Freeper famous athletes (past & present)

[Domitan]

Which ones score very highly on the Freeper scale?

Off the top of my head,

Ty Cobb

Joe Rocker

Steve Carlton

Bob Knepper (pitcher that demanded that female umpire Pam Posthuma be a real woman and not work in a man's world)

Don Cherry (Canadians know who he is)

Mark Chmura (Green Bay tight end who snubbed Clinton at WhiteHouse

SuperBowl party due to Clinton's poor morality...and ended up charged with sexual assault himself)

Bill McCartney (Promise Keepers founder...former Colorado Buffaloes coach)

Any players who slurred at Jackie Robinson

[WoodrowFan]

1. Eric Show

pitcher for Padres who was a John Bircher and conspiracy freek.

[maveric]

16. Oh Gawd!! I remember him.

Big time freeper! Died of a cocaine overdose a couple of years removed from the game.

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. In this past issue of ESPN the magazine

Adam Dunn was quoted as saying "Bush, love him" when asked Bush or Kerry?

So I guess you can put him on the list too

on edit:
speaking of Reds how about former owner Marge Schott...she had a chronic case of foot in mouth disease

[WoodrowFan]

5. he's a Texas football player

so I'm not surprised. disappointed, but not surprised

[St. Jarvitude]

39. He played college football?

He plays for the Reds and started off the season as the hottest hitter in the NL.

[WoodrowFan]

40. I know

I'm a BIG reds fan. But Dunn was a college football quarterback in Texas when the Reds drafted him. Does Texas ALLOW quarterbacks in that state to not be right wingers??

[ashling]

3. What about ex- Congressman .T.J. Watts (R.Oklahoma)

[DrWeird]

6. J.C. Watts

But he reminds me of somebody else, can't remember his name. Black guy, former pro football player, total rightwing nut job...

[Domitan]

9. Reggie White?

Remember his rants against gays?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

32. He prefers the term "sodomites". n/t

[ashling]

15. Thanks, Dr. A little fuzzy headed today.

[Domitan]

4. Let me add Reggie White

My my, he's so silent this month with this gay marriage/amendment storm happening!

[bluestateguy]

7. Steve Carlton

Wasn't he the one who claimed that 12 Jews in Switzerland were secretly running the world?

[Domitan]

8. Yup that's the one

really made reporters leery of interviewing him.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Uh... Steve Largent, anyone?

:shrug:

[dobak]

13. What did Largent do?

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. Uh.

https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/bio/?id=482&congress=1061&lvl=C
http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0109378.html
http://archive.aclu.org/vote-guide/Largent_S.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020829-1.html

[fortyfeetunder]

30. Steve Largent that dimwit

Now this is a Dimson in the making..

At the 2000 RNC, he was featured along Rep. Jennifer Dunn...and he admitted as a college student he saw the sign "GOP" and didn't know what it meant. Now he are one.

He tried to run for governor of Oklahoma, and thankfully the residents didn't buy into it....

[flamingyouth]

11. Mike Ditka

Doesn't the Illinois GOP have him as a possible candidate for senate?

My gods, we really are in the end times - maybe all those freeper novels are right.:eyes:

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. BTW, as utterly loathsome as Cobb was...

...and there are no words to fittingly describe just HOW loathsome he was; Cobb wouldn't have been a Freeper.

A disgusting, racist piece of shit? Yes.

But not a Freeper.

He gave a LOT of money to poor ex-ballplayers (this was back in the day when a ballplayer had to pump gas after his career to make ends meet). There aren't too many Freepers who give a good Goddamn about any poor people.

Wow, that means that RimJob is an even WORSE human being than Ty Cobb! Go figure!

[Domitan]

17. very interesting

It's the old Yin-Yang analogy...a lil good in the bad and a lil bad in the good.

[dobak]

14. Ted Williams

I don't have any quotes, but I guess he was fairly conservative

[MajorFlaw]

19. You would be wrong. Ted Williams was a hardcore liberal.

When Ted was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame, he used his own acceptance speech to chastise baseball for not recognizing Negro league ballplayers. The reason he is mistakenly considered "conservative" is that he was a top notch fighter pilot in WW1 and Korea, even serving as John Glenn's wingman. Don't fall for the hype, Ted Williams was a real hero and a real good guy.

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. WWII, that is.

Teddy Ballgame wasn't THAT old. ;)

[maveric]

23. He never flew in combat during WWII.

He was a marine flyer but he never left the USA> Now during Korea he was an ace. Even got shot down behind enemy lines.

[MajorFlaw]

26. You are correct, of course. I must have had a brain cramp.

n/t

[troublemaker]

22. The only reason he's considered a RW nut is that we WAS

I love Ted Williams. I have a picture of him right here where I'm typing. I've read all sorts of books by him and about him and I think he was as valuable as Babe Ruth, but his politics were hard core RW.

Speaking well of Negro League players doesn't always make a person a progressive.

[MajorFlaw]

28. Can you be a little more specific. His mother was a LEFT -wing

religious nut, a member of the Salvation Army IIRC, and he mostly adopted her values. Right wingnuts liked to have their picture taken with him because he really was what John Wayne pretended to be. Any links to Ted's right wing activities?

[DAGDA56]

29. Agreed...I want to hear more about Ted...I always thought of him...

...as a good guy with a John Wayne image and a John Glenn atitude... but I am willing to be educated.

[troublemaker]

21. The entire San Diego Padres pitching rotation in 1984

and they had the worst performance by any starting four in the world series that year. I think not one of them made it past the third inning.

[maveric]

24. Whitson, Show, Dravecky, Gossage...

There were a couple more too.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

25. Billy Martin

[johnnie]

27. Nolan Ryan

:shrug: I'm pretty sure he is. Too bad, he was like watching poetry in motion.

[VOX]

31. Roger Staubach, Gary Carter, Steve Garvey, JACK KEMP...

And other assorted fundie-freeper-hypocrites.

[Domitan]

35. Fill me in about Gary Carter

What's so freepish about a guy who retired in a baseball uniform from Quebec?

[VOX]

43. Will "Republican stalwart" and "Bush family friend" do it for you?

Evidence submitted herewith:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/2463979
March 30, 2004, 5:16PM
Ex-President Bush to skydive for 80th
By SHELBY HODGE
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
He did it at 75, and now, ignoring admonitions from his wife, former President George Bush is jumping out of an airplane to celebrate another birthday -- his 80th.
<snip>
The celebrity lineup includes Republican stalwarts and Bush family friends -- Bo Derek, Chris Evert, Gary Carter, Crystal Gayle, Amy Grant, Lee Greenwood, Naomi Judd, Larry King, Dennis Miller, Jim Nantz, Chuck Norris, the Oak Ridge Boys, Michael W. Smith, Tommy Tune, Ronan Tynan and more.
<snip>


http://sports.mainetoday.com/seadogs/thomas/030810seadogsnotes.shtml
Sunday, August 10, 2003
Maine Today - Sports
<snip>
{George H.W.} Bush has made baseball friends through the years. When Gary Carter was voted into the Hall of Fame, he sent an invitation to Bush.

At the ceremony last week in Cooperstown, Bush showed up, with a grandson tagging along, of course.
<snip>

[Angelus]

33. Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan.

Ric had lunch with Dubya about a month or so ago and Hogan has said in his book that he's a repub.

[Zech Marquis]

34. Rob Dibble

he said something about voting for the guy who won't take alot of income tax from his paychecks as a player :puke: that and he loved Schott, the late Nazi owner of the Reds :argh:

[pstokely]

36. John Rocker

nt

[Swamp Rat]

37. Lance Armstrong?

A DUer posted in another thread that Lance Armstrong is but I don't know for sure.

[KamaAina]

41. Does Sheryl Crow know about this?

I was wondering about that: "Hey, wait a minute! Isn't Lance a righty? Why on Earth would she..."

Better not tell her during the Tour, or Lance might have to withdraw with an injury, one not caused by a fall...

[Swamp Rat]

44. LOL!

:toast:

edited: to add a beer

[St. Jarvitude]

38. Sexual assault of a minor, too

I think going to a party with high schoolers when you're in your thirties and getting a quickie from a 14 year old girl is just a tad bit than getting consensual oral sex from a White House intern.

[KamaAina]

42. The guy who got shelled last night

Roger Clemens is a righty in more ways than one...

http://www.rogerclemensonline.com/news.htm

Roger & Debbie, along with Lauren Bush and Sharon & Neil Bushare the Co-Chairs of "Playing with the Masters" at Carnegie Hall on December 4, 2002

If it quacks like a Bush...