I’ve read part of it. Then I realized it wasn’t going to be about football at all. :smack:
You are a drooling moron. From the espn story:
(bolding mine). You’re just making shit up, aren’t you? We oughta get you and Glen Beck into a room and see what the two of you can invent from whole cloth. “The rise in homosexual teenage suicide bombers can be traced back to John Madden’s fundamentalist christian and socialist agendas.”
Racist.
He’s a Christian. That means he used his FAMILY VALUES mind control waves to kill his son, why can’t you understand that? Christopher Hitchens says it, so it must be true.
I don’t know shit about his son, but I do remember seeing some special on him on ESPN about his coaching days, and I was a bit shocked over how much his faith spilled over into his coaching … going on about team prayers and faith-based activities and Christainity this and Jesus that and the holy ghost other thing.
It just rubbed me the wrong way. If I were a 22-year-old stud, 6’4 220 with a golden arm and the reflexes of a cheetah … I wouldn’t want to play for him, if it meant I had to either pray with team or be ostracized.
The fact that he’s anti-SSM is hardly shocking to me.
The number of ex players, coaches, and colleagues that came out to gush about him after he finally retired seems to indicate not many feel like you would.
In fact, after Dungy left Tampa, the first game the next season Gruden dismissed a pregame meeting. Warren Sap called everybody back, stating they had prayed before every game for the past 6 years, and they weren’t going to stop now.
Of course, Warren Sap isn’t 6’4". He’s not 220 either and his are definitely isn’t golden, but he still seemed to do OK. Heck, he’d even take a bullet for Dungy, as long as it didn’t kill him.
Yay. Christians like him. Who cares. Wasn’t my point.
He once took a double cheeseburger for Dungy.
You might not want to play for him, but you probably would, if he had the best chance at taking a team to a championship.
Well, considering that his reputation was somewhat akin to that of Marty Schottenheimer until 2006…
I don’t think Warren Sapp is a Christian.
If you give the people what they want, they’ll turn out every time.
Aw, shut up and go plow your cornfield.
I probably would as a rookie, if I didn’t have much other choice, but I guarantee I would not be comforfortable playing for someone whose entire method of coaching and interaction was centered around Christianity.
I’m not a NFLer; I’m a data-analyst. But if my boss instituted mandatory prayers and faith-based activities … I’d go work somewhere else.
Wait though. Remember the guy we are talking about. Condescending Robot is basing his assessment out of something he completely made up. Dungee never disowned his gay son. James wasn’t even gay, and seems to have had a good relationship with his father. So Condescending Robot is completely full of shit.
Sure, Tony Dungee led prayers in practice. But that’s it. The muslims on the team didn’t have a problem with it, and I’d bet the atheists and agnostics didn’t mind bowing their heads for a minute or two out of respect for the man. He wasn’t running a theocracy or trying to indoctrinate anybody.
Yeah, well, they’re not me. I’d have a problem with it.
Really? Are you so fanatical in your beliefs (or non-beliefs, whatever) that you couldn’t humor a guy for one minute?
Fucking A, man. If so, then you are as bad as the evangelicals.
How the hell can you read the whole thread, or even a single page of it, and not have cottoned on to how to spell Dungy?
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Would you? If your boss demanded that you face east and pray to Mecca each morning before work, you’d be fine with that? Or if you had to burn incense to honor your relatives. Or if you didn’t have a choice but to offer a ceremonial sacrifice to Kali.
Every day before work and your only choice was to say, “Ok boss, whatever you say,” and that would be perfectly hunky-dory.
Maybe for you, milquetoast, not me.