Tag Archive | NFL
We Are Ready For You
More athletes have signed on to the Chris Kluwe/Brendon Ayanbadejo amicus brief filed in the Prop 8/DOMA cases, which will be heard at oral argument today in the Supreme Court. Here’s a short list of some of the highlights: Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, Executive Director of the NFL Players Association Demaurice Smith, Co-Founder of the [...]
Chris Kluwe and Brendon Ayanbadejo Continue to be Awesome
Chris Kluwe and Brendon Ayanbadejo are two of the most outspoken LGBT allies in sports right now. That’s not to say that there aren’t others, but even we have already written about them numerous times, including here. But now we have even one more (nerdy) reason to adore them: Kluwe and Ayanbadejo have filed an [...]
Monday (ok Tuesday) Morning Quarterbacking: Super Bowl Recap
Super Bowl XLVII: put it in the books. Hopefully everyone had fun Sunday night and made it to work on time and in one piece the next day. The game got pretty exciting post-power outage (!!!), but after an exciting run and a potentially blown holding call, the Niners fell short. As you may have [...]
Links Post: Superbowl Round-Up
Friends, America’s favorite holiday is upon us: it’s Super Bowl weekend. We at Bloomer Girls will be watching the big game among friends and a ridiculous amount of Baltimore-, San Francisco- and New Orleans-themed food at Lydia’s house. Whether you’ll be watching or avoiding, whether you have a horse in this race or you’re watching [...]
BarbaraBowl
In advance of this weekend’s Superbowl game, two of the senators from the teams’ home states have made a little bet on the outcome of the game. Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland were on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show yesterday, gently trash talking each other’s teams while looking like they were [...]
Not Liking Sports is Gender-Neutral, Okay Already?!
With the start of the NFL hockey season post-lockout, the hockey blogs finally have something to write about other than “hey, the commissioner was sighted on 6th Avenue this morning!” (I assume…as I don’t actually read any hockey blogs except occasionally The Bakeshop because Katie Baker is super funny.) The NY Rangers recently made a [...]
What Jovan Belcher and Kasandra Perkins Tells Us About CTE and Domestic Violence, If Anything
Over the weekend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot Kasandra Perkins — his girlfriend and the mother of his 3-month old daughter — and then went to the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium (where the Chiefs play) and, in front of the team’s general manager and head coach, shot himself. This horrifying tragedy raises [...]
ESPN The Magazine’s Political Survey
In its most recent issue, ESPN The Magazine conducted an anonymous survey of players across the four big sports about various political issues. At the outset, I don’t think sports and politics should mix, but obviously athletes have lives beyond their jobs, and I don’t fault them for using their fame to advance their beliefs and values. [...]
Chicago Bears Owners Don’t Want Their Employees to Have Comprehensive Healthcare
On Sunday the Chicago Bears owners hosted “The Reclaiming Religious Liberty Leadership Summit” at their practice field in Lake Forest, Ill., specifically criticizing the portion of the Affordable Care Act (known fondly as Obamacare) which requires all healthcare coverage to include coverage of contraception. To be clear: our healthcare system is structured in such a way that [...]
Support for Gay Rights Gains Yardage in the NFL
Last week was a big one for marriage equality activism in football. Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has long been an outspoken advocate for marriage equality and gay rights, speaking about his support for these issues on ESPN’s Outside the Lines, participating in the No H8 campaign and appearing in videos of Marylanders for Marriage Equality. Towleroad (who [...]
