Great NY Times article about Chris Kluwe

MINNEAPOLIS — It was a Saturday night in early October and the temperature was below freezing. A half-hour before team curfew, Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and unlikely voice of the national same-sex marriage debate, was polishing off a family-size box of Gobstopper candy, reluctant to leave band practice.

Earlier, while driving to rehearsal at a wasp-infested warehouse in a dicey north Minneapolis neighborhood, Kluwe said, “Football is what I do for a living, but it’s not even remotely who I am.”

Despite the unseasonably frigid air, he was wearing a World of Warcraft baseball cap backward, a Nice Vibe T-shirt, low-slung jeans and sandals.

“I only wear shoes when it’s absolutely necessary,” Kluwe, a native Californian, said. “Otherwise, it’s sandals or, when I’m forced to, boots.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/sports/football/punter-chris-kluwes-voice-is-heard-in-same-sex-marriage-debate.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0