Shavlik Randolph Doesn't Want Any 'Gayness' Brought His Way

Posted Feb 08, 2007 11:27PM By The Big Lead (RSS feed)

The Fanhouse was a day ahead of the John Amaechi-is-gay story, and here's one that should set Friday on fire: Two Philadelphia 76ers came off sounding like absolute fools when asked for their thoughts on playing with a gay teammate. Check out these two quotes:

Shavlik Randolph: "As long as you don't bring your gayness on me I'm fine. As far as business-wise, I'm sure I could play with him. But I think it would create a little awkwardness in the locker room."

Steven Hunter: "For real? He's gay for real?" said Hunter. "Nowadays it's proven that people can live double lives. I watch a lot of TV, so I see a lot of sick perverted stuff about married men running around with gay guys and all types of foolishness. "

I'm in such uncontrollable laughter over these quotes, there really isn't much left to say. But some of the crazies in the Fanhouse should have fun with it. Have at it, ladies and germs.

(If you're asking why I'm using video instead of a picture, it's because I'm an incompetent moron struggling to adhere to Fanhouse photo rules. And I love this job!)

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2-09-2007 @ 12:20AM

AwfulAnnouncing said...

Good lord....don't these teams have PR people up to the caliber of Kim Etheridge?

2-09-2007 @ 1:06AM

Brian said...

To be fair, these are guys who are good at throwing a ball through a hoop. Brains not required.

In any event, the whole high profile coming out of the closet thing (complete with the book deal) is so old now--Elton John, KD Lang, Melissa Etheridge, Ellen Degeneres, Jim McGreevey, etc. etc. etc.--that it seems pretty anti-climactic. The possibility of allowing gays to serve openly in the military--the most macho of vocations and an admission that gays are already in the service--has been debated for 15 years now.

Pro sports is kind of demonstrating their backwardness in showing even this level of amazement for something that is old news for the rest of American society.

2-09-2007 @ 3:13AM

dmilligan61 said...

Don't forget Billy Beane from MLB

2-09-2007 @ 8:51AM

sw said...

Billy Bean was the gay one. Billy BEANE is the GM of the Oakland A's. He might be gay, too, but god bless him for not bringing that gayness on nobody else...

2-20-2007 @ 8:52AM

BlueCarp said...

Shavlik Randolph: another fine example of a Duke University education. (Yeah, I went to Carolina.)

2-20-2007 @ 8:44PM

BA said...

The absolute fool is the person who authored this article and blows these comments out of proportion, and the idiots who comment on them, like they are completely off the wall comments. These are normal guys making honest comments, but because they are professional athletes some moron blows whatever they say out of proportion even though they have probably said something worse at one point or another. Neither comment bashed gays, they basically said they would be uncomfortable with knowing a gay man was in their locker room. Having been in the military and just living an average life, I have heard comments much worse than these that people don't make a fuss over because they weren't made by a celebrity. I think a high percentage of straight people would feel uncomfortable sharing a locker room with an openly gay person, and I don't think there is anything wrong with feeling that way, because it is just a natural feeling. Being a male, I think most women would feel uncomfortable sharing a locker room with me even though I would most likely not want to make sexual advances on every single one of them or find every one of them attractive. Why should it be a different feeling for a straight man with a gay man? People should think about how they would respond to a simple question or how they would feel before bashing what someone else said just because it happened to be written down by some moron from the media.