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Madden: Stewart rumor was ... just a rumor
Saturday, January 05, 2002
"That rumor wasn't true, bro."
With that quote in ESPN The Magazine, Kordell Stewart finally addressed in public a rumor that had swept the nation and become an oft-repeated part of local lore. Stewart denied that he's gay.
It's kind of ironic Stewart quashed that allegation now, because the rumor had all but disappeared. Hey, you don't suppose the rumor is dead because Stewart is playing well this season, do you? At any rate, anyone with a brain had deduced that the rumor was false about 10 seconds after hearing it.
There was supposedly a police report that detailed Stewart "being caught" indulging his alternative lifestyle in public. Ridiculous. I guarantee such a report would have found its way into a newspaper's hands. If Stewart had a former homosexual lover out there, said lover would have likely come forward and cashed in with the National Enquirer. There is a lot more money to be made exposing a story like this than there is to be made covering it up.
So, the rumor never had any logical possibility of being true. You should have known that when you heard it involved an easily recognizable figure having gay sex in a public place. Not the best way to stay in the closet, which a gay professional athlete would have to do. The locker rooms and grandstands of the American sporting world aren't ready for a known gay athlete in team sports. They might never be.
Stewart has addressed the rumor and denied it. That should be the final nail in the rumor's coffin.
But where did the rumor come from?
It obviously started in Pittsburgh. The rumor is perhaps the biggest indictment of what a cruel town this can be, with overtones that are not only homophobic but racist, too.
Madden: Stewart rumor was ... just a rumor
Saturday, January 05, 2002
"That rumor wasn't true, bro."
With that quote in ESPN The Magazine, Kordell Stewart finally addressed in public a rumor that had swept the nation and become an oft-repeated part of local lore. Stewart denied that he's gay.
It's kind of ironic Stewart quashed that allegation now, because the rumor had all but disappeared. Hey, you don't suppose the rumor is dead because Stewart is playing well this season, do you? At any rate, anyone with a brain had deduced that the rumor was false about 10 seconds after hearing it.
There was supposedly a police report that detailed Stewart "being caught" indulging his alternative lifestyle in public. Ridiculous. I guarantee such a report would have found its way into a newspaper's hands. If Stewart had a former homosexual lover out there, said lover would have likely come forward and cashed in with the National Enquirer. There is a lot more money to be made exposing a story like this than there is to be made covering it up.
So, the rumor never had any logical possibility of being true. You should have known that when you heard it involved an easily recognizable figure having gay sex in a public place. Not the best way to stay in the closet, which a gay professional athlete would have to do. The locker rooms and grandstands of the American sporting world aren't ready for a known gay athlete in team sports. They might never be.
Stewart has addressed the rumor and denied it. That should be the final nail in the rumor's coffin.
But where did the rumor come from?
It obviously started in Pittsburgh. The rumor is perhaps the biggest indictment of what a cruel town this can be, with overtones that are not only homophobic but racist, too.
