Last week Seattle Seahawks defensive end Christopher Clemons tweeted his displeasure that an NFL player might come out of the closet, calling it "a selfish act" that will "separate a lockerroom and divide a team".
Wrote Clemons:
Who on Gods earth is this person saying he's coming out of the closet in the NFL? … If you didn't do it when you were in high school or college then why wait til your in the NFL? Whoever he is he didn't just start … I'm not one to judge anyone because that's there personal preference. … it doesn't matter how good they are. That will immediately separate a lockerroom and divide a team … I'm not against anyone but I think it's a selfish act. They just trying to make themselves bigger than the team.
The Seahawks have been silent about Clemons' remarks, so Dominic Holden at Slog contacted them "about a dozen times" and finally heard back:
"We're not going to comment," said Seahawks spokeswoman Suzanne Lavender. "You know, it's just his personal view."
Adds Holden:
"We haven't gotten that many fan comments so we are not going to make public comment," Lavender explained. But she refused to provide a phone number or an e-mail for the fans to comment. So apparently this is how it works: The team gauges whether it needs to make a statement based on how many fans comment, but—pysch—there's no way for fans to comment.
After Holden provided a link to the contact page info for the team management, they took it down!
So he has kindly provided one at their site. We'll see how this develops.
