Mike Florio Thinks NFL Locker Rooms Need to Be More Like Coal Mines in Welcoming Gay People
Mike Florio appeared on The Joe Rose Show on 560 WQAM Sports Radio in Florida this morning to talk about the NFL Draft. Like most draft-related conversations these days, the topic quickly turned to Manti Te’o and his sexuality. Pro Football Talk’s Florio was surprised to find out that would be such a big topic this week and is optimistic that the climate will change in NFL locker rooms to the point where players can be openly gay.
Florio makes some salient points about teams having to change the culture in the locker room, but around the 2:25 mark in the video, he decides to use coal mines as his example of a post-homophobic Utopian workplace. Okay. Maybe Zoolander did it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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March 1st, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Homer wants to build rockets so he doesn’t have to work in the coalmines.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Velvet Coalmine
March 1st, 2013 at 2:51 PM
So would Manti Te’o qualify as a “coal miner’s daughter,” then?
March 1st, 2013 at 2:53 PM
Brokeback Coalmine
March 1st, 2013 at 2:56 PM
How long until Te’o produces a smoking hot girlfriend to the public? I say five weeks max.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:59 PM
Well, every coal mine includes a shaft, so they’re inherently gay friendly, n’est pas?
March 1st, 2013 at 2:59 PM
moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Also, homosexuality in the coal mines has been linked to black bung disease.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:03 PM
….and jamming to Loverboy – Working for the Weekend
March 1st, 2013 at 3:06 PM
there are only three good loverboy songs (i know, three more than you think)
turn me loose
when it’s over
take me to the top
March 1st, 2013 at 3:07 PM
there are only three good loverboy songs (i know, three more than you think)
turn me loose
when it’s over
take me to the top
March 1st, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Florio has been choking this chicken all week. while he has a point, it isn’t going to happen.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Since this is an internet blog comment section and I’m free to say whatever I feel like – I’m just gonna say it. Getting some guys junk shoved up your poop hole for the sole purpose of giving that other guy pleasure at your expense is not something that makes you tougher, that’s the definition of humiliation. Look at it anyway you want to but if I’m a GM – I want to know that my players are going to be psychologically tough and mentally strong. I also know that my locker room needs to be unified. I know that in a room full of gladiators if one of my guys is getting humiliated in bed each night by his significant other – well – I might just choose to take the next best guy.
I’m being half serious/half joking and I don’t fully believe everything I just said and I’m sure science (or facts) would go against it – but hey – it’s Friday – I’m bored – it’s the internet, and well… anything goes.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Any truth to the rumors that gay coal miners both work and play hard?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:08 PM
Jeff Garcia will be his adviser.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:09 PM
counterpoint: you could say the same thing about licking a chick where she pees. i want a room full of gladiators, not some pussy who holds his wife’s shopping bags.
/stereotypes are fun
//I WANNA TEAM FULL O’ BEARS N’ POWER BOTTOMS
///no homo
March 1st, 2013 at 3:10 PM
Manti, Mike Florio just can’t quit you.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:10 PM
Florio may be from Clarksburg, but I’ll wager he’s never seen the inside of a coal mine.
I’ll wager he has experience with shafts, however.
What I’m saying is, Florio is a cocksucker.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:10 PM
Getting some guys junk shoved up your poop hole for the sole purpose of giving that other guy pleasure at your expense is not something that makes you tougher, that’s the definition of humiliation.
I know you’ve got a qualifier at the end that maybe is an attempt to cancel this but (npi) I don’t think this is why buttsex happens
March 1st, 2013 at 3:10 PM
So…. you didn’t like the show Oz?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:11 PM
it’s funny that the NFL’s bears play like twinks. the browns should change their name to the santorums.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:11 PM
//I WANNA TEAM FULL O’ BEARS N’ POWER BOTTOMS
Being a power bottom does not make you tough, no matter what the mainstream media is teaching our children these days!
March 1st, 2013 at 3:11 PM
Oh like none of you have gotten drunk and fucked a canary. Hypocrites.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:12 PM
but a power bottom makes you fast.
now, dennis, does speed have something to do with it? speed has EVERYTHING to do with it.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:12 PM
So…. you didn’t like the show Oz?
i think he loved it
/spoonman
March 1st, 2013 at 3:12 PM
Oh like none of you have gotten drunk and fucked a canary. Hypocrites.
Not for football purposes, I haven’t.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:12 PM
Jason, ban this gentleman.
/ Mamalickabooty’d
March 1st, 2013 at 3:14 PM
I was reading on Jezebel earlier about how the internal nature of sex for women is a part of the power structure and that a man being penetrated levels the playing field. Interesting read and kind of echoes what you’re saying, except from a bit of a different approach.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:14 PM
Dr or the Wizard?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:14 PM
A zoolander reference and a Always Sunny reference in one thread. Spencer wins the day. Give this man a crown.
And a bong.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:15 PM
I was reading on Jezebel earlier
you probably should have stopped right there
March 1st, 2013 at 3:16 PM
Gaping buttholes is the major source of methane in coal mines.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Whatever, had it been in an oral history of buttfucking in Esquire people here would eat it up.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:20 PM
Getting some guys junk shoved up your poop hole for the sole purpose of giving that other guy pleasure at your expense
i thought the pleasure was two way, some kind of male g-spot in the sfincter making the rogering a win-win
March 1st, 2013 at 3:20 PM
i thought the institution of stricter defensive “rules” was the inception of gayness into the NFL.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:20 PM
meh, not a fan of those “oral history’s.” now, if it were a slow-mo phantom camera video from down the line and face-on for buttfucking that touches on the most efficient biomechanic chain, id dig it up.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:22 PM
Or if it were an episode of “How It’s Made” about buttfucking, with the sweet electronic music behind it.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:22 PM
I think the Marcellus Wallace/Zed section of the Pulp Fiction oral history in Esquire covered that.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:24 PM
you could save yourself 90 minutes by just downloading the power point that they used during the TED discussion on buttfucking.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:25 PM
Since this is an internet blog comment section and I’m free to say whatever I feel like
not to mince metaphors here, but what if you’re the pitcher? and you’re the guy delivering the “humiliation”? would that be seen as a dominant quality GMs are looking for?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:25 PM
Internet Friday’s eh? You could’ve gone with “gays are fucking gay” and that would just about covered it.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:26 PM
Anal sex is all the same in dark and frankly the santorum greased railroad coal bucket tracks. Done San Francisco way the coal would glide out of the mines.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:26 PM
now, if it were a slow-mo phantom camera video from down the line and face-on for buttfucking that touches on the most efficient biomechanic chain, id dig it up.
is that part of the All-2s?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:26 PM
not team players.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:27 PM
nice, you gave me an excuse to post a golf video.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:27 PM
Strong, strong point.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:27 PM
the coal would glide out of the mines.
ewwwww, if i may
March 1st, 2013 at 3:29 PM
also, if you’re bored then go check out Live From Daryl’s House.
http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/archive.html
I HIGHLY recommend the Mayer Hawthorne set.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:31 PM
Whatever, had it been in an oral history of buttfucking in Esquire people here would eat it up.
oh, man, did I miss that?!? who’s got my link?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:32 PM
I prefer Live From Darrell’s House, which is just a livestream of a guy sitting in the corner of a lockerroom with a shotgun fending off all the gay guys trying to get up in his guts.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:34 PM
nice, you gave me an excuse to post a golf video.
his feet pointed out…that normal or a waite trait?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:35 PM
Weird that MikeNYC changed his commenter name.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:36 PM
depends…having your feet flared out like that facilitates more of a turn. i.e. the closer your feet are to 90*, the harder it is to turn in either direction.
the hogan-ites flare their front foot and keep the back foot square…this keeps your hips from rotating too far in your backswing while creating tension between your torso and hips, while flaring the front foot allows the golfer to make an easier turn thru the ball.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:38 PM
But Jared Allen is super into pegging?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:38 PM
vez…as you can see, tiger’s feet are relatively square.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:40 PM
never seen a headcam in golf before. cool
March 1st, 2013 at 3:55 PM
it’s one of the reasons why guys are scared of prostate exams
March 1st, 2013 at 4:57 PM
since when did a wimpy, undersized, middle aged blogger/lawyer become the spokesman for NFL players?
March 1st, 2013 at 5:09 PM
In my house, occupants must be able to see both sides of a debate and argue their point appropriately, as opposed to leaning on their multi cultural lessons and platitudes from grade school.