Will the Punter From Minnesota Yield? Not in This Debate

[choie]

MINNEAPOLIS — It was a Saturday night in early October and the temperature was below freezing. A half-hour before team curfew, Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and unlikely voice of the national same-sex marriage debate, was polishing off a family-size box of Gobstopper candy, reluctant to leave band practice.

Earlier, while driving to rehearsal at a wasp-infested warehouse in a dicey north Minneapolis neighborhood, Kluwe said, “Football is what I do for a living, but it’s not even remotely who I am.”

Despite the unseasonably frigid air, he was wearing a World of Warcraft baseball cap backward, a Nice Vibe T-shirt, low-slung jeans and sandals.


more at link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/sports/football/punter-chris-kluwes-voice-is-heard-in-same-sex-marriage-debate.html?hp

[riverwalker]

1. debate covered LIVE here

http://www.theuptake.org/

[Fresh_Start]

2. I checked out his blog.

worth the time

[underpants]

3. He reminds me of Pat Tillman

Tillman wrote in his diary that the Pfc Lynch operation sounded like a PR event. They sound like they had similar upbringings.

Where Men Win Glory
Jon Krakauer
excellent book