There’s no way a fire-breathing racist would be in front of me or on my speed dial and we haven’t had a real discussion about ‘your tendencies to not see the black man on your level’. “I sat in front of him for two years and I’m a child of the South. “You’re not going to call my head coach a racist,” Sapp said. Sapp, who was born in Orlando and went to high school in Apopka, Florida, said that being from the South, he could say there’s “no way” Gruden is a “fire-breathing racist.” “I bet this is the first time in DeMaurice Smith’s life someone called him ‘big lipped’ and he said it was racist.” We have been calling Big-Lipped Johnny ‘Big Lipped Johnny’ for the last 40 years. “But to say DeMaurice Smith got big lips? Yeah, DeMaurice Smith got big lips just like Barack Obama got big ears. On December 18th, 2007, YTMND user PolZom submitted a page titled "Greenman changes facial expressions", which featured a transparent Green Man silhouette cycling through photographs of Chuck Norris, Super Mario and Fabio Lanzoni.“That’s racist? If he walked in and said when I walk into my locker room ‘it looks like I got a bunch of DeMaurice Smith’s in there by the mouth’, that would be a racial trope, “Sapp said. On November 1st, 2008, YTMND user Sporticus submitted a page titled "Wild Card Bitches", featuring an animated GIF of Charlie dancing in the Green Man suit from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (shown below). On March 2nd, 2009, YTMND user nedisahonkey submitted a page titled "Green Man", which featured a similar animated GIF accompanied by a mashup of the song "Sandstorm" by Darude and an audio clip of Howard Dean's scream.
On August 3rd, the sports news blog Deadspin published a post titled "The Legend of Green Man," which cited It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as the origin of the Green Man phenomenon at sporting events. On October 22nd, ESPN published an article titled “The Sporting World Has Gone Green Man,” reporting on various sightings of Green Man during major sporting events. On December 23rd, YouTuber CanucksHD uploaded a video titled "Green Spandex Men Mocking Opposition Players" (shown below, left), which featured two men dressed in green lycra suits taunting players at a hockey game.
On April 16th, 2010, YouTuber VanCity12 uploaded another video of the same men in lycra suits taunting players at a Vancouver Canucks playoff game (shown below, right).ESPN’s new series ‘We The Fans: Dallas’ will feature a gay couple about to be married, who have bonded over their love for the Dallas Cowboys.
The ESPN Features Unit followed 12 Cowboys fans through the 2017 NFL season. Tim Sehon and Justin McCurry, an interracial gay couple from Arlington, Texas, are diehard Cowboys fans. They met at a friend’s game night and hit it off quickly, each of them seeing a familiar competitiveness in the other. Yet in high school, they had very different relationships with football. McCurry was teased regularly as other kids in high school, including his teammates, thought (correctly) that he was gay. “I didn’t want to face it going to practice in the locker room having people talk about me or laugh at me, so I just stopped with the sports,” McCurry told Outsports. “But if I knew then what I know now I would have continued on and not let that bother me. “I wouldn’t let that stop me from striving for what I want to do now.” Just knowing to not always let what other people are saying affect you. Sehon, on the other hand, wasn’t suspected of being gay on his high school football team. He dated women regularly and buried any feelings he had for other men. “I tried to play the part until my early 20s,” Sehon said. Your’e either going to be there to accept me or you’re not.” “I finally got out on my own, living on my own, and I finally just decided I’m going to be 100% me. The couple’s appearance in the first episode revolves heavily around acceptance. The two got engaged to marry last year, and McCurry knew he needed to return home to Indianola, Mississippi, to share the news with his family in person. It was telling McCurry’s mother that made the couple nervous. I was super nervous because I was afraid she would turn her back on me.” “She already knew I was gay,” McCurry said, “but she’s a very good Christian and just me getting ready to go toward her with that, it put me in an awkward moment because I didn’t know what to expect from her.