NFL Coach Expresses Desire to Kill Millions of People. Suspended for a few games as punishment

[Coventina]

http://www.startribune.com/local/267734931.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y

The Vikings have suspended special teams coordinator Mike Priefer three games following their six-month investigation into accusations made by former punter Chris Kluwe that Priefer made anti-gay remarks in team meetings in the 2012 season.

Priefer, who apologized for his comments in a statement, must attend sensitivity training. If he meets that requirement, his suspension could be reduced to two games.

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In a January article on the website Deadspin.com, Kluwe said that Priefer remarked before a special teams meeting: “We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows.”

[Cha]

1. Hell.. that's more than just "anti-gay" remarks. That's sheer

malicious stupid ugliness that should send him packing to his own island for a indefinite time out.

[steve2470]

5. agreed ! Mahalo Cha ! nt

[Cha]

6. It's not "brain surgery" as

we say, steve.. It's Common Sense.

[steve2470]

8. exactly ! nt

[roguevalley]

30. men like that have no manhood to speak of in my opinion

[Separation]

2. He should loose his job.

Never understood professional sports and the politics involved.

[onecaliberal]

3. He should definitely lose his job.

Just because he's not an owner this crap can go on. And three games, BFD.

[Coventina]

4. Only two with "sensitivity training"

Lesson one: mass murder is bad.....

[onecaliberal]

7. WTF

Could the second lesson be...
Substitute the word Christian for gay in this instance. Can you imagine the funny heads exploding. They would have tarred and feathered his ass and took his job.

Unfrikinbelievable.

[Coventina]

9. Yup!

It is unfrikinbelievable.

*sigh*

The NFL is still a refuge for homophobes, apparently.

[onecaliberal]

26. It's just so completely sad to me

That people cannot seem to live their own lives and worry about themselves without thinking they need to shove their beliefs and ideology on others.
So many people in this country need to live and let live. Repuicans need to mind their own damn business.

[Takket]

10. I'll explain it to you...

1. If you are of use to the team, you get the "everyone makes mistakes and we are working through it" routine with "sensitivity training."

2. If you are of no use to the team, you get fired/released and the people who fired you make sure the public knows that they stand united with <whichever group of people have been insulted>.

[Separation]

12. Oh no, that part I understand. :)

It's how they can keep getting away this shit. Only thing I can think of is the almighty dollar rules all.

[xfundy]

11. Sounds like maybe he wants to

keep all the gay sex for himself.

There's always that element in anti-gay speech. As in, all the preachers and politicos who railed against it then got caught themselves.

[BlueStreak]

28. Exactly. People comfortable in their own sexuality just don't think this way.

My guess is he hangs around the shower after games a little too long for everybody's comfort.

[Jenoch]

13. I wonder what Kluwe's next move is.

[SwankyXomb]

24. I've been saying for two years: Politics.

Specifically, he should run for Bachmann's seat.

[Jenoch]

29. He likes California too much.

Plus he would not win in that district.

[edhopper]

14. Forget the nuke

Make the island Key West and it would be fabulous. As long as we make Priefer go along.

[Coventina]

15. You got a point there, judge!

His bigotry would create his own punishment.

Ha!

I like the way you think!

[dsc]

16. There is literally no other group of people about whom that could be said without a firing occuring

simply unbelievable.

[Coventina]

17. Yes! Thank you! Replace "the gays" with ANYTHING and he'd be UN.EM.PLOYED!

And, toxic. Nobody would hire him for DECADES, at least.

It's beyond frustrating, and shows how far we still have to go before all people are considered "people".

[dsc]

18. It isn't just that he said it

but then he goes on to deny he said it, claim his integrity was being maligned, only to finally sort of admit it when he got caught. Now he issues an apology give me an ever loving break.

[Coventina]

19. I know. Sickening.

[Skittles]

20. I don't understand people like this

don't they have any gay family members, haven't they ever known any gay people?

[Shrike47]

22. None who admitted it, maybe?

I had a friend in law school from a rural are who denied, if asked, that he was gay until several years after he graduated. I don't think he admitted it to himself.

Various persons polled in my state's rural areas state they have never met a gay person. Yes they have, but they don't realize it and 'hate them gays'.

[Coventina]

23. It is really hard to fathom, isn't it?

Certainly he's known gay people.
Whether he knew they were gay or not....that's another story.
Please, Skittles, can you go kick his ass?

[steve2470]

25. my guess is he's in a conservative bubble

My impression of LGBT people is, they steer clear of those bubbles, in general. Probably heard a lot of BS at his church, if he goes to church.

[dsc]

33. In the immediate wake of the comments

he claimed to have gay family members and stated that was a reason why he couldn't have said it.

[Johonny]

34. It is common NFL locker room talk, I think it is pretty easy to understand.

where people say completely over the top things that they think sound macho. They never consider what it might sound like in the outside world. The NFL is a place where anti-gay people like Tony Dungy are praised and brought in by teams to help with "sensitivity." The statement is the kind of thing you expect to hear in a high school locker room and sadly many in football never escape that mentality because well... they never had to before. All signs are the NFL is for the first time taking harassment seriously and statements not acceptable in any other workplace will no longer be tolerated in the NFL. All we can do is see what effect the policy has. I think it is clear why people utter these pseudo-macho things, it is a high adrenaline job where everyone lacks guaranteed contracts, your one losing season from losing your job, and false bravado is commonly thought to "build" character and everyone hides behind this false oneness with the team, a team that doesn't care about you at all, and the fact everyone is not as macho as they pretend to be is to be hidden at all costs. The overall fear in the NFL is they won't think your macho enough and thus you'll be out of work tomorrow. Perhaps a stronger union would help but...

[Coventina]

35. Very interesting. Thanks for posting this reply.

Are coaches such as this guy with the Vikings just as vulnerable in their position as the players are?

[Skittles]

37. thanks Johnny

that's a reasonable explanation

[Blue_Adept]

36. My father is like this

Pretty much any situation where there requires any sort of real communication or nuance, it's a matter of "just shoot 'em all" when it comes to things he doesn't like. Doesn't matter the context, etc, it all comes down to just simple violence upon others.

Sadly, he thinks he's being cute and funny when he says it.

[TRoN33]

21. I'm Viking fan and this coach should've been fired. If I was the owner, I'd fired him on spot!

[BillZBubb]

27. Wow, the Vikings showed that coach!

That slap on the wrist must really sting.

[freshwest]

31. Round up gays into a camp like the Santa Barbara guy wanted to do to all the women in the world?

This crap isn't funny! He should be fired. Sounds like torture having to listen to this lover of mass murder. Wonder what the special teams members have anything to say about this.

Guess people have forgotten WW2 and the Holocaust and that it didn't just end with those they didn't like. So they will have to learn the whole thing all over again, the hard way, huh.

[Coventina]

32. kick for day readers