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TexasTowelie

(112,204 posts) Wed Sep 7, 2016, 03:36 AM Sep 2016

Will Troy Aikman Beat Up New Co-Worker Skip Bayless for Calling Him Gay?

Former Dallas Cowboys QB and current Fox Sports lead NFL analyst Troy Aikman is none too pleased that Fox has given sports commentator Skip Bayless his own show, no doubt because Bayless has repeatedly insisted that Aikman is gay.

Bayless first made the claims about Aikman in a 1996 book he wrote called Hell-Bent: The Crazy Truth About the ‘Win or Else’ Dallas Cowboys.

Aikman has denied that he is gay and has reportedly been incensed by the suggestion since the 1990s.

Now that the two will be working at the same network, Aikman has blasted Fox for hiring Bayless.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2016/09/troy-aikman-gay/

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Will Troy Aikman Beat Up New Co-Worker Skip Bayless for Calling Him Gay? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP

Apparently he didn't actually do that--though it has been reported that he did. MADem Sep 2016 #1

Aikman may not be gay, but he is an asshole and joeybee12 Sep 2016 #2

Yeah, fuck Troy Aikman. Iggo Sep 2016 #3

Is that completely terrible? Lucky Luciano Sep 2016 #5

It's not a fucking choice. (n/t) Iggo Sep 2016 #6

Ah ok. Got it. nt Lucky Luciano Sep 2016 #7

Then according to the link in post 1, you have to say fuck Skip Bayless too mythology Sep 2016 #8

"Fuck Skip Bayless" is a given. (n/t) Iggo Sep 2016 #10

Seriously? That is so Junior High School. Auggie Sep 2016 #4

Give both of them chainsaws and lock them in a cage Goblinmonger Sep 2016 #9

Only on Fox! TexasTowelie Sep 2016 #11

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. Apparently he didn't actually do that--though it has been reported that he did.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 04:34 AM

Sep 2016

Here's the full background on that matter:

https://theringer.com/what-skip-bayless-really-wrote-about-troy-aikman-8aade8f5a612#.w43vpd2ga

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

2. Aikman may not be gay, but he is an asshole and

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:08 AM

Sep 2016

Homophobe. The two deserve each other.

Iggo

(47,554 posts)

3. Yeah, fuck Troy Aikman.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 12:56 PM

Sep 2016

"If that is a lifestyle people choose, so be it. It doesn’t affect me one way or another. But it is not my lifestyle."

Drop dead, homophobe.

Lucky Luciano

(11,257 posts)

5. Is that completely terrible?

Reply to Iggo (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 07:29 PM

Sep 2016

It's true - it doesn't affect him one way or another. Others can do as they please, but it goes have a tinge of homophobia.

Iggo

(47,554 posts)

6. It's not a fucking choice. (n/t)

Reply to Lucky Luciano (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 07:36 PM

Sep 2016

Lucky Luciano

(11,257 posts)

7. Ah ok. Got it. nt

Reply to Iggo (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:01 PM

Sep 2016

mythology

(9,527 posts)

8. Then according to the link in post 1, you have to say fuck Skip Bayless too

Reply to Iggo (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:26 PM

Sep 2016

what with him saying the same thing about sexual preference. Not to mention Bayless is the one who decided it was worthwhile to print rumors (with the same sort of some people say that Trump uses to hint about things without directly saying it) which means that at the very least Bayless thought it was appropriate to try to out somebody.

Aikman is wrong for saying being gay is a choice. But Bayless is the one who used rumors of it to sell his column which I regard as ethically worse.