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Per Boston.com



A tweet from Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes has stirred up controversy once again.

On Wednesday, Spikes posted a comment about homosexuality.

“I’m homophobic just like I’m arachnophobic. I have nothing against homosexuals or spiders but I’d still scream if I found one in my bathtub!” he wrote.

Many Twitter users criticized him for the post, even after he later tweeted “PEOPLE !!!! It’s a joke … seriously a JOKE !!! Chill out.”

Spikes’s tweets are often vulgar and sensational. During the NFL referees lockout, his Twitter comment comparing replacement officials to Foot Locker employees made national headlines.

Yunel Escobar, a shortstop for the Toronto Blue Jays, was suspended three games in September for writing a slur about homosexuality in Spanish on his eye black during a game against the Red Sox Sept. 15.
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Will Rodger Goodell suspend Brandon for this?

BTW, props to Spikes for now using my picture as his avatar!

PatsDeb

Oy, the stupidity of youth. Brandon, shut up and play football!!
(and no, I don't think he'll be suspended because secretly [and unfortunately] most of the people in the NFL probably agree with him.)

Edit - making a dumb joke on your Twitter account is not the same as advertising a slur on your face during an actual game. What a dummy that guy is.

Palm Beach Pats Fan

He didn't use the hot-button hate words that would make it a slur, so he should be OK IMO.

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condon84

No problem with his tweet it at all.

Sciz

He definitely didn't need to come out and say it, but a player admitting to being homophobic isn't anywhere near suspension-worthy in my mind.

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Juddy

He isn't admitting homophobia it's a joke. People are way too uptight.

Deus Irae

While there's nothing wrong with his tweet, or even a legitimately anti-homosexual (or anti-anything) comment on his private time, athletes haven't been smart enough to get this stuff removed from the purview of the league commissioners, so anything's possible.

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Bhelmet

Sad, the 1st Amendment does not apply to the NFL - we already know Goodell is a tyrant so Brandon's fate is up in the air. I actually thought the tweet was funny - not hate at all.

brdmaverick

Are people REALLY offended by his statement? It was a joke. Sure, insensitive, but most jokes are.

Being a celebrity I would think that Brandon would want to limit anything that can be blown out of proportion, but I think most of it is people LOOKING for things to be offended by.

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SeymourTrophies

The sight of a huge dude like Brandon Spikes ripping open a shower curtain to find Adam Lambert and screaming like a teenage girl is a pretty funny image actually. I might scream like a little girl if I found anything unexpected in my bath tub.

People weren't getting any sort of sanction for annihilating the replacement refs (Mr. Spikes included), I don't see why a joke like that over Twitter is worth punishing, particularly because there wasn't an ounce of malice in his command.

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