As of right now, as I am typing these words, Lavar Arrington has been apoplectic in his twisted overreaction to the declaration by Michael Sam about his personal life choices. He, Arrington, has been ranting and raving incoherently about everything football and personal between the WHY Michael Sam felt the need to come out at this present time... to the paranoid delusional thinking that Michael Sam has to have some kind of diabolical hidden agenda in outing himself in this time of Republican style homophobia and race baiting.
Arrington's biggest problem with Sam's decision is WHY he felt the need to come out NOW!
Lavar Arrington says he is a straight man. Every excoriation of Michael Sam's personal decisions have been spewed by Arrington FROM HIS, ARRINGTON'S, PERSPECTIVE! Arrington says, paraphrasing, 'I would have done this and I would have done that and I would have done the other at this, that and the other time.'
How about this, Lavar Arrington... Michael Sam is a grown-ass man! He decided to come out when he did because... imagine this concept... BECAUSE HE WANTED TO! It is as simple as that. And what in the hell does his time tables of life have to do with you? Your playing days are behind you. Sam's playing days are ahead of him. Let the 24 year old man be a MAN and take the life he owns and... shape it the way he wants to.
Arrington, what in the hell does anything Sam does with his life have to do with you and your acid-trip speed demon homophobia as you cry bloody murder!
Today, about 25 minutes ago, Arrington told the most hellish personal story of the self-indulgent me me me athelete I have ever heard. I almost did not believe what I heard.
This story is told as Arrington is trying to make another bizarre point about Sam's life.
Arrington says: When he was in the 4th(?) grade there was a teacher who rode him to conform! Arrington hated this teacher because he believed this teached rode him too hard. Later in life, when this teacher is on her death bed, some people tell him that he should visit her.
Arrington continues: Because he held a long time grudge against this teacher, as an adult he decided that he was NOT going to visit this teacher. Why? Because just because he is well known, that doesn't mean he has to capitulate to others.
(This is not a direct quote! I am paraphrasing the story from my memory almost an hour later. If Arrington ever decides to contest what I have just written, I will tell him to go to the GODDAMN tape!)
I applaud the intelligent athlete. I will listen to the intelligent athlete. But everyone should know this... like crazy politicians with their horrible ignorant notions of the way everybody should lead their lives, many athletes have spent a decade trying to devote themselves to their cause... football. Many of them learn stuff and are very smart. But, many of them are NOT smart, at all. They have zero common sense, little grasp of history and are just coming to terms with the real world as they leave football.
And so, some of them get out there and run their mouths... showing their ignorance of most things not football related. Many of them have some cash to get them started in life. And, many of them go on to do productive things. But when it comes to talking to the public about the personal caveats of life... they are very ignorant.
And Lavar Arrington, along with his co-host, show what stupid ignorance looks like every afternoon they are on the air. And I just heard the atom bomb drop from Arrington's mouth a few minutes ago.
The funny thing about my little rant right here... I do not expect these thoughts to go very far. I am listening to the Lavar Arrington Show right now to keep my enemies close... and not ONE person has called in to the radio show to complain about Arrington's insensitivity!
Thank god Arrington was not blasting Native Americans again. Maybe, he has learned a few lessons there. But this gay issue? Arrington keeps talking about his Christian values, even as he tries to awkwardly question the motivations of Gay people.
Come on, Lavar... just admit the reason you are freaking out about this subject. You are anti-gay... your Christian values will not allow you to be anything else, RIGHT? Admit what you are and free your mind and your soul.
Oh, by the way... you are pure evil, even as you espouse your Christianity. A true Christian would have NEVER LET OUT THAT EVIL STORY YOU TOLD ABOUT YOUR EVIL LIFE!
Period!
RLJ
