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It hasn’t been a fantastic week for NBC Sports activities soccer analyst Tony Dungy. He made up one-half of maybe probably the most low-energy broadcast group we’ve ever heard on Saturday evening (together with Al Michaels, and has been getting flack for it ever since. Dungy has additionally been getting roasted, and rightly so, by Cyd Zeigler over at OutSports for his ongoing opposition to same-sex marriage. Up to now, Dungy as soon as referred to as brazenly homosexual SEC defensive participant of the yr Michael Sam “a distraction,” (then tried to stroll it again) and has publicly aligned himself with anti-gay people and organizations.
Dungy’s worldview apparently extends to the trans neighborhood as effectively. On Wednesday, Dungy shared a delusion that litter bins are being positioned in faculties for kids that establish as furries, a brain-dead rumor that was debunked months in the past after being unfold as right-wing propaganda, designed to mock kids who establish as one thing aside from the intercourse they have been assigned at start. And Dungy fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
Dungy was responding to this tweet from the Day by day Wire, a conservative information outlet.
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Almost as damning as the tweet is that Tony Dungy attempted to engage in a dialogue with the Daily Wire. If you’ve never heard of the Daily Wire, our heartiest congratulations. All you really need to know is that the site was founded, in part, by Ben Shapiro and calls Jordan Peterson “crucial public mental of our time.” So.
Dungy’s historical past beneath scrutiny
If that is the primary time you’ve heard Dungy referred to as out for alleged homophobia, Ziegler does a very good job of itemizing all of the occasions he ought to have mentioned (or performed) nothing:
The general public debate about Dungy’s anti-gay leanings began in earnest in 2006.
That yr, Dungy was the headliner at a fundraiser for the Indiana Household Institute, whose major goal was to oppose same-sex marriage. The occasion’s invitation featured an image of Dungy teaching an NFL sport in his Colts apparel, with assurances that “a chance to financially help the Indiana Household Institute” can be accessible.
“I respect the stance [IFI is] taking, and I embrace that stance,” Dungy mentioned in the course of the IFI fundraiser of the group’s opposition to same-sex marriage. “IFI is saying what the Lord says. You may take that and make your choice on which manner you wish to be. I’m on the Lord’s aspect.”
In 2013, when NBA participant Jason Collins got here out publicly as homosexual, Dungy mentioned he doesn’t “agree with Jason Collins’ way of life.”
The next yr, after Michael Sam got here out publicly as homosexual and was drafted by the St. Louis Rams, Dungy mentioned he wouldn’t have wished Sam on his group.
“I wouldn’t have taken him,” Dungy mentioned of the Rams drafting Sam. And look forward to it… “I wouldn’t wish to take care of all of it. It’s not going to be completely clean … issues will occur.”
Dungy deleted the tweet, presumably after he noticed the backlash it engendered, however the web by no means forgets.
It’s additionally value noting that NBC Sports activities has but to touch upon Dungy’s habits.
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