Chris Kluwe: MN Viking Coach Mike Priefer Needs Therapy
by Will Kohler
Former Minnesota Vikings punter and LGBT
ally Chris Kluwe said Tuesday that he wants the football team’s special
teams coach Mike Priefer, who used extreme and violent anti-gay language
in the locker room, to get help.
"After thinking about it, after reflecting
on it, I don’t think an appropriate punishment is if he never coaches
again," Kluwe said on "Fox Sports Live." "I think it would be better if
he got therapy, if he got counseling, and then a year or two from now,
come back into the league as a role model, help out with LGBT groups,
and show people that this is an important issue."
Kluwe earlier this month came forth with a piece that he wrote for Deadspin, letting
it be known that he was let go from the Vikings for being an ally to
the LGBT community. He described Priefer as a"bigot who used anti-gay
slurs around him and was quoted as saying "gays should be rounded up and
put on an island and nuked"
Priefer, however, "vehemently denies" using anti-gay language
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