It hasn’t been an awesome week for NBC Sports soccer analyst Tony Dungy. He made up one-half of maybe probably the most low-energy broadcast workforce we’ve ever heard on Saturday night time (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. In the previous, Dungy as soon as known as overtly homosexual SEC defensive participant of the 12 months 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 nicely. On Wednesday, Dungy shared a delusion that litter bins are being positioned in faculties for kids that determine 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 determine as one thing apart from the intercourse they have been assigned at delivery. And Dungy fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
Dungy was responding to this tweet from the Daily 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 “the most important public intellectual of our time.” So.
Dungy’s historical past beneath scrutiny
If that is the primary time you’ve heard Dungy known as out for alleged homophobia, Ziegler does job of itemizing all of the occasions he ought to have stated (or accomplished) nothing:
The public debate about Dungy’s anti-gay leanings began in earnest in 2006.
That 12 months, Dungy was the headliner at a fundraiser for the Indiana Family Institute, whose main goal was to oppose same-sex marriage. The occasion’s invitation featured an image of Dungy teaching an NFL recreation in his Colts apparel, with assurances that “an opportunity to financially support the Indiana Family Institute” can be accessible.
“I appreciate the stance [IFI is] taking, and I embrace that stance,” Dungy stated throughout the IFI fundraiser of the group’s opposition to same-sex marriage. “IFI is saying what the Lord says. You can take that and make your decision on which way you want to be. I’m on the Lord’s side.”
In 2013, when NBA participant Jason Collins got here out publicly as homosexual, Dungy stated he doesn’t “agree with Jason Collins’ lifestyle.”
The following 12 months, after Michael Sam got here out publicly as homosexual and was drafted by the St. Louis Rams, Dungy stated he wouldn’t have needed Sam on his workforce.
“I wouldn’t have taken him,” Dungy stated of the Rams drafting Sam. And watch for it… “I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it. It’s not going to be totally smooth … things will happen.”
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 has but to touch upon Dungy’s habits.