The player signed in the NFL draft that everyone SHOULD be talking about

[Adam]

Eagles sign 6-foot-9 Villanueva

The Philadelphia Eagles have signed Alejandro Villanueva, a 6-foot-9 defensive lineman who spent the past four years as an active member of the United States Army and most recently served as a U.S. Army Ranger.

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The 277-pound Villanueva served three tours in Afghanistan. He was recently promoted to captain.

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Villanueva served as the Black Knights' offensive captain in 2009 and led the team in receptions (34), yards (522) and touchdowns (five). He began his career at Army as a reserve defensive lineman and transitioned to left tackle in 2008, starting all 12 games at that position as a junior.

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During his first deployment to Afghanistan, Villanueva earned the Bronze Star Medal for valor for moving forward under enemy fire to pull wounded soldiers from an isolated position, according to the Eagles' release. He later volunteered for the U.S. Army Rangers program and served two more tours in Afghanistan.

It just goes to show how warped, twisted, and ass-backwards our media is.

Instead of having wall-to-wall celebration-as-a-hero of some mediocre nobody as a seventh-round draft pick, and then gleefully promoting that same mediocre player shoving his homosexuality into the face of everyone else in America and beyond, the media should have been focused upon a young man who went out and not only actually had an impressive career in college both on and off the field, but even more importantly, he volunteered to put himself in the line of fire for this country, not once, but THREE TIMES. And all that while setting aside a potentially very lucrative NFL career start to do so.


Who's the real hero here?

The question answers itself.

[phillygirl]

Yeah. I followed him a little before the draft and was hoping he'd get drafted. What a nice kid. I may even follow the Iggles with him on the team.

[Frostbit]

Yeah. I followed him a little before the draft and was hoping he'd get drafted. What a nice kid. I may even follow the Iggles with him on the team.

You are the demon spawn. It's people like you that give Scrapple a bad name.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

It just goes to show how warped, twisted, and ass-backwards our media is.

Instead of having wall-to-wall celebration-as-a-hero of some mediocre nobody as a seventh-round draft pick, and then gleefully promoting that same mediocre player shoving his homosexuality into the face of everyone else in America and beyond, the media should have been focused upon a young man who went out and not only actually had an impressive career in college both on and off the field, but even more importantly, he volunteered to put himself in the line of fire for this country, not once, but THREE TIMES. And all that while setting aside a potentially very lucrative NFL career start to do so.


Who's the real hero here?

The question answers itself.

Adam, get the fuck over yourself. He celebrated his moment with his significant other, just as sports personalities often do. They hug their wives, girlfriends, parents, old coaches. If it pisses you off to see a happy gay football player celebrate with his boyfriend, try therapy. It isn't "shoving" anything into anybody's face (certainly no more than Tebow and his ostentatious religiosity, which I believe you defended vigorously), and it takes nothing away from the other guy.

You're starting to border on obsession, man. Seriously.

[phillygirl]

Adam, get the fuck over yourself. He celebrated his moment with his significant other, just as sports personalities often do. They hug their wives, girlfriends, parents, old coaches. If it pisses you off to see a happy gay football player celebrate with his boyfriend, try therapy. It isn't "shoving" anything into anybody's face (certainly no more than Tebow and his ostentatious religiosity, which I believe you defended vigorously), and it takes nothing away from the other guy.

You're starting to border on obsession, man. Seriously.

I believe the entire issue was handled inappropriately, not necessarily by the player, but by the media. The media "shoved" his homosexuality into everyone's face. I believe the player had a genuine moment, but it did take away from everyone else, as his moment was pretty much the only one shown...again and again and again. Admittedly I don't usually watch the draft news. I couldn't avoid this one, as it seemed to play on every channel (and trust me, I'm not one to actively try to turn on ESPN, so it was definitely playing on the non-sports channels...over and over again).

They got their video clip, time to move on. I do think it's a shame that the Eagles player didn't get more attention. If we're going to do human interest stories on the draftees, his was a good one.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

I believe the entire issue was handled inappropriately, not necessarily by the player, but by the media. The media "shoved" his homosexuality into everyone's face. I believe the player had a genuine moment, but it did take away from everyone else, as his moment was pretty much the only one shown...again and again and again. Admittedly I don't usually watch the draft news. I couldn't avoid this one, as it seemed to play on every channel (and trust me, I'm not one to actively try to turn on ESPN, so it was definitely playing on the non-sports channels...over and over again).

They got their video clip, time to move on. I do think it's a shame that the Eagles player didn't get more attention. If we're going to do human interest stories on the draftees, his was a good one.

The media focus on what gets views. Sex and gore. And something new. They already did a story on the NFL player who went in the military and got killed (Pat somebody). A guy who went in the military, survived and still got to play in the NFL may be a valuable story, but it apparently wasn't thought to be one that would spark the interest of consumers of infotainment.

I solve this problem by quickly scanning a few different news sites daily and never using this:

[Adam]

Adam, get the fuck over yourself. He celebrated his moment with his significant other, just as sports personalities often do. They hug their wives, girlfriends, parents, old coaches.

I'm sure you can provide lots of examples of that in this draft, right? The crews from ESPN with their cameras in the kitchens of the 278 other players who were drafted before Sam, kissing their wives and girlfriends and smearing cake over each other's faces, then tweeting those pictures out?

There ought to be a shit ton of examples out there. Let's see them.

If it pisses you off to see a happy gay football player celebrate with his boyfriend, try therapy.

Why? My response is utterly, completely, undeniably natural and normal. There's a reason why people are repulsed by that: IT'S. NOT. NORMAL. You can try all you want to pretend that the other 98% of the planet is somehow in the wrong for not gleefully celebrating public displays of homosexuality, but you're never, ever going to change the facts. It is a simple, undeniable, basic fact of reality that the 98% of us who are straight have absolutely no interest in watching two guys kiss one another. People are repulsed by it. Period. Get the fuck over yourself if you cannot fucking deal with simple, basic reality.

It isn't "shoving" anything into anybody's face

The fuck it isn't. It is, you know it is, and Michael Sam sure as HELL knows it is. That's WHY he did it, and that's WHY the media went way, WAY the hell out of their way to make sure that this landed on every TV in America. Don't even bother trying to deny it; it's the modus operandi of the gay mafia: just keep on shoving homosexuality more and more into people's faces and then screech "heretic!" at them if they don't like it.

(certainly no more than Tebow and his ostentatious religiosity, which I believe you defended vigorously)

Actually, no, I never really gave a shit about Tebow one way or the other, but the militant atheists' and Leftist extremists' obsession with him was plenty palpable. It was never any problem for the Leftist extremist militant atheists for this guy to pray:



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but when it's Tim Tebow, then Katie bar the door! That's just HORRIBLE and OFFENSIVE!!!



As usual, if it weren't for double-standards, Leftists wouldn't have any standards at all.

, and it takes nothing away from the other guy.

What other guy? His boyfriend?

You're starting to border on obsession, man. Seriously.

No, actually I'm not. I'm just sick and fucking tired of the gay mafia and their tactics.

[Michele]

Adam, get the fuck over yourself. He celebrated his moment with his significant other, just as sports personalities often do. They hug their wives, girlfriends, parents, old coaches. If it pisses you off to see a happy gay football player celebrate with his boyfriend, try therapy. It isn't "shoving" anything into anybody's face (certainly no more than Tebow and his ostentatious religiosity, which I believe you defended vigorously), and it takes nothing away from the other guy.

You're starting to border on obsession, man. Seriously.

Forget being fair, that's just not true. Except for his most extreme detractors, I doubt anyone who knows or has read about him would use those words to describe Tebow.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

blah blah blah disgusting faggots blah blah

No, actually I'm not. I'm just sick and fucking tired of the gay mafia and their tactics.

QED

[Celeste Chalfonte]

Forget being fair, that's just not true. Except for his most extreme detractors, I doubt anyone who knows or has read about him would use those words to describe Tebow.

Anyone who thinks God (any god) cares about the outcome of a football game is an imbecile. Whether it's a Catholic crossing himself before stepping into the batter's box, Tim Tebow or any other football player ostentatiously kneeling in prayer on the field, or a coach demanding that the players pray together in the locker room, it ought to offend Christians more than it does anyone else.

Matthew 6:5
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

Matthew 6:16
"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

Matthew 23:5
"Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;

But this isn't about Tebow, really. It's about Adam actively seeking out news stories that afford him the opportunity to be publicly offended and feed his increasing paranoia. His drivel about the "gay mafia" is tiresome and I called him on it.

[Adam]

QED

No evidence, just claiming that I said something I didn't say. Got it.

[Michele]

Anyone who thinks God (any god) cares about the outcome of a football game is an imbecile. Whether it's a Catholic crossing himself before stepping into the batter's box, Tim Tebow or any other football player ostentatiously kneeling in prayer on the field, or a coach demanding that the players pray together in the locker room, it ought to offend Christians more than it does anyone else.



But this isn't about Tebow, really. It's about Adam actively seeking out news stories that afford him the opportunity to be publicly offended and feed his increasing paranoia. His drivel about the "gay mafia" is tiresome and I called him on it.

So you know his prayer? And, you know that he was trying to bring attention to himself? I'm always amused when non-believers try to school others on their faith especially someone like yourself, who makes it very well know your disdain for Christianity..or, at least Christianity that isn't the "brand" you could tolerate.

The scripture from Matthew is used frequently by people who are not Christian..and sometimes by ignorant Christians..who believe there should be no praying in public. Can you imagine that God would give Christians such a special gift of communication with Him..prayer..and then say that you should go hide to communicate with Him? No, that would be ridiculous. These verses refer to people who praise and worship..that's what prayer is in the Christian world..for their own recognition. Not all Christians believe that they can only pray on Sundays in church and in the closet the rest of the week.

Back to this kid, I feel the same way as Philly. He was used by espn and the rest of the media as if this were THE most important thing ever. I mean, so important that the president, who can't force himself to talk about the disgraceful and disgusting treatment of our veterans, makes sure he gets in on the first-ever-gay bandwagon thingy by making a personal of congratulations. Now, maybe Michael Sam didn't mind all the "special" hooplala which is fine. He's an adult. I see where Oprah was going to do some sort of show with him but it got out and after the negative publicity, the show has been put on hold. Good for whoever finally figured out it would be a disaster to do that. Hopefully, this young man will buckle down and work for a position on the team and be a team player. But katie-bar-the-door if he doesn't make the team and gets cut. The Rams will be vilified to the nth degree by the pitchfork crowd.

[Adam]

So you know his prayer? And, you know that he was trying to bring attention to himself? I'm always amused when non-believers try to school others on their faith especially someone like yourself, who makes it very well know your disdain for Christianity..or, at least Christianity that isn't the "brand" you could tolerate.

The scripture from Matthew is used frequently by people who are not Christian..and sometimes by ignorant Christians..who believe there should be no praying in public. Can you imagine that God would give Christians such a special gift of communication with Him..prayer..and then say that you should go hide to communicate with Him? No, that would be ridiculous. These verses refer to people who praise and worship..that's what prayer is in the Christian world..for their own recognition. Not all Christians believe that they can only pray on Sundays in church and in the closet the rest of the week.

Back to this kid, I feel the same way as Philly. He was used by espn and the rest of the media as if this were THE most important thing ever. I mean, so important that the president, who can't force himself to talk about the disgraceful and disgusting treatment of our veterans, makes sure he gets in on the first-ever-gay bandwagon thingy by making a personal of congratulations. Now, maybe Michael Sam didn't mind all the "special" hooplala which is fine. He's an adult. I see where Oprah was going to do some sort of show with him but it got out and after the negative publicity, the show has been put on hold. Good for whoever finally figured out it would be a disaster to do that. Hopefully, this young man will buckle down and work for a position on the team and be a team player. But katie-bar-the-door if he doesn't make the team and gets cut. The Rams will be vilified to the nth degree by the pitchfork crowd.

He's a foot-soldier, a willing pawn to be sacrificed on the board.

Michael Sam gets to claim "first," and Jeff Fisher will pretty much never use the guy. He'll play practice squad and bench-warmer until he's finally dropped into free agency with nothing more than the $45K signing bonus that he was guaranteed, and no one else will pick him up again, and he'll be destitute within five years after that. To the gay mafia, this is an acceptable loss, an expected casualty on the battlefield. That he gets used briefly by the media and cast aside is completely fine, because he withers away the remaining 28 years of his life on a used car lot before he finally dies of a drug overdose at age 51. The ultimate irony is that Sam is very likely a very smart guy who could otherwise make a very good life for himself, gay or straight, but he's decided to martyr himself on the altar of special rights for people who choose to be gay. But he advanced one square on the chessboard, so that's OK that he was used.

[Frostbit]

He's a foot-soldier, a willing pawn to be sacrificed on the board.

Michael Sam gets to claim "first," and Jeff Fisher will pretty much never use the guy. He'll play practice squad and bench-warmer until he's finally dropped into free agency with nothing more than the $45K signing bonus that he was guaranteed, and no one else will pick him up again, and he'll be destitute within five years after that. To the gay mafia, this is an acceptable loss, an expected casualty on the battlefield. That he gets used briefly by the media and cast aside is completely fine, because he withers away the remaining 28 years of his life on a used car lot before he finally dies of a drug overdose at age 51. The ultimate irony is that Sam is very likely a very smart guy who could otherwise make a very good life for himself, gay or straight, but he's decided to martyr himself on the altar of special rights for people who choose to be gay. But he advanced one square on the chessboard, so that's OK that he was used.

Next up!!

BALTIMORE – After deciding to enter their horse in the Preakness, owners Steven Brandt and Ric Boylan got to talking over dinner about the possibility their trainer, Linda Rice, might make racing history. Then they wondered: Might they share a first, too, and perhaps a "Michael Sam moment.''
"We thought, 'Wow, it would be great for Linda to be the first woman (trainer) to win a Triple Crown (race)," Brandt said before this week's annual Alibi Breakfast at Pimlico Race Course, where he and Boylan were introduced as owners of Kid Cruz, a 20-1 shot in the morning line.

"And he (Boylan) said, 'Well, you know, we might be, I don't know that we are, but it's quite possible we could the first married gay couple to win a Triple Crown (race) or to even be in one.'

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Hate to break your heart boys but you will not be racing in the Preakness, your horse will and I bet that horse couldn't care less whether you are gay or not. But unfortunately, a lot of horse racing fans will care because now the Preakness will likely not be about horse racing come media circus time. It will be about moving another pawn forward.

[Frostbit]

Villanueva