Add former Chicago Bears lineman Dan Hampton to the list of people making anti-gay comments in sports. In a segment on the “Pro Football Weekly” cable show, Hampton said this of the Dallas Cowboys while previewing the NFC East (video below):
“The Cowboys think they are Clint Eastwood; they’re more of the ‘Brokeback’ variety if you know what I’m talking about.”
Translation: The Cowboys are a bunch of sissy-boy fags and not real he-men like Clint Eastwood, so don’t expect much from them this season. He said something even more offensive in previewing this week’s Vikings-Saints opener in New Orleans:
“The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.”
I’ll leave the last word on Hampton to a commenter on the Dallas Morning News blog:
Dan Hampton is living evidence that one too many concussions can leave a person brain dead in their later years of life. Hope all this stem cell research can find some help for him some day. What home was he released from to make these nonsense comments?
Update: Hampton later apologized for both the ‘Brokeback” and the Katrina remarks.
Hat tip for the item to Kathy.
on Sep 6th, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Yes, he is an idiot…many dumb fucks think being gay means being a wimp or a sissy….
on Sep 6th, 2010 at 4:55 PM
I hate the NFL anyway… but what an idiot.
on Sep 7th, 2010 at 10:36 AM
why does this guy have a job after the Katrina comment?
on Sep 7th, 2010 at 1:56 PM
He’s an asshole.
on Sep 7th, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Why does this guy have a job after either of these comments?
on Sep 7th, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Not surprisingly, his comment doesn’t even make sense. It is clear he is trying to say the team is over-rated, not that they’re weak. So something like, “the Cowboys think they’re Clint Eastwood, but they’re really like the Three Amigos,” would have been appropriate as well as funny.
on Sep 8th, 2010 at 2:25 AM
Dan Hampton That is NOT YOUR REAL HAIR. It is a very very bad rug. No wonder you are so hateful.
on Sep 8th, 2010 at 1:14 PM
Dan Hampton more Orson Wells than Eastwood…. nuff said.
on Sep 9th, 2010 at 12:22 PM
I don’t know if the Katrina joke will ever be appropriate. Has this guy lost his job yet?
on Sep 10th, 2010 at 4:20 PM
Lighten up guys. It was a metaphor. Its silly to pay too much attention to anything athletes say. Other than, their sport……they are children.
on Sep 12th, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Seriously some sensitive, sensitive folks these days … i guess I don’t read that deep and dark into things , hell if I did I’d be as depressed and miserable as those getting so dang upset over a stupid comment.
I hear this crap every single day at the comedy clubs, on comedy central, the Soup, Jay Leno, Dave Letterman, Chelsey lately … I mean c’mon people lighten the hell up and GET THE HECK OVER IT, NOBODY DIED or WAS KILLED while a dumb comment was made on a FOOTBALL show. Pretty soon you’ll want the players to wear flowers in there hair …..
on Sep 12th, 2010 at 11:10 PM
*their hair