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Just because his team has been a disaster this year doesn't mean that Steelers linebacker/insano Joey Porter can't still stir some shit up. Yesterday, Porter apologized for calling Kellen Winslow a "fag."
"You know, that was probably a poor choice of words. So if I offended anybody, I apologize for that...I don't know ... I guess because how we used that word freely, me growing up using that word, I didn't think anything of it. Like I said, I apologize to anyone I may have offended. I didn't mean to offend anybody but Kellen Winslow. That's pretty much that. I don't want to put any more into it...Whatever I say is going to be on an extra level anyway. But like I said, I didn't think it was that big of a deal when I said it anyway. So it's over with it."
We love that Porter says he only meant to offend Winslow by calling him a "fag;" as Michael Scott put it, "You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded. And I consider Oscar a friend." We also enjoyed the ESPN story about this, which contained the following quote: "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the slur Porter used is a derogatory term sometimes uttered to describe homosexual men." Nance? Pegboy? Which was it? (There are tons here.) We think it's possible that Joey is just a little, oh, confused.
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Comments
sounds kinda gay to me
aww, Winslow's just Joey's ganymede
Does "You know how I know you're gay" apply here?
Was this picture chosen because of Porter exposing his midriff or Ocho Cinco standing hand on hip staring at it?
Winslow is keeping to the "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy...
Porter is keeping to the "Don't know, Don't care" policy
I think he meant to say Warrior but it just came out wrong.
Come on, he's not a homophobe. Two or three of his best friends are gay (points at "her").
BTDubs, Will, that "tons here" link is very NSFMyEyes. Thanks a lot!
"I couldn't be more proud of my star apprentice" - Ozzie Guillen
i dunno, i've never seen K2 grab another man & kiss him.
And here I thought he was talking about British cigarettes. Silly me!
by saying i didn't mean to offend anyone EXCEPT winslow (by calling him a "fag") - that actually makes it MORE offensive.
just say this: i'm sorry. i was wrong. it won't happen again.
END OF STORY!!!!
Warrior might have made sense... but Winslow is a "f-cking SOLDIER!!!"
Winslow shouldn't be offended by that. Its true right? Its like if I called Porter a ni.... Oh, wait...
See we all just learned a lesson there didn't we.
I know some gay people who were genuinely offended by this statement. I'm on their side, they "play" through way more pain the Winslow ever will.
If Porter played in the NBA, you think Stern would let him cut his jersey into a half shirt?
Kellen Winslow: Balloon Dot Soldier
I didn't mean to offend anybody but Kellen Winslow.
Best apology ever.
I didn't mean to offend anybody, except for black people.
-- Michael Richards
I think Porter looks quite fetching in that belly shirt. But yellow pants are sooooo 1989.
It's offensive? Joey Porter opens his mouth and it's cause for pain? I'm not buying it. The only way a word has power over someone is for them to grant it power.
As for K-2 he's a pussy. But his sexual orientation is beyond doubt; he loves horses.
"Kellen Winslow is f*cking FABULOUS!" -JP
joey porter will never be welcome at The Laugh Factory again!
We didn't mean to offend anyone, except for the batshit crazy folks
-- Deadspin commenters to the Barbaro message board
By the way, is the Pittsburgh paper the biggest PC piece of crap out there? Remember, this is the rag that changed brain fart to brain [cramp] in a quote earlier this NFL season.
I think that newspaper is run by a bunch of derogatory terms sometimes uttered to describe homosexual men.
Right after calling Winslow a fag, Porter ran to the sidelines and kissed Bill Cowher again.
Anyone else notice the Barbaro board hasn't updated in nearly 24 hours?
I need my Dee Mirch, and I need it now!
I didn't me to offend anybody except the Sh'ites, Kurds, and America.
Saddam
There's a model for an apolgy for the Barbaro forum inbreds here somehere in this.
If I had killed anyone, I didn't mean to kill anyone, except for Nicole and the Goldman kid
-- OJ
Winslow better hope his commanding officer doesn't hear about this.
* mean
It's best to write "mean" when you mean it.
in all fairness to Joey, he does have some experience in this department.
By the way, is the Pittsburgh paper the biggest PC piece of crap out there? Remember, this is the rag that changed brain fart to brain [cramp] in a quote earlier this NFL season.
They're catering to their reading public. The citizens of Pittsburgh are very sensitive people.
Joey Porter is a 'guy's guy.'
- Kordell Stewart
"I said I'm proud to be a C-S-U Ram!"
Go State.
What person in an NFL stadium would be offended by that? The male cheerleaders? They call each other fags! They're the gayest people in the planet Earth, besides that weirdo on "America's Next Top Model" and Mike Piazza.
Michael Vick says, "People who know Kellen Winslow, they know how he get down."
"Did you know that gay used to mean happy? When I was growing up it meant 'lame'. And now it means a man who makes love to other men. We're all homos. Homo sapiens."
I'm sorry for going all the way to the jelly. I should have known half way was more than enough. - USC Trojan Fan
on the same day we read a John Rocker interview...
is today inverse tolerance day or something?
maybe Will should line up an interview with Joey Porter just as a convenient bookend to the whole thing (while someone keeps a close eye on Porter's dogs).
I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just wanted to hurt the USC fan.
--UCLA Fan
Sensitive people need to stay away from life. Everyone is equally worthless and beneath contempt-why not make fun of everyone.
There's an NFL team that has male cheerleaders?
[waiting for 49'ers joke...]
Earlier this year Porter said,
"I'm sorry about the actions of my dogs. I didn't mean for them to kill anything except for the miniature horse."
Jay Mariotti demands an apology.
kissing Cowher is mans work and should not be left in the delicates hands of women, or fags.
Still waiting for the definition of a ruralsexual...
Is ruralsexual really that difficult to understand? Think metrosexual. Then, think the opposite.
The Wolf says: Jay Mariotti demands an apology.
You're only making jay more famous!
You know that stupid Fox robot football player? Does anyone else think it's supposed to be Joey Porter?