When you sue your former employer you know shit won't be amicable. But in an age of social media, it's bound to be a dozen times worse. That's what you got on Friday night when the Minnesota Vikings attempted to pass off their internal report into allegations regarding homophobic comments by their Special Teams Coach Mike Priefer. It was all a part of an even bigger headache for the franchise, a lawsuit from former punter Chris Kluwe.
The 29-page document (embedded at the bottom of this page) found that Priefer made a joke to Kluwe (an outspoken proponent of gay marriage) that "We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows." This attempt at shock humor (presumably) will cost him three games via suspension. But the report contends that the Vikings did not cut Kluwe due to his activism, but rather because he was a crappy punter (though they stated it in a slightly nicer fashion).
They further go on to reveal that Kluwe demonstrated his own brand of blue humor including:
That would be Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State coordinator and convicted pedophile, which led to this advice from the Pro Football Talk Twitter account:
Kluwe disregarded that with a few 140 character-or-less mud slings:
But the most interesting tweets (to us anyway) foreshadowed what's to come:
Basically, the NFL is just like your office. You can't make jokes about child rape and nuking a large group of people without raising some eyebrows. Still, it's comforting to know locker rooms don't ever change, no matter how old you are.
That's a silver lining, we guess.
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[via Deadspin]
