Joey Porter issued an "apology" today for twice calling Kellen Winslow a "****" [edit: rhymes with "hag"] after the last Steelers-Browns game.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06347/745642-66.stm
Because the remarks were made by a black player, in this case a thuggish, infantile type who has been annointed the "leader" of the Steelers by the media and the "NFL's Toughest Man" by Sports Illustrated, the comments were barely noticed, whereas if they had been made by a white athlete it would have been John Rocker revisited.
I live in Pittsburgh, and it was only yesterday, five days after Porter used the un-PC term, that it received any notice here, and only in the form of a fawning column by Post-Gazette columnist Ron Cook, who is as groveling and anti-white as any writer in the country.
Cook has written dozens of articles denouncing John Rocker, some years after Rocker was set up by SI back in 1999. To Cook, Rocker is subhuman, an easy target to be demonized over and over. But Cook certainly pulled his punches when it comes to Porter, a highly over-ratedidiot who makes stupid comments all the time. Here are some snippets from Cook's article "condemning" Porter:
"[Porter's] representatives have Porter's image to rescue. There are potential marketing opportunities at stake. Even the NFL's most feared man. . . has to be careful about what lines he crosses. . ."
"In a sense, Porter is one of the Steelers' all-time most fascinating characters. There probably isn't a guy with a bigger heart on the team. . . Those were amazing acts of kindness."
Porter is the guy the local media always runs to for quotes, the same Joey Porter who was shot in the ass outside a nightclub, who gets in fights on the field before games, who chased Ray Lewis to the Ravens' team bus after a game wanting to fight him, who whined for months this season about how he was underpaid, who madestupid remarks about the president when the team was going to the White House after winning the Super Bowl, etc., etc. This is the kind of clown the media loves to hold up as a role model to American kids, and whose remarks about Winslow will quickly be forgiven and forgotten.
Edited by: Don Wassall