[Deadspin] Chris Kluwe believes he was fired due to his politics

SC1211 · Jan 2, 2014

Really fantastically written account from Kluwe about his outspoken support for gay marriage and the internal politics of it all. Please feel free to move it to the D&D if this gets out of hand. Between this and Incognito, NFL locker rooms sound like miserable places.

http://deadspin.com/i-was-an-nfl-player-until-i-was-fired-by-two-cowards-an-1493208214

Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I answered the question. My answer, verbatim, was always, "I honestly don't know, because I'm not in those meetings with the coaches and administrative people."

This is a true answer. I honestly don't know if my activism was the reason I got fired.

However, I'm pretty confident it was.

Allow myself to tell you a story about ... myself. The following is a record of what happened to me during my 2012 season with the Minnesota Vikings, written down immediately after the 2013 draft in April, when I realized what was happening, and revised recently only for clarity. I tried to keep things as objective as possible, and anything you see in quotes are words that I directly recall being said to me.

This is a story about how actions have consequences, no matter how just or moral you think your cause happens to be, and it's a story about the price people all too often pay for speaking out.
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Ziggy · Jan 2, 2014

I don't know, but he's definitely only relevant because of his politics which might have had something to do with it. I cant not read that statement without hearing Kluwe's "I just got done with a doobie" voice reading it to me.

Dairy Ashford · Jan 2, 2014

Taglibue's son was gay and he donated heavily to gay rights. If this guy didn't have the one job in all of sports that could literally be automated, I might be a little more accepting of his claims. Cuts just happen: coaches can be petty with that kind of power and maybe just a month or so to make those decisions; but if their best players or the unit as a whole is homophobic, he'll probably accommodate that just to avoid distractions.

mikennite · Jan 2, 2014

As we sat down in our chairs, Mike Priefer, in one of the meanest voices I can ever recall hearing, said:"We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows." The room grew intensely quiet, and none of the players said a word for the rest of the meeting. The atmosphere was decidedly tense.
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How do you have that much hate on gays to say that aloud? Makes no sense

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