The Truth: Homophobia in the NFL, and how speaking out against it can cost you your job...

Homophobia and the Realities of the National Football League

And, once again, we get another loud-mouth motherfucker who decides he would like to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives.

But it's another matter entirely as the National Homophobia-Football League has not only it's MVP do it, but that it probably exposes the true reason for the release (and eventual reassignment) of one of the best players in the league at his position.

Adrian Peterson opened up his trap on May 27th and said the following:

“To each his own. I’m not with it,” Peterson said in response to the question raised by hosts Bruce Murray and Amani Toomer. “But I have relatives that, you know, are gay. I’m not biased towards them. I still treat them the same. I love them. But again, I’m not with that. That’s not something I believe in. But to each his own.”

No you don't. You're a liar, Adrian. I'll come right out and say that to your face if you want to show it in front of me too.

There's no way that you could have all those statements made just in that paragraph be true. It's not the reality of having people in your life who are in the LGBTQ Community, and also not the reality of a National Football League which is, by far, the most homophobic of the major professional sports.

It's also not the reality of being the one person on your team that can get anybody fired or released, and anyone should know that, basically, Adrian Peterson is the head man of the Minnesota Vikings.

So let's take a look at this statement from the linked article:

Peterson has not been as vocal as former Vikings teammate Chris Kluwe who was very vocal and active on the issue of gay rights. When the punter was let go, there was speculation that the team felt Kluwe was too involved and less focused on the field. Peterson doesn’t feel Kluwe’s involvement in gay rights led to his release.

“I’m sure the Vikings’ organization did not release him based on that. They know Kluwe. They’ve been knowing him for a long time. They know he’s outspoken.”

Yeah, you'll say that in public.

The reality is different.

How do I know this, Adrian? How do I know that Chris Kluwe's gay rights stands all-but-surely terminated his career as a Minnesota Viking?

Let's take a look at the statistics of Chris Kluwe, courtesy of Pro Football Reference:

• Chris Kluwe is 8^th among active players in the NFL in the number of punts. We're not talking some Johnny-Come-Lately here.
  
• He is 63^rd all-time in the same statistic.
  
• Kluwe's 2012 punting average, yards per punt, was 45.0. That was, to be factual, 22^nd among NFL punters with 50 punts or more last year. He was a decent, average punter in the NFL last year.
  
• Didn't give up many yards per return...
  
• Nobody scored a punt-return TD on him in the regular season...
  
• When he was cut, the Oakland Raiders picked him up to replace no less than Shane Lechler, considered one of the best punters of recent years. As of today, he is slated to be the punter for the Oakland Raiders this season.
  

And yet he's cut.

Between the rape culture in this country and the absolute bully-pulpit that the National Football League has gained over the last how-many years, it is clear that the NFL purports a warped sense of manhood...

You going to tell the world that the likes of Greg Lougainis (if I have the spelling right after so many years) isn't a real man?

How about Eric Alva, who fought for your freedom in Iraq and lost a leg as a result?

Is this the kind of stand that is forcing what is believed to be at least four current NFL players further into the closet, for threat of their very own lives, Mr. Peterson?

And “[You're] not down with that...”.

Adrian, more and more, people are looking at the NFL as today's version of the Roman Collosseum. People have no problem, today, assigning the NFL a place above the life and death of everything around them – perhaps even of themselves!

Your opinions seem to indicate that you really want to live in that kind of environment.

Some of us don't.

Some of us would be killed in that environment.

Some of us “aren't down with” you, Adrian. But it's clear that this is yet another reason that you are one of the “chosen few” in the NFL these days.

There are gay people in the world, Adrian.

There are lesbians.

There are bisexuals.

There are trans-sexuals.

And the day has to come that the culture that has so permeated this country is going to have to accept that fact.

The Neanderthug Felon League (and football in general!) is the most homophobic of the major sports. It literally presents men only being real men when they overpower people violently (and to within an inch of their life), and the women are only there to be overpowered, and presented as effective harems.

And, Heaven forbid, you don't fit into The Game's little box on this.

This is 2013, Adrian. You might do well to join us.