01/11/2008
NFL Defensive Tackle Warren Sapp Retires After 'Gay Porn' Incident
At the end of December during his second-to-last game, Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Warren Sapp, who announced his retirement on Thursday after 13 years in the NFL, was fined $75,000 for a confrontation with officials which led to his ejection from the Raiders-Jaguars match-up.
In discussing the incident with Sports Illustrated, Sapp unearthed a euphemism, which up till now I hadn't heard before.
Said Sapp: "It was something that was really, really on the edge of like, gay porn. When it's real bad football, that's what we call it: gay porn. Something you just don't want to watch. Something you just don't want to see on TV. Something you don't even want to talk about. That's gay porn."
That said, I've changed my mind and I'm hoping Tom Brady and Brett Favre play a lot of real bad football in the playoffs.
(via deadspin)
UPDATE: I've been told that Sapp's "gay porn" comments may be about a year old, something not noted in the deadspin or realests posts. So, of course, it's entirely possible he may have grown comfortable to taking it in by this point.
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Ah Jamie, Try thinking with the other head. You know, the bigger one, not Mr. Little.
Posted by: rudy | Jan 13, 2008 4:04:47 PM
That's funny, I always call bad porn "football" cause it's boring and unwatchable.
Posted by: wetcnt | Jan 13, 2008 5:30:35 PM
This is actually one I heard a lot in my military days. Meant to be used in the same context as "a train wreck". "It was like watching gay porn. I knew I shouldn't, but I couldn't help myself." I was once at a party in an apartment shared by two ex-marine investment bankers. The TV was on public access gay porn and the channel didn't change all night.
Posted by: Celtiberius | Jan 14, 2008 1:49:31 AM
Leave it to a man who get paid to roll around with sweaty guys and take showers with other men on a daily basis to say some shit like this.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE WATCHING GAY PORN WHY DO YOU TALK ABOUT IT SO DAMN MUCH YOU FUCKING RETAERD?
"We say GAY PORN all the time, because we dont like talking about gay porn!!!"
what a fuckin dumbass... oh yea... let me spell this out...
THE GAYEST THINGS IN AMERICA:
1.) Gay Porn
2.) Wrestling / MMA
3.) Football
The biggest audience in ALL of these are repressed homos.
Posted by: Bron | Jun 29, 2008 1:03:03 AM