Are 2008 Superbowl Contenders The NY Giants Hiding Gays In Their Locker Room?
This Sunday is D-Day for Superbowl XLII, where the country gathers around the television to watch two teams of tough, rugged, trained and taut manly men compete in the testosterone-laden game of football. There's no room for "gay stuff" in this game, ok? Oh, maybe not ok.
According to this article, one of the teams competing in this year's championship at UP's Football Stadium has some not-so-out gay guys on their team. That's not all, there's said to be at least a 15% rate of gay men playing in the professional league today. Gives a new meaning to towel-snapping in the locker room.
The author Ian Halperin (my guest on last Sunday's radio show and author of Hollywood Undercover) drops another bomb about one more lucrative American institution which is attempting to hide its anti-gay attitudes. We can certainly understand why. With as much money as the NFL generates in advertising revenue, franchise rights, and merchandising it's no wonder they want to keep it's membership in the "gay" club a secret. Here's what Forbes had to say about the NFL's financials:
The National Football League is the most valuable and profitable team sport in the world. This year the average team is worth $733 million, a 17% increase over last year. Operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) for the 32 teams came in at $851 million on revenue of $5.3 billion, an operating margin of 16%. Baseball teams come the closest in valuations to football, with an average value of $295 million (see: "The Business Of Baseball"). When we last looked at the National Basketball Association, the second most profitable sport, the league's operating margin was only 6.5% (see: "The Business Of Basketball").The league's national television contract ($17.6 billion over eight years) is responsible for the NFL's rich team valuations, and a cap on player salaries of no more than 65% of specified revenue explains the fat margin.
That's not chump change, and one can only speculate how the average "male" would respond to knowing some his favorite players are in fact, playing for the same team, so to speak. Here's what Ian revealed to Queerty:
We’ve always thought American football to be a little faggy and now we have the totally unsubstantiated proof! Scientology exposer Ian Halperin - who infiltrated the “religion†by posing as a gay actor looking for a queer cure - tells us that a footballer basically outed the entire National Football League, especially the NY Giants: Continued on the next pagePage 1 2
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