WAYNE BESEN
On the same day that San Francisco 49ers’ cornerback Chris Culliver offered a lame apology for making homophobic remarks, 49ers’ Ahmad Brooks and nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga, denied that they helped produce a much-praised “It Gets Better” video last summer, the first such video made by an National Football League team.
Chris Culliver
Dan Savage, who founded the “It’s Gets Better” project, removed the video from his organization’s website — the first time such an action has been taken.
In an interview with USA Today, Brooks and Sopoaga said that they didn’t realize the video’s aim was to specifically combat bullying experienced by LGBT teens.
The repellent actions of these three players are absolutely outrageous and insulting.
They are a slap in the face to America’s most gay-friendly metropolis and a rejection of the inclusive values that have made San Francisco one of the world’s great cities.
As for Brooks and Sopoaga, they are entitled to place their ignorance on full display, but they should realize that it comes with a prohibitive cost to their reputations, the city they represent, and the sport in which they are supposed to be ambassadors.
Their crass words and clueless actions are as divisive as they are dumb — tearing at the fabric of San Francisco at a time when the Super Bowl should be uniting the city, as well as football fans everywhere.That these men, as well as Culliver, have foolishly elected to use their Super Bowl spotlight to demean and dehumanize a substantial portion of their fan base is a brazen act of arrogance that encourages the very bullying the ‘It Gets Better’ project addresses.
It is our view that the San Francisco 49ers should suspend Culliver without pay for the first two games next season.
And the team should strongly contemplate parting ways with Brooks and Sopoaga next year for the breach of trust and significant harm they have done to the team’s reputation and relationship with the city.”
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those 4 words describe the entire team period
Typical of many a footie player: IQ less than a gnat.
I hope the Assholes lose this weekend
Oh they will lose
Go Ravens.
Go Ravens!!!!!!
Go Ravens!!!!!!!
Go Ravens!
Classless. Utterly classless.
Am with Dave now GO RAVENS…… was for SF not anymore….
Ravens all the way! Tyrrell Suggs should have a little talk with Culliver, and set him straight…..pun intended.
Because I am more “sweet” than bitter or salty, I accept the apology. And after all, there is so much evidence that football players are brain damaged, so be compassionate.
boorish, crass, ignorant. to call them assholes insults assholes.
If they have the balls to DEGRADE equal members and citizens of America…then they have the balls to DEAL with them being suspended! THIS IS TRULY UNACCEPTABLE! This is bullying of a grand scale. This is not your high school bully…but from people who are being paid to be BETTER than that high school bully! By being an NFL player not only are you a football player but you are also a kid’s dream (if they loved sports).
Better stop smacking asses on the field douchebag….GO RAVENS!
Shame, shame, shame.
GO RAVENS!!!
Go ravens!!!!!!
RAVENSS even though im not into football XD
FIRE these over paid under educated bigots!
idiots
An apology is too little, too late after his disparaging remarks. “A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots.” He is NOT TO BE TRUSTED! He is only trying to hold on to his career; what there is of it!
That describes most of Congress too.