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2 minutes ago, Clyde Smith said:

I think it was a TE in the late nineties I believe. He used to wear eye shadow and paint his nails🤔

I forget the member of Kiss that played TE during that time. I believe he was cut and converted back to being straight when he no longer did the eye shadow and nails 

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3 hours ago, Augie said:

 

If nothing else, it’s made me think even a bit more favorably about Bruce. 

 

The side benefit is there are going to be some people out there who will start guessing who it was! Who cares? Go chase that tail!!!  :)

 

 

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 Bruce. gentle giant.
Good words from a wise man
 

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2 hours ago, Rico said:

Just a hunch...

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9 minutes ago, Solomon Grundy said:

Nah, not “the pitbull”

 

People who cannot grow mullets assume those who can are strange.

 

Personally I find completely shaved bald heads strange since the one time my head was shaved (I was drunk and my marine students thought it would be funny) I was told my head looks like a mine fields from all of the divots, scars and bumps from football, accidents and surgeries from benign cysts I get from sunshine.  

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20 minutes ago, Clyde Smith said:

I think it was a TE in the late nineties I believe. He used to wear eye shadow and paint his nails🤔

 

Sheldon Jackson.  Not saying he was but that's the guy to whom you're referring.

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If he ain't hitting on me why the ***** 1) would I care? 2) would it be any of my goddamn business who my teammates *****? I'm sure Rachel Bush is a bigger pain in the balls to tolerate than this random dude 

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3 hours ago, T master said:

I long for the good old days when you could watch a sport and just watch the sport you were interested in for the game rather than all the other BS of every day life just to get a couple of hrs to leave all that aside .

 

 

 

 

Yeah I long for the "good old days" where people had to pretend to be straight just to play a football game... NOT. Maybe if that wasn't the case it wouldn't be that big of a deal now. Had enough of that DADT BS while I was in and its just plain ignorant and stupid to stop anyone from doing what they do best because of who they sleep with... asinine

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52 minutes ago, Victory Formation said:

I don’t like the idea of judging people unless they did something terribly wrong. People change. Grow up.

Drinking and driving is one of the most selfish things a person can do…doing it 3 times is indefensible.  This coming from someone who has lost friends due to drunk drivers.  DUI is by all accounts “terribly wrong”.

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5 hours ago, Patrick_Duffy said:

True, but just thought was interesting due to being the 90's. I mean I feel like it's accepted a lot more now compared to then. I would guess anyway.

 

Possibly, according on what social group you ran with though. Homosexual/gays were pretty common in the 90's just not mainstream. 

 

Most of the time though no one cared. You will always have people who hate others just because they are hateful, but most of the time people just want to live. Couldn't care less what others do in their private life. 

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5 hours ago, T master said:

I long for the good old days when you could watch a sport and just watch the sport you were interested in for the game rather than all the other BS of every day life just to get a couple of hrs to leave all that aside .

 

 

 

 

 

You can still do that.  This is a discussion forum...not the actual sports broadcast.

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The original Bruce Smith video is here:

 

Not that it matters, but since people are speculating here, at 2:16 of the video above, Bruce says the player played on the Bills in the mid- to late-90's. He also there there might have been two such players on the team. Shouldn't be news, but it is, unfortunately, in this day and age still, so much so that TMZ had to "break" this story.

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8 hours ago, Augie said:

This has not been handled as maturely as I had hoped. 

 

I don’t care who it was, I’m just glad it wasn’t a big deal. 

 

Period. 

 

This is how "not a big deal" it was.  The player in question's best friend on the team was also the biggest womanizer on the team.  (Neither player has been mentioned this thread.)  So, there was sort of a pleasant, harmless joke that these two guys were on each end of the "spectrum."  It was told to me that way to illustrate the point that nobody cared then.  In my view, nobody should care now.  None of us should judge who makes another person happy.  

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11 hours ago, Rick 'r Mortis said:

I could see Bruce and Daryl going at it.

 

See now DT was the first Bill that popped into my mind....just based on the several times I saw him outside of the game at various events.....super super nice guy.

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8 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

why?

 

Because by narrowing it down to a team and time period it goes from "that's good to hear" to "I wonder who it was?"  My second thought after I heard he said this is "I wonder if the player or players are OK with him revealing this?"  

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I served with multiple openly gay/lesbian brothers and sisters in arms in the late 90’s to late 2000s. Before it was “legal”.  Again no one cared. 
 

I think in situations where you work as a team in high stress environments, all you care about is capability, not their “turn ons and turn offs”. You honestly don’t have time to care about that other stuff. 
 

I think an NFL locker room is similar to a military unit in that regard. 
 

Great to see / hear. 

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35 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

Because by narrowing it down to a team and time period it goes from "that's good to hear" to "I wonder who it was?"  My second thought after I heard he said this is "I wonder if the player or players are OK with him revealing this?"  

I also wonder if the player(s) would agree with Bruce’s assessment that it was no big deal. 

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13 minutes ago, transient said:

I also wonder if the player(s) would agree with Bruce’s assessment that it was no big deal. 

 

Like anything there would be people who would agree and people who would not.....

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13 hours ago, Putin said:

Was 90’s really that long ago ? God I’m getting old 

80's music is not the oldies! When did I become my parents!

9 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

R u kidding me ?? 

 

That Joe dirt vibe screams I love woman and I 69 

 

Matter fact , can't believe that isn't his number

It's a good cover. No ***** bro!

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2 hours ago, Doc said:

 

Because by narrowing it down to a team and time period it goes from "that's good to hear" to "I wonder who it was?"  My second thought after I heard he said this is "I wonder if the player or players are OK with him revealing this?"  

 

 

Revealing what?  He named no names.  And who cares anyway?

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14 hours ago, Doc said:

The sentiment was well-meant, but he shouldn't have said "the Bills" and instead should have said "in the league."

Bruce was in the Bills locker room, not another team's.  He was saying that when you are trying to win as a team, nobody cares what you do off the field (unless, like Bruce it leads to a suspension).  

 

This is not true in all locker rooms.  I read a story when Glen Parker was with the Giants he had some problems with some of his more religious teammates because he is an atheist.  

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30 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

Revealing what?  He named no names.  And who cares anyway?

 

Some probably do and that's why I was asking if the person or people to whom he was referring cared.

 

Did you think your "So...Bruce?" comment was funny?

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