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The Media's Absurd NFL Hysteria

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JOHN ELWAY: MY BELIEFS ALIGN WITH THE GOP

Today is the NFL's big day.  It's the Denver Broncos of the AFC versus the Seattle Seahawks of the NFC in the Super Bowl.  I don't have any interest in either team, frankly, but an article in Politico today may have decided which team I'll be rooting for tonight:

John Elway said on Sunday that he aligns himself with the GOP, but that he doesn't plan on running for office anytime soon.

The football Hall of Famer and executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos said on "Fox News Sunday" that though he sees himself as a Republican, he's in the "middle right."

"I don't believe in safety nets - obviously, we have to have some kind of safety nets - but I think my philosophy is when given the opportunity to go take advantage of that. I think that's when you get the best out of people," Elway said just ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl showdown between his Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks."So my beliefs align best with the GOP. I wouldn't say I'm way right. I'm middle right. "

If Congress acted more like a business and gave a little to get a little, Elway suggested it would get a lot more done.

"I've been fortunate enough to be in business. I’m one of those that believes you have to give a little to get some. and so I’d like to see us be able to free up Congress a little bit and say we need to give up a little bit to get a little bit," Elway said. "If we were able to do that and we acted more like businessmen in that situation, I believe we would get a lot more done."

A TALE OF TWO PRO ATHLETES

On Tuesday, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III sent out a tweet (the one in the photo above) that most people assume refers to the long-standing controversy that has flared up once again over the "Redskins" nickname.  RGIII's tweet received both admiring and abusive feedback.  This is nothing new for him.  After all, according to one former ESPN commentator, RGIII is a "cornball brother."
  

Jason Collins

Almost simultaneously, another pro athlete has made even bigger news by officially coming out of the closet and announcing to the world that he's a homosexual.  Naturally, liberals are demonstrating their loose grip on reality by proclaiming Jason Collins a hero and, as ludicrous as it may sound, even comparing him to Jackie Robinson.  Collins even got a call from Dear Leader himself.  Priorities...

I'd like to think that Jackie would have handled his business a little better than Collins.  A real "hero" would not, for instance, have lied to his girlfriend for years before dumping her with no good explanation.  According to Carolyn Moos, he only informed her of his true orientation this past weekend:

The woman who was once engaged to NBA star Jason Collins tells TMZ, she had NO CLUE he was gay at the time of their relationship ... in fact, she only found out last weekend...and she was floored.

Carolyn Moos (who played a few seasons in the WNBA) dated Collins for seven years and was engaged to him until they broke up in 2009...after Collins pulled the plug on their wedding.

Carolyn tells TMZ, she never once suspected he was gay, so the news is shocking. She says Collins eventually revealed everything last weekend -- just days before his big announcement -- and said that his homosexuality was the real reason he ended things with her.

At the time of their breakup, Carolyn says Jason gave a bunch of BS reasons for calling it quits ... and she could never understand what went wrong, until now.

Carolyn -- who's back on the hunt for Mr. Right -- tells us, "It's very emotional for me as a woman to have invested 8 years in my dream to have a husband, soul mate, and best friend in him. So this is all hard to understand."

She adds, "I care about [Jason] tremendously and only want the best for him. I want Jason to be happy for a lifetime and stay true to who he really is, inside and out."

A real man wouldn't shoplift the pootie.

Carolyn Moos

And the controversy didn't end there.  On Monday, ESPN commentator Chris Broussard appeared on that network's "Outside the Lines" show and had the audacity to talk openly about his views on the subject.  While the Left demands tolerance for Collins, they have no interest in being tolerant towards Broussard.

Broussard's opinion was verboten according to the left. Granderson's was not. The right was happy to air both opinions. Yet the left thinks that Broussard was way out of bounds. That’s because the goal of the left in overplaying the Jason Collins coming out party – a presidential call? Really? – is to portray those who disagree on homosexuality as bigots and homophobes who want to deny people like Collins happiness. Broussard never even remotely suggested that Collins should not have come out. He repeatedly stated that the time was ripe for Collins to come out. Virtually everyone on the right agrees with that general perspective. But Broussard violated the most taboo of all standards: he suggested that he had a different moral view than that of the left. And so now his job may be in jeopardy.

ESPN apologized but Broussard did not.

Today on OTL, as part of a larger, wide-ranging discussion on today's news, I offered my personal opinion as it relates to Christianity, a point of view that I have expressed publicly before. I realize that some people disagree with my opinion and I accept and respect that. As has been the case in the past, my beliefs have not and will not impact my ability to report on the NBA. I believe Jason Collins displayed bravery with his announcement today and I have no objection to him or anyone else playing in the NBA.

Good for him!

Bob Parks added some additional perspective yesterday:

Jason Collins has received almost all of the accolades one could from an adoring left. He's appeared on Good Morning America, will be on the cover of Time Magazine, and he even got a call from the President of the United States. All this for coming out of the closet as a professional basketball player, and not a great one at that.

I am a native Bostonian, thus, a Celtics fan. It appears Jason Collins barely played one season in Boston and that's probably why I've never heard of him. He wore the number "98" on his jersey in what he says was a tribute to Matthew Shepard, the gay man murdered, not because he was gay as many activists inaccurately contend, but because he was involved in a meth deal gone bad.

Robert Griffin III was, and still is, considered a superstar in the National Football League. For some reason, his honor (as recently as last December) has always been suspect.

Jason Collins is a mediocre basketball player, at best, and currently without a team. I can't imagine what franchise would wish to give him a valuable seat on its bench (because he definitely won't be a starter) and inherit the circus atmosphere he'll bring with him, which will have absolutely nothing to do with basketball.

Robert Griffin III is a pro-football superstar, a starting quarterback, who dared do the unthinkable: be black and anti-political correctness.

The liberal ideology demands we watch what we say and do, unless you accurately criticize those who watch what we all say and do, ESPECIALLY if you're a minority. Once that red line is crossed, you can be subject to all the insensitive insults the left claims to despise.