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Local San Antonio radio talk show host, Joe Pags, posted this ignorant and/or stupid comment on his FaceBook page: "Let me be as direct as I can be. If there's nothing out of the ordinary for a person to be gay. If, in fact, acceptance and tolerance are the only allowable reactions -- then why exactly did ESPN lead with a mediocre football player being drafted? Why did they show him kissing his boyfriend after the call came in? Why did they focus on this man so much and not the other 200-some odd players dr afted? If this is not big deal and we are not supposed to see any difference whatsoever, why is ESPN and the rest of the media sensationalizing this story? You're a sports network. You are NOT TMZ or Entertainment tonight. Tell me why, as a sports viewer, I should care about this player being drafted and how he will or will not help his new team. Period." I decided to respond on my FaceBook page to his post and the ensuing thread it creat...

     Is the NFL ready for an openly gay football player?  That is the question tossed around by every news organization.   We ponder this question as if it is legitimate.  We pretend gay football players have not existed previously.  More than a couple of former NFL players have admitted they were gay as far back as the 1970's.  I am quite sure gay football players existed previously.  Yet we act as if it is something new.  The new part is the "openly."  From the reactions of some players I can surmise they believe "openly gay" means homosexual players will be playing on Sundays with their penises outside their football pants.  It seems to be common knowledge among some NFL'ers that the gay penis suffers from some sort of Butthole ADD and spends all it's time jumping randomly from one exposed butthole to another.        Not a single NFL player has expressed outrage at the members of his profession be...