Unfortunate Headline Dept, Starring Rudy Gay
Kind of Gay, NBA February 14th. 2008, 9:14am
Props to Ryan over at Hoops Addict for sending this one our way. He found it at NBA.com.
Good to know NBA.com is now employing Tim Hardaway to write headlines. John Amaechi is not thrilled.
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February 14th, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Somewhere in Tampa, Tony Dungy shakes his head in disgust.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Gay means happy. Riiiiiigggghhhhhttttt.
New Orleans passed up Phoenix last night by half a game (even though Phoenix has one more to play tonight)
February 14th, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Good thing his last name isn’t Menspenis
February 14th, 2008 at 9:23 AM
So the pic doesn’t work for me. What does the headline actually say?
February 14th, 2008 at 9:24 AM
I don’t even want to know what the wicked hammer slam is. The damn kids these days and thier crazy gay positions.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:25 AM
@Nick,
“Rudy Feeling Gay in Philly”
February 14th, 2008 at 9:26 AM
If “Rudy’s Feeling Gay in Philly,” why does it appear to me, although it’s hard to tell, that he’s dunking on the Hornets?
February 14th, 2008 at 9:26 AM
That’s quality stuff.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:28 AM
and that looks more like the “wicked layup” than the “wicked hammer slam”
February 14th, 2008 at 9:28 AM
I am totally going to wicked hammer slam my GF tonight, totally.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:32 AM
ESPN just called 9-1-1. Brady Quinn called that highlight a faggot.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Wow, didn’t even put that together – not only is the headline lame, but it’s wrong
February 14th, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Yeah…let’s not get worked up over this. They obviously meant it in the sense of happy.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:37 AM
This whole post is gay
February 14th, 2008 at 9:42 AM
They obviously meant it in the sense of happy.
Yes. And they had no idea that people could possibly interpret the headline another way.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:44 AM
jgp…agreed, and who uses ‘gay’ to mean happy these days?
if someone came up to you and said, “damn, today is a great day, im so gay right now.” what would you think?
February 14th, 2008 at 9:46 AM
It’s quite commonly heard in the bath-houses I frequent.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Baseball, damn it! There’s still a spot left. Someone go fill it, now!
February 14th, 2008 at 9:48 AM
hahaha “gay” hahaha
February 14th, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Ben – Did TBL ever join?
February 14th, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Too bad John Lynch didn’t play in the NBA. Imagine the headline if he got into an altercation with Rudy Gay.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Is George Lynch still in the NBA?
February 14th, 2008 at 9:55 AM
does anyone else find it ironic that this post is all about the word “gay” and one of the Google ads is James Brothers vs. Zac Efron…Who’s Hotter?
February 14th, 2008 at 9:55 AM
The fun we will have when/if Steelers CB William Gay intercepts Brady Quinn. Jokes aplenty… Though I’ve got too much work to do to give this additional thought.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Yes, because they should alter the English language just because people online giggle at gay.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:01 AM
@412: None because a.) Brady Quinn would be the starting QB for the Browns which would piss me off and b.) We’d be losing to the Steelers again.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:06 AM
BraveSrRob…do you call a rooster a Cock anymore? do you call a cat a Pussy? a cigarette a Fag? its not that it should be altered, but the writer of that headline should’ve known how it would’ve been interpreted nowadays.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:10 AM
@BraveSrRob
Pardon me sir, but more than just “people online” giggle at the word gay.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:14 AM
@412,
I’m not sure if he has or not, there are a few names on there that I can’t readily identify from their Yahoo screen name or team name.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:22 AM
WHo is gay after losing to the friggin Sixers ?
February 14th, 2008 at 11:44 AM
@ Magglio: Also 3rd graders.
@Spence: If someone says pussy cat, I don’t laugh. If someone calls a cigerette a fag, I think they’re British. I don’t laugh when people say “the cock crows.” Just because words have been high jacked by slang doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be used in their original meaning. Words should be read in the way they were intended.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:47 AM
@BraveSrRob: Intended by whom? The person using the word, or the original intention of the word? Just for clarity sake, I’m not busting balls.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:51 AM
@Ben and 412: Who is I.C. Weiners and who is GlobexCorp? Could TBL be hidden with another secret identity?
February 14th, 2008 at 11:54 AM
@Hef,
There are a handful of names in there that I don’t recognize, but TBL isn’t one of them yet because after I posted that there were 11 teams in the league, he sent pki and I and e-mail asking if there was still room.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:59 AM
@ Hef: The person using it. Gay can mean homosexual or happy (as it obviously is meant in this case). It just depends on the situation. Also, gay can mean lame (which has led to many fights with idiots about whether I’m being mean to homosexuals if I use it in that context. Answer: no)
February 14th, 2008 at 12:02 PM
But certainly you recognize that when you say “gay” and mean lame, that you are implying that there is a certain lameness about being gay, no? It’s not like the word came out of nowhere and you just happened upon it. Though you mean one thing, you can understand how others can derive another justified) meaning from it.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:02 PM
@Ben, I’ve got the list of who’s who in the league with the exception of those two names.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:10 PM
No more than when i call a homosexual a gay man I mean he’s happy.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:12 PM
But that meaning has fallen out of common use, whereas gay means homosexual to just about everyone of our generation in this country. You don’t exist outside of language and you don’t get to make it up on your own. You participate in the construction but your meaning is built upon (and within) a preexisting one.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Unless of course he actually is happy.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:13 PM
February 14th, 2008 at 12:14 PM
You’re going to get a 911 call about you, 412.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:15 PM
What generation are you speaking of? Gay was used in elementary school before any of us even knew what a homosexual was. This initial use was lame or crappy without any indictment of a lifestyle. Same thing about saying something sucks when you’re 8. You don’t know it implies that it sucks cock. You just think it means something is terrible.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:19 PM
When I was a kid I thought that “communist” meant the same thing as jerk, or asshole because it was always used disparagingly. My friends would call someone a commie because they were acting like a douche. Now that I know what it really means, I realize that I was just a dumb kid who used words I didn’t understand. Same with you and gay. It doesn’t mean lame, it has taken on that meaning by people who understand that it means something “bad” and that by calling someone it, you are insulting them. The word had a meaning (homosexual), and new meaning was added to it by people who may not have known what it meant (every kid who wants to sound tough) but it doesn’t mean lame, or terrible.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:23 PM
All of the comedic goodness has been sucked out of this…
February 14th, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Same way it came to mean homosexual, people started using it in a different way. Language changes. When it first started changing, people probably said the same thing you are. “It doesn’t mean homosexual, you’re trying to make homosexuality sound fine, sound happy.”
I tend not to call homosexuals gay anyway since I don’t differentiate people based on sexuality. If I talk about homosexuality, I say homosexuality. When I call someone gay (in the sense of lame), in no way whatsoever, do I mean homosexual.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Also, Hef, if you want, you can have the last word. I know we’re not going to convince the other and we’ll just go in circles.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Actually, it was probably used disparagingly (since homosexuality has never been considered acceptable) because of how “gay” homosexuals acted (thank you, Oscar Wilde). What I’m saying, and it sounds like you agree with me, is that your definition was created before you understood the meaning of the word (and how it came to mean lame). To claim that it means lame ignores why it took on that meaning in the first place.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:38 PM
I’m not arguing to be a dick. I’m originally from the Boston region and everyone in my family argues whether we’re trying to convince you or if we like you or whatever. Arguing/debating is fun.
And I’m glad you recognize how wrong you are. Talk to you later.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:51 PM
hahahaha you’re an ass
February 14th, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Brave, are you in the fantasy baseball league?
February 14th, 2008 at 1:42 PM
no, I”m not.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:03 PM
get in it then. ONE FUCKING MORE.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:36 PM
“I’m not a big gay guy.” – Rick Majerus
February 14th, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Spence, I don’t know anything about it.