Dan Hampton Removes One Foot From His Mouth

[punchnjudy]

I don't think Hampton was insulting gay people. He was just associating our favorite team with his favorite movie.

 

[Hostile]

so it's insulting to gays to compare them to Cowboys players? Don't let the skins fans here you say that!

Uh, he was not giving gays a compliment, regardless of who he "compared" them to.

 

[DallasEast]

Ugh such a tediously bleating, overacted response - "enact that change". The more you dramatize your point, the more pathetic and phony it sounds. I can practically hear your shirt rip as you rend your clothing in the public square - self-soothing empathy, or at least self-serving. Because Dan Hampton has the power to make or break hurricane recovery efforts and the spirits of those involved! Give us all a big fat break.

You're labeling me as dramatic, yet you are proclaiming that I am "ripping my shirt in a public square"? You're really getting into this, aren't you? Nonetheless, your exaggeration of what Hampton actually said (now he has the power to make or break hurricane recovery, yada, yada, yada) does not change what came out of his mouth.

"Give us 'all' a big fat break".

Tortured repetitive overstatement of this snipped No, he didn't say hurricane at all, did he? Point? That if he'd mentioned Hurricane Camille, all would be okay? Or would the same misery peddlers and clothes-renders have still managed to work up the same frothy amount of whining? "Hit New Orleans like a hurricane". The SAME handwringing and pantwetting would have happened, and you'd be here trying to "enact that change". Giggle.

So if Hampton utters 'Katrina' in a conversation about a game involving the New Orleans Saints, especially to underscore how much effort the Vikings should give during the game, the name does not automatically associate with the hurricane of the same name? That is not a 'point' in your mind? It is coincidence, I guess?

I doubt that Hampton would even consider (or know) to use Hurricane Camille to emphasize his comment. I am not certain if it would be viewed in the same light as stating Hurricane Katrina.

"Misery peddlers"? "Clothes-renders"? "Frothy whining"? "Handwringing"? "Pantwetting"?

You are going for a home run here, aren't you? Regardless, you have your opinion of Hampton's comments. Others agree with you. Others beside them do not. Your 'verbal exuberance' changes nothing.

You've been doing this through your post, conflating attitudes toward the event with references about the event. Saying Hampton's comments aren't a big deal isn't saying Katrina wasn't a big deal. Quit acting like it is. It's dishonest in the extreme. Quit it, we all see it, it's cheap and it isn't fooling anyone.

As I stated in my original post on this thread, Hampton's use of the word Katrina was not necessary. He could have easily used other analogies to get his 'point' across. He choose not to. In your mind (and others on this very thread), his use of the term should have zero negative connotations to anyone listening or reading it.

Quite frankly, that is disingenuous. Your demand has failed. If you believe that your interpretation is shared by everyone else, you are fooling yourself.
disingeniousSays the guy with the Katrina stigmata and rended clothing in the public square! The overreaction is with those who peddle in grievances and victimization. The folks in New Orleans are big boys and girls, and as rational adults can figure out the difference between a sports metaphor and a real life disaster (which, frankly, was man made in nature, the hurricane itself was not particularly spectacular).[/quote]"Stigmata" and more clothes-rending. And you enjoy the public square bit a lot.

No one (that I have seen thus far) has not differentiated Hampton's intended use of "Katrina" within his "The Minnesota Vikings should hit New Orleans like Katrina" phrase. My point (which you avoid by misaligning it) it was not necessary for him to use the term to get his point across--not because he was invoking mythical weather powess, but that he was underscoring an event which impacted the Gulf Coast in a devastating way. With many alternatives available to him, this was his intent and he took it.

Again, it did not offend you. It did not offend some who heard or read it that reside within the Gulf Coast. However, it did offend others. Our discussion of this will not change any 'side', but acknowledgment of Hampton's unnecessary use of the term will be conveyed by some and not by others.

It has almost gotten to the point where speaking your mind must have zero consequences. In a human society as diversed as ours, especially in this country alone, that's an... amazing assumption.

If someone says they are going to hit the Cowboys like a bolt of lightning or a tornado, I don't expect to see Coach DeCamillis go fetal and wet himself on the sideline - I expect he's man enough to know the difference between a metaphor and praying for the Wind God to strike down the Cowboys with mortal injury. HELL, the joke within the first hours of the event was "the Cowboys usually wait until the post-season to collapse, hardy har har". Are we men or are we so feminized, so castrated that we are threatened by rhetorical boogeymen, fleeing under the bed until we make the bad people stop their painful words? Criminey, you're a grown man, act like it!!!

Now Katrina = the tragedy which befell Joe DeCamillis, Rich Behm and a dozen others.

Man.

This is getting worse, so I will establish one ground rule before this conversation continues (if it does):

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Keep the genitalia talk out of this thread

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I think you are thinking of someone else perhaps... pretty sure he wore pants. Not alot of superhero options for the brothers, perhaps you are thinking of Black Vulcan? And why couldn't he just be Vulcan? It isn't White Superman!

You're right. I was thinking Marvel instead of that DC crap.

Heck, at least Marvel has Black Lightning wearing pants. :

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Why the heck can I open another internet window, surf to Cowboyszone, open this thread, post a quick reply, BUT I can't post a long reply right now?

Stupid work internet filter!

LOL why are you asking us a question where you fully know the answer to? You're a funny bird, DE.

 

[DallasEast]

LOL why are you asking us a question where you fully know the answer to? You're a funny bird, DE.

:tongue:

 

[Biggems]

Gay group calls for Dan Hampton to apologize for Cowboys 'Brokeback' comment

Posted at 11:26 PM on Tue., Sep. 7, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has called for Hall of Famer Dan Hampton to apologize for referring to the Dallas Cowboys as more 'Brokeback' than Eastwood.

In a statement on its blog, a GLAAD official writes: "Hampton was trying to insult the Cowboys by comparing them to gay people - simple as that. Hampton wasn't actually saying the Cowboys players are gay, but by making this comment, Hampton telegraphed to his audience that gay men are not good enough, just as he doesn't believe the Dallas Cowboys are good enough. Hampton needs to apologize for this offensive and defamatory statement, just as he needed to apologize for his Katrina comment. We will be calling Pro Football Weekly to voice our concerns."

Read more: http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***/archives/2010/09/dan-hampton-aplogies-for-katri.html

cry me a freakin river.....gay people are so overly sensative it is disgusting. have a freakin sense of humor. learn to laugh at yourself.

I am fat, balding, and white. I dont get upset at fat humor, bald humor, or when white people are made fun of. Actually, as long as the joke is funny, I will laugh my tail off.

Life is too short, stop taking everything and ourselves so darned seriously.....take some time out to look into the mirror and laugh.