Amaechi - Hardaway (Merged)

[OCBucksFan]

Yeah - it doesn't appear that he was being held hostage to his sexuality. Honestly I seriously doubt that anyone other than your hardcore Penn State fan or your seriously crazy NBA fan would even remember him.

It's a ploy to sell books as BB73 said. The media will blow it up and I don't think anyone truly cares.

I honestly wonder how many professional atheletes would care that much about it. There's always this statement from the 80's of "you don't have to shower with the guy" but really, not a whole lot of it has been said since. The same excuse is used, and the closest thing we have is that one wnba player who said she was gay, and I think the rest of the world went "No shit?"

 

[Mike80]

I honestly wonder how many professional atheletes would care that much about it. There's always this statement from the 80's of "you don't have to shower with the guy" but really, not a whole lot of it has been said since. The same excuse is used, and the closest thing we have is that one wnba player who said she was gay, and I think the rest of the world went "No shit?"

Some, I'm sure, would have an issue, but most, like what we are seeing on this thread, just wouldn't care one way or the other.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Some, I'm sure, would have an issue, but most, like what we are seeing on this thread, just wouldn't care one way or the other.

Yeah, you're most likely right. There's still a lot of old school guys in there, but the majority of the players went to colleges where they had gay papers, clubs, etc... and it's just something people have learned to accept, it's not like if you drink after someone you might catch gay.

 

[Bucklion]

I honestly wonder how many professional atheletes would care that much about it. There's always this statement from the 80's of "you don't have to shower with the guy" but really, not a whole lot of it has been said since. The same excuse is used, and the closest thing we have is that one wnba player who said she was gay, and I think the rest of the world went "No shit?"

It's different with chicks though, at least in terms of overall public perception. I imagine there would be some jocks who would be creeped out in the shower, but that's life...many wouldn't care either, as long as a person wasn't making a pass at them. When you reach professional leagues, you are paid to do a job, and that shouldn't be affected by such things if you are a professional. If there are personal issues, then they should be handled like all other personal issues are handled.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Man in the Middle?

 

[Mike80]

Man in the Middle?

 

[sandgk]

Just for comparison - the Amaechi career highlights ...

• Named to the 1999-2000 NBA All-Interview First Team
• Scored the first basket in Miami's AmericanAirlines Arena, and the first NBA points in the new millenium on 1/2/00
• Tied for sixth in media voting for the NBA's Most Improved Player Award in 1999-2000
• One of only seven undrafted players to start an NBA game in 1999-2000

Not much in there.

So now we learn that it wasn't only as a player that he sucked ...

 

[PlanetFrnd]

So now we learn that it wasn't only as a player that he sucked ...

Wow

 

[Cornerback6]

Someone enjoyed the locker room a little more than others.

 

[Honor&Glory]

Man in the Middle?

help me out here because I am not sure I remember this guy. If I am remembering correctly, wasn't he the black kid with the english accent and the italian last name and the dumbo ears?

IF he is, my wife called this when he was a senior at PiSU and she saw an interview with him. She said something like "he's gay and probably doesn't even know it..."

I guess he did know it.

 

[sandgk]

Yep, he is on the list of 100 most famous British Black People.

 

[Jaxbuck]

All PSU players are gay..where's the news in this?

 

[Thump]

All PSU players are gay..where's the news in this?

I think BN27 would agree with that sentiment.

I'd rep you but I've given out too much in the last 24 hours.

 

[OCBucksFan]

It's different with chicks though, at least in terms of overall public perception. I imagine there would be some jocks who would be creeped out in the shower, but that's life...many wouldn't care either, as long as a person wasn't making a pass at them. When you reach professional leagues, you are paid to do a job, and that shouldn't be affected by such things if you are a professional. If there are personal issues, then they should be handled like all other personal issues are handled.

True about women, however, that's really the closest thing we have seen to a professional athlete coming out of the closet. So all the reaction is speculation, everyone is expecting a reaction similar to the show playmakers a few years ago, but most of these kids have been around/seen/or heard about homosexuality since they were little. It's not like the 80's where the paranoia was there that if you were gay you got aids and died.

There's still a lot of closed minded people out there, but the person who comes out after the fact is getting old. So what, you were gay. Also, you bring a good point, it's not like these guys are making 25 bux an hour to clean windows, some of them make more in a year than we will in a lifetime, so they have to learn to deal with things.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Also, you bring a good point, it's not like these guys are making 25 bux an hour to clean windows, some of them make more in a year than we will in a lifetime, so they have to learn to deal with things.

Yeah, because if you clean windows, you can just push "the gays" off that thing they stand on to clean the windows, and you don't have to deal with that stuff.