Athletes sure know how to step in it. While there are folks like Donal Óg Cusack, Brendon Ayanbadejo, and Scott Fujita, there’s also folks like boxer Bernard Hopkins, whose demonstrates his homophobia in front of reporters. Oh, now add Kansas City Chiefs Larry Johnson to that list.
Johnson’s first target was his own coach, Todd Haley, who led the team to Sunday’s 37-7 loss to San Diego. His megaphone? Twitter, of course. Then he started going after his own Twitter followers, saying one “Christopher street boy” had a “fag [profile] pic.” Not surprisingly, Johnson’s Twitter profile went private. (The full tweet: “think bout a clever diss then that wit ur [expletive] pic. Christopher street boy. Is what us east coast cats call u.”)
And because he didn’t learn his lesson — and apparently he doesn’t have wise enough handlers to be all “STFU, Johnson” — he continued the rant on Monday in the locker room. Refusing to speak to the press, he told reporters “I’m not talking till Thursday” and then, whispering, “Get your faggot ass out of here.”
So far, the NFL has been mum about potential reprimands. But Johnson’s record speaks for itself: “Johnson has had four arrests for various degrees of battery since being drafted by the Chiefs in 2003. One charge was pled down, with Johnson serving time in a domestic violence diversion program. A second charge was dropped, while two other charges – including the aforementioned spitting incident – were reduced to disturbing the peace. Johnson received probation for a guilty plea in the latter two charges. The spitting incident resulted in a one-game suspension for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Prior to serving the league-mandated penalty, Johnson missed the Chiefs’ previous three games for violation of team rules.”
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terrwill
NFL: No Fags Leauge?? The entire leauge is a total joke. They portray themselves as an “elite” leauge of “professionals”. For the most part the leauge is filled with common street thugs who don’t even realize how damm lucky they are to be in the position they are. An unbelievable 21% of NFL players have been charged with serious crimes!……….And Larry Johnson: it always seems like the one who cries the loudest with anti-Gay epithats is usually the one who is also the biggest closet cases………
Eddie
People need to realize we use fag all the time. I as the bar this weekend and heard 100 times between other gay men. If we can’t stop it how do we expect others too. Is the same with the N word.
Hmmm
Not to open a whole can of worms… But it is not as simple as saying “it’s fine to use the N-word” or “it’s fine to say “Faggot.” It matters immensely how it is used and by whom. This football player said it as a hateful insult, so it is not ok. If a gay guy at a club says “Hey, fag!” to his friend as a way of saying “hello” before hugging him, it is totally different.
YouJudgeButDontWantToBeJudged
The incidents involving Larry Johnson and women beating are disturbing and should have been dealt with, but for those of you who are upset because he said, “Fag”, are just ridiculous. People use the term in a derogatory manner all the time- its not necessarily okay, but this over-reaction is absurd. SHAME ON YOU for judging someone else. There’s no rule that says you can’t get angry and make mistakes. At least his time his mistake is only verbal! You all do it. So do I. I don’t hate gays or blacks or others… but I do and you do make mistakes. To hold these humans as somehow above the standard is just a sham. Yeah, they get paid more, but you would likely do the same. Fix the system and stop blaming one another. I doubt LJ really hates gays. He probably doesn’t care one iota what others do in a bedroom; nor do I and if you are intelligent then neither do you… but this stops none of us from saying things. I expect better from America. If we are to figure out our current predicament we need to focus on the real problems and not dwell on this infantile banter. Figure out how to get universal healthcare and have universal compassion for all man/womankind and stop getting so sensitive when there are actually people dying on our streets from neglect. Seriously. Read a book. Stop using Twitter you twits.
alejandro
queerty…
you should put more vids from this guy.. he made an awesome response vid to this whole situtation 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMXVYMV3X8
HeeHaw
What an ugly nigger.
Fitz
Eddie, did you really say (paraphphrase) “people say fag all the time..is the same as the N word”?
Really?
People say fag, and it’s the same as “the N word”?
fag fag fag nigger nigger nigger.
We can say these words, and discuss their meaning– we are all grownups here. And if we decide that we can’t use them, lets not use either.
insufferable_know_it_all
No, everyone needs to stop using the F word if you want to get respect. That’s what I tell the people in my fellow black race. They need to stop using the N word if they want everyone else to. It’s that simple. Maybe not convenient, but it’s a simple plan.
Mario
he has a gay face
– “what you hate in a person, you hate about yourself” – it’s that simple
mypitts2
“For the most part the leauge (sic) is filled with common street thugs …”
People repeat this lie all the time.
At least Rush’s repeating of the lie cost him an ownership opportunity.
Most professional athletes lead cleaner lives than people in the general public b/c they know their every slip-up will be magnified by putzes like the one who made this comment.
Yes, there are a few bad apples and some of these guys are indeed, thugs. And personally, I’m glad this Johnson guy got the boot. But people like him are nowhere near the majority.
The media of course, focuses on the negative and the dramatic.
No one hears about the camps they do and the United Way assistance. Many of them, independently of the league, contribute and give back to their communities. We have a big such event in my home town every year attended by several NFL players.
So please kindly can that “they’re all thugs” crap.
fag
fagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfuckthefagsfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfagfuckthefags
They do not deserve respect and BTW, they been voted out of every state they’ve tried to infect.
Fags are an infection
The fags have been voted out of almost every state they’ve tried to infect.
Fags are un-natural thus abnormal. They do not deserve anything from society other then disdain.
talkingjerry
@Eddie:
You shouldn’t be so simply-minded. The “hmmm” comment explains this well.