good people as anyone else.

Who Hates Texas? :grin:

It's Texan :laugh:

Max Rockatansky
02-13-2014, 09:47 AM
We don't hate you, we love you enough to want you to be better.... honest! :grin:

Pffffft! http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/022/6/f/cowboy_smiley_by_mirz123-d37sbxm.gif

zelmo1234
02-13-2014, 10:20 AM
Pffffft! http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/022/6/f/cowboy_smiley_by_mirz123-d37sbxm.gif

Better watch it! In the past liberals have loved people so much they found ways to justify murdering hundreds of millions of them!

Codename Section
02-13-2014, 10:26 AM
Who supports criminals? Did this stupid just imply that heterosexuals drag their girlfriends down stairs?

Seriously, liberal logic is stupid as fuck or dishonest. Yeh, I love white straight football players who beat their wives. What the fuck?

As a libertarian I am always +100 on tolerance but if gays are like everybody else which I assume they are until a geneticist tells me otherwise then they're not special and I don't need to care or know if they're gay.

I don't care if you can suck a dick harder than a Kardassian if you can get my team to the superbowl, but shut the fuck up about it. I don't need to know. How does it effect your playing? Do they have a better grip if they imagine the football's a giant dick? Seriously, why is this important?

Adelaide
02-17-2014, 02:12 PM
Who supports criminals? Did this stupid just imply that heterosexuals drag their girlfriends down stairs?

Seriously, liberal logic is stupid as fuck or dishonest. Yeh, I love white straight football players who beat their wives. What the fuck?

As a libertarian I am always +100 on tolerance but if gays are like everybody else which I assume they are until a geneticist tells me otherwise then they're not special and I don't need to care or know if they're gay.

I don't care if you can suck a dick harder than a Kardassian if you can get my team to the superbowl, but shut the fuck up about it. I don't need to know. How does it effect your playing? Do they have a better grip if they imagine the football's a giant dick? Seriously, why is this important?

There are a lot (like a crazy amount) of NFL players with history of crimes while playing. The point being made is that I guess this guy has no problem with that but does with gays? You're right - it doesn't effect their playing. Seriously, I was helping a guy with a fantasy draft and every other player I looked up has sexually harassed/assaulted someone, had a history of domestic assault, DUIs, so forth... I was pretty shocked.

Peter1469
02-17-2014, 02:36 PM
The NFL should do more about criminality with its players. Police officers and those with government security clearances cannot associate with known felons. If the NFL picked up that practice, it would help clean up the NFL.

Cigar
02-17-2014, 02:53 PM
The NFL should do more about criminality with its players. Police officers and those with government security clearances cannot associate with known felons. If the NFL picked up that practice, it would help clean up the NFL.

Exactly ... they have bigger fish to fry :wink:

Although they are from society ... just younger, richer and way more immature.

I wonder what I would be like with Millions at such a young age.

1751_Texan
03-15-2014, 10:52 AM
Local news personalities are not the sharpest. Used to be sportscasters used to read the box scores...now they have to "pimp" the sports.

Max Rockatansky
03-15-2014, 11:20 AM
Who Hates Texas? :grin:

It's Texan :laugh:The sportscaster is, you and other Texas-hating liberals are not.