Pat Tillman remark, not needed. We'll be fine on defense, we need a bit more youth in the LB corps (which we can get in the draft) and some safety depth. We are fine everywhere else.
If it was funny? No. My joke was in bad taste. I disrespected a dead person who died "honorably". (See? another terrible joke. Ha!) But whoever dropped the 'faggot' on me, is in disrespect to an entire people. You might as well have called me a nigger or a kike or a wop or a mick or redskin or...you get it. I don't hate Pat Tillman, I admired him and I hate the way he was killed. I filled in the blank with a dead NFL player for impact. It rolled off the dark side of my brain. If the NFL player I mentioned was Sean Taylor instead of an American serviceman, the sting might have hurt less. A faggot, however, is a hate word. And often, a repressed gay person word.
faggot or esp ( US ) fagot 1 (ˈfæɡət) — n 1. a bundle of sticks or twigs, esp when bound together and used as fuel 2. a bundle of iron bars, esp a box formed by four pieces of wrought iron and filled with scrap to be forged into wrought iron 3. a ball of chopped meat, usually pork liver, bound with herbs and bread and eaten fried 4. a bundle of anything
"My joke was in bad taste..*proceeds to make another joke about the same person*" Nice. And making fun of a dead soldier isn't disrespectful to a group of people, namely, military personnel, especially active ones?
