Joe Louis never went through this. Neither did Jackie Robinson. But apparently you haven’t made it as a Black athlete today until you’re accused of being gay.Some scumbag with an agenda or a vendetta or just out to shake things up comes along and says, “Tag: You’re gay,” and he says it on the internet and boom, that’s it—there goes a man’s reputation. At least for a week. As Harlan Ellison once quipped to me, the internet is the greatest villain of the 21st Century because it makes all information suspect.
This just happened to Atlanta Falcon’s fullback Ovie Mughelli. A nameless maggot pops up out of the dirt and tags the big man with the stigma just to hurt this football pro’s rep and before you know it, it’s a running wildfire on the Black Gay Chat boards and a few celeb-wanna-be gossip blogs. Why? Because people without real lives—the sycophants and bottom-feeders—to say nothing of those with a must-politicize-my-perversion agenda—are willing to take any goddamn piece of gross gossip without validation or proof and run it up the fagpole… er flagpole.
Face it home boys: The worst thing you can call a Black athlete is gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, hahaha.
Fortunately, big Ovie didn’t take the bait, didn’t dignify the no-name who allegedly “outed him”. I suspect he’s too busy with the ladies to pay it any mind. Reminds me of a joke about the Pope.
Bottom line: If you believe half the things people say about your favorite athletes, you’re a bigger fool than the people saying it. I just listened to Ovie’s agent, Todd France, brush the whole thing off on 790 the Zone. No big deal, said France. Just another day in the life of an agent. But this small voice is sick of internet graffiti.
Photo of Ovie Mughelli. If this is gay, sign me up!
This just happened to Atlanta Falcon’s fullback Ovie Mughelli. A nameless maggot pops up out of the dirt and tags the big man with the stigma just to hurt this football pro’s rep and before you know it, it’s a running wildfire on the Black Gay Chat boards and a few celeb-wanna-be gossip blogs. Why? Because people without real lives—the sycophants and bottom-feeders—to say nothing of those with a must-politicize-my-perversion agenda—are willing to take any goddamn piece of gross gossip without validation or proof and run it up the fagpole… er flagpole.
Face it home boys: The worst thing you can call a Black athlete is gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, hahaha.
Fortunately, big Ovie didn’t take the bait, didn’t dignify the no-name who allegedly “outed him”. I suspect he’s too busy with the ladies to pay it any mind. Reminds me of a joke about the Pope.
Bottom line: If you believe half the things people say about your favorite athletes, you’re a bigger fool than the people saying it. I just listened to Ovie’s agent, Todd France, brush the whole thing off on 790 the Zone. No big deal, said France. Just another day in the life of an agent. But this small voice is sick of internet graffiti.
Photo of Ovie Mughelli. If this is gay, sign me up!
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