percocet price how to get accutane without prescription celexa sale testosterone capsules buy norco oxycodone sale generic lamisil tablets cheap celebrex tenuate canada prozac sales generic for diflucan prozac without prescription tenuate prescription tenuate 25 mg name for norvasc testosterone cypionate 200 mg generic lamisil pills percocet to buy accutane pharmacy buy rimonabant percocet 500 buy percocet online consultation percocet pill online testosterone testosterone patch buy celexa cost prozac sale celebrex cost lexapro 40 mg daily buy testosterone ethanate accutane acne treatment generic elavil effexor online rimonabant sales lexapro 40 mg percocet street price buy percocet no prescription rimonabant sale testosterone 100 clomid 25mg percocet 7.5 500 effexor xr 75 tamiflu 75 mg testosterone cream 2 lamisil pictures amoxycillin 250mg ultracet 537 effexor 75 percocet 5 225 percocet 3 325 testosterone otc lamisil no prescription testosterone cypionate buy prozac mg active ingredient in lamisil accutane cost testosterone 250 tamiflu oseltamivir percocet 650 lamisil 125 lexapro uk lexapro pill buy rimonabant uk clomid uk pictures of elavil generic diflucan lexapro cost 5mg percocet prozac 60 mg lexapro free samples discount clomid order percocet without prescription cheap effexor xr diflucan drug percocet 512 prozac picture 30mg lexapro clomid 150 mg percocet by mail cheap elavil tamiflu 75mg effexor canada percocet sales testosterone online clomid 3 7 ultracet 650 drug elavil testosterone pharmacy where to buy rimonabant buy celebrex prozac 10 accutane 30 mg effexor rx order clomid prozac uk generic lexapro prozac 200 mg tamiflu pills cost effexor buy cheap accutane online buy rimonabant pill testosterone purchase effexor xr 37.5 mg lamisil and generic effexor 150 percocet 325 mg rimonabant 20 cheap accutane online celexa pharmacy clomid 100mg rimonabant in canada prozac 15 mg lamisil 250 clomid cost generic percocet pictures ultracet overnight prozac 20 mg tamiflu pharmacy percocet watson 825 percocet cheap norvasc 2.5mg buy percocet without prescription norvasc 1 percocet rxlist klonopin sale percocet 15 klonopin pharmacy clomid 2 elavil medicine cheap klonopin weight loss drug rimonabant percocet no prescription diflucan 150mg oxycodone pills diflucan alternatives 7.5 percocet celexa without prescription effexor xr capsule effexor 150mg diflucan 100 accutane no prescription norvasc pill tenuate no rx lamisil tablets alcohol tamiflu tablets lamisil 30 ultracet pills lamisil canada buy rimonabant now clomid 50g testosterone medications norco online diflucan medication buy prozac online norvasc vs generic percocet medicine lamisil india prozac pictures testosterone 400 norvasc online tamiflu uk generic oxycodone buy lexapro online accutane online norvasc generic percocet prescription lexapro 5 mg ultracet er amoxycillin dp 500mg diflucan sale prozac 2008 order accutane without prescription testosterone pill side effects percocet watson 749 klonopin no prescription purchase testosterone elavil description oxycodone cost 0636 percocet elavil 500 generic accutane names lamisil price cheap percocet diflucan medicine buy cheap diflucan buy testosterone patch norco tablets 15 mg percocet testosterone prescriptions percocet 30mg prescription for lamisil percocet price street butalbital 50 mg prozac discount elavil 50 diflucan online percocet for sale prozac 50 mg norco pills cheap norvasc amoxycillin india buy testosterone pills clomid pills elavil 4 elavil 25 mg drug generic lamisil butalbital tablets percocet order clomid over the counter elavil 70 percocet 10-325 lexapro 15 mg diflucan 150 512 percocet buy clomid tamiflu swin flu generic butalbital percocet 2.5 percocet mg injectable testosterone percocet with no prescription testosterone enanthate buy cost of rimonabant buy accutane tenuate 25mg buy lexapro klonopin price celebrex online celexa price lamisil 200 mg lexapro pharmacy percocet buy online buy accutane with no prescription elavil cost generic testosterone gel clomid without a prescription lamisil 1 lexapro viagra prozac 60mg elavil tablets generic effexor xr lamisil active ingredient lamisil 1x testosterone pill cheap diflucan effexorxr percocet 932 clomid prescriptions testosterone 200 mg percocet 54543 prozac over the counter celebrex pharmacy clomid unprescribed lexapro street value testosterone without prescription lexapro 30mg lexapro pills percocet 5325 online prozac diflucan usa percocet 5mg accutane pills oxycodone online 30mg percocet butalbital 50mg generic norco percocet 4839 cheap lexapro discount elavil generic version of lamisil amoxycillin drug ingredients in lamisil lamisil tablets percocet medication clomid cheap buy testosterone powder discount rimonabant testosterone tablets buy percocet online without a prescription effexor alternative generic accutane canada amoxycillin medicine percocet generic norvasc medicine elavil 50 mg drug amoxycillin and the pill purchase rimonabant testosterone enanthate 250 testosterone prices clomid pharmacy clomid 5 9 testosterone pills buy percocet mexico percocet 30 discount lamisil norvasc 25 buy testosterone gel online lamisil prescription percocet street value effexor xr online butalbital prescription

Plax: Gay rumors hurt Kordell Stewart

kord009.jpgNFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress says that rumors about his then-Pittsburgh Steelers teammate Kordell Stewart’s being gay affected the quarterback’s play. From Pro Football Talk:

“It had to be tough on him personally,” Burress told Tim Benz of Pittsburgh radio station 105.9. “I didn’t call him gay or anything like that. . . . I think that’s one of the reasons why he really couldn’t become the player that he wanted to be. . . . It has to play on you mentally a little bit.”

Burress, now with the New York Giants, discusses Stewart (who retired in 2005) and the gay rumors is his new book, “Giant: The Road to the Super Bowl.”

“People were talking about [Kordell] being gay,” Burress writes in Chapter 5. “The players heard that, but we never talked about it. I don’t know if Kordell is gay or not. It was none of our business. If ever we would have talked about it, it would have made everybody uncomfortable. If some player was gay, I don’t think he could come out while he was still playing. It would be real hard. It would mess a team up mentally and it wouldn’t be good for that person.”

Burress also said that the rumors caused Stewart to withdraw from teammates. “He had to watch the people that he hung around with. Just hanging out with your friends, or your boys and your cousins, all those things come to the surface. I think he just insulated himself after a while.”

Burress’ comments reflect the widely accepted view that it would be very hard for a player to come out. What is interesting is how reports of Stewart’s sexuality made it into the mainstream media in the late 1990s, at a time when the subject of gays in sports was still little discussed. Stewart never was able to take a team to the Super Bowl and we’ll never be sure whether he simply wasn’t good enough of whether the rumors proved to be too much of a distraction. -Jim Buzinski

Hat tip to Michael David Smith at AOL Fanhouse.




Blog Widget by LinkWithin

8 Comments on “Plax: Gay rumors hurt Kordell Stewart”

  1. #1 Just4Kxx
    on Jul 12th, 2008 at 1:58 am

    >

    That’s what I’ve always wondered as well. You wouldn’t believe–or actually, a lot of you probably would believe–the inane opinions that otherwise intelligent people here in western PA had regarding Stewart’s performance. Stewart unfortunately had TWO strikes against him when it came to this mentality. When his (white and presumably heterosexual) predecessor, Mark Malone, and successor, Mike Tomczak, were Pittsburgh’s Most Hated….well, it was because they just sucked. But when it was Kordell Stewart, it was because a black man and/or gay man couldn’t handle being a quarterback.

  2. #2 jason
    on Jul 13th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Why is male sexuality in America polarized between “gay” and “straight”? Whatever happened to bisexuality in men? Most men are bisexual in orienation, yet American society and the media in general think that men can only be gay or straight. It’s unfair to men.

  3. #3 mark
    on Jul 13th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    This notion that men can only be gay or straight is a form of pornographic correctness. It has arisen because of liberals. Liberals like this polarization because it enables them to treat gay men as a politically useful pity class.

    The simple fact is that most men are biologically bisexual in orientation.

  4. #4 Joe Guckin
    on Jul 13th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    Pornographic correctness? Liberals are to blame for those who don’t believe in bisexuality??? So many emoticons… :shock: :???: :roll: :?:

  5. #5 Bobhadmany Marley
    on Jul 14th, 2008 at 3:54 am

    One might suggest that “conservatives” like the polarization as well because it gives them someone to fight against. :???: I think that people want to live as simple a life as possible. Bisexual is more complicated than gay which is more complicated than straight. It’s biological for us to survive and be ordinary, not thrive and be extraordinary.

  6. #6 Hako
    on Jul 14th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    Are we ever going to get past this? All human beings sexual have desires, and gravitate toward their strongest desires. We are living in hell because many hetero-sexual people believe their set of desires is superior, or is evidence of some inherent superiority. Many men find other men sexually interesting, but they don’t describe themselves as gay. It’s all part of the
    “approach/avoidance” and denial in professional sports. It’s rooted in massive insecurity and contempt for women……and contempt for any man that shares the sexual desires of women.

  7. #7 JimJ
    on Jul 17th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    “MOST” men bisexual?? anyone want to cite some authority for that strange proposition?

  8. #8 ?
    on Aug 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    Whoa, whoa, whoa… I agree with JimJ. Since when are MOST men bisexual? Because I know I’m not and based on how well I know my friends(which is very well), neither are they. I highly disagree with that statement. And for the record, I have gay friends as well. I’m not homophobic. I just don’t think it’s right to make such a bold proclamation.

    And in reference to the article, I just have to say it’s too bad Kordell’s career went the way it did. He is the reason I first became interested in football. I’ve never seen a player as exciting as him on the field.

Leave a Comment