San Francisco 49ers player Chris Culliver is already running away from hisimbecilic homophobic comments. Under pressure from his team and coaching staff, he issued an apology. One thing that struck me about his idiotic remarks was how he pretended that *he* had the power to ban gays from the Niners locker room. Who died and made you coach, asshole? Here’s how the story played out at theSan Francisco Chronicle’s web site, SF Gate.com:
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has, in the past, said that gay players
would be welcome on his team, but a clip aired on the Artie Lange show
on Tuesday night seemed to indicate that cornerback Chris Culliver
doesn’t agree.When asked by shock jock Lange at Super Bowl media day if there were
any gay players on the team, Culliver answered, “No, we don’t got no gay
people on the team, they gotta get up out of here if they do.“Can’t be with that sweet stuff. Nah … can’t be … in the locker room man. Nah.”
Asked in November how he would react to coaching an openly gay
player, Harbaugh said, “I have no discrimination in my heart. I ask all
players to play through their own personality and be who they are. What
you ask of a player is to be a great team player and be a good player.
My expectations (of a gay player) would be the same.”Here is a statement from the 49ers about Culliver’s comments:
“The San Francisco 49ers reject the comments that were
made yesterday, and have addressed the matter with Chris. There is no
place for discrimination within our organization at any level. We have
and always will proudly support the LGBT community.”And here is a statement released Wednesday afternoon by Culliver:
“The derogatory comments I made yesterday were a
reflection of thoughts in my head, but they are not how I feel. It has
taken me seeing them in print to realize that they are hurtful and ugly.
Those discriminating feelings are truly not in my heart. Further, I
apologize to those who I have hurt and offended, and I pledge to learn
and grow from this experience.”
I did not know that about Jim Harbaugh but good on him. He *does* coach in the unofficial capitol of gay America, after all. It’s just a pity that he has a Lilliputian like Culliver on his team.
“The derogatory comments I made yesterday were a reflection of thoughts in my head, but they are not how I feel.”
Someone needs to tell the 19-year-old college intern tasked with phrasing Culliver’s fake apology that this makes no sense whatsoever.
They shoulda asked Swift. Oh wait, he’s dead. Never mind.
Kevin, I half suspect the person that wrote the apology for Culliver did it in just such a way as to make it very clear that it wasn’t coming from Culliver at all. Seriously, the “apology” could not be more different from Culliver’s usual speech unless it was written in Mandarin. Some gay lackey perhaps! lol
@Kevin – wow! So he thinks he’s a philosopher positing thoughts that aren’t his position? And he does it as part of a newspaper interview?