Did ESPN Get All Brokeback With a Dungy Headline?
ESPN, Kind of Gay, Movies, NFL January 22nd. 2008, 10:21am
Googling around for blogger perspective on Tony Dungy’s decision to remain the coach of the Indianapolis Colts, we stumbled upon this reaction to ESPN’s front-page headline (for at least six hours Monday), Dungy Can’t Quit Colts: “Is that a reference to Brokeback Mountain for the notoriously anti-gay coach? Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it seems like a strange turn of phrase for the Disney company. It doesn’t appear anywhere in the story.”
We haven’t seen the movie, but after asking the wife and surfing the net, the editor who wrote the headline seems to be a) a Zepplein fan or b) taking a swipe at Dungy. If you’re wondering, no, Dungy did not use that phrase during the press conference.
Tony Dungy is working on the Lord’s behalf (a robot, piece of sloan)
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20 Responses to “Did ESPN Get All Brokeback With a Dungy Headline?”
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January 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Usually I think people are just trying to find ways to slam ESPN but I believe there is truth to this one. I remember reading that headline and finding it very odd.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Damn…I’m getting a visual of Coach Dungy crying as he smells Peyton’s jersey in his closet.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Dungy is like Chris Cooper in American Beauty. He is so anti-gay he may end up actually liking men, crying as he kisses Peyton in the rain.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 AM
I laughed when I first saw it this morning. Absolutely deliberate. And the first funny thing that dry, humorless corporate behemoth has done in years.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 AM
i had no idea that dungy was anti-gay. him and peyton manning must be at odds all the time. hey-oh!
actually, i bet his being anti-gay had everything to do with his kid killing himself. totally serious. i wish i knew this in 2005.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 AM
That’s so gay
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 AM
maybe the copy editor is a zepplin fan. i have to apologize, i don’t get the brokeback reference. haven’t seen the movie; don’t plan to (the only western i like is blazing saddles).
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 AM
thats pretty harsh to say about his kid killing himslef there lozo
thats low
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 AM
One of the gays says to the other gay:
“I wish I could quit you!!!!!!!!”
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Fuck this shit. I don’t understand any of this gay shit.
/Tim Hardaway
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 AM
At one point during the baseball season, ESPN had this headline up (albeit for a very short time) when the Yanks swept the Sox in a series:
Yankees wave magic Wang and sweep Red Sox
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Hahaha Franklin, I will never forget that headline.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Irish, I think I read that different than you. No one knows why the kid killed himself, but you never know maybe he WAS having thoughts like that. Knowing your dad is against that lifestyle could have really screwed that kid up more than he already was.
Unless of course Lozo was just being a dick. never know.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 AM
BTW – I wasn’t entirely sure he was antigay really either. Then again, I don’t read much of dungy.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:45 AM
I didn’t get a gay undertone from that headline. Now, the headline in the New York Post, “Dungy Can’t Stop Fucking Colts In Ass” was a little questionable, in my opinion.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:55 AM
They could just get rid of all these lame-ass headlines altogether, and I would be happy. I don’t need to see another “Houston, We Have a Problem” headline the next time a Houston team loses. Or “Remember the Titans” when Tennessee wins.
What the Hell is wrong with a headline that reads “Dungy Stays With Colts?” Seriously? Are people more likely to click on a lame-ass headline and I just don’t get it?
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Bobb gets me. why doesn’t the irish mob get me?
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Did Dungy say he hated gay people or wished them harm? That would certainly be an anti gay position. If he doesn’t want a man or woman to marry a horse is he anti horse?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 PM
I believe Dungy helped to finanicially support a group that was definitely anti-gay. Kinda creepy, if you ask me.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 PM
More Brokeback in the news…Heath Ledger was found dead today. Damn. Decent actor. Too young.
And so, a gay (not that HL was himself homersexual) day at TBL ends.