Gay Rights Activist Chris Kluwe Is Both a Hero and Hypocrite

July 19, 2014   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

Chris Kluwe started a fight. It began as a noble fight. A fight that had the potential to change the NFL world. To make it better. To make locker rooms better.
He accomplished some of that. His former assistant coach, Mike Priefer, was suspended by the Vikings three games after the team's internal investigation showed Kluwe's claim that Priefer made a homophobic remark was accurate. Priefer can reduce the suspension to two games if he takes sensitivity training. A synopsis of that report was released to the media late Friday.
That's the honorable part of what Kluwe did. Remember, Priefer initially denied making a remark. So in this way, Kluwe was completely vindicated. The report refutes Kluwe's larger claim that he was dismissed from the team because of his increasingly public stance supporting gay rights.
But to me, that wasn't the important part of this story. This story was locker rooms and how in the post-Incognito NFL world, locker rooms were changing, they were be...

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