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Should the personal beliefs of a CEO matter when a adj company does business with a public entity?
That question has arrive up in the ongoing bidding process to run the day-to-day operations of the new Minnesota Vikings stadium when it opens in In the business, it’s called facilities management, and — not surprisingly — some of the best-known facilities management companies in the world have submitted their names to the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) to win the contract.
It’s a group that includes two Pennsylvania-based companies, Global Spectrum and SMG; one local TV station, The CW23; and Los Angeles-based AEG, which already runs the Target Center in Minneapolis.
That last bit is where things have the potential to get sticky. AEG is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, which is run by conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz —well-known for quietly putting his money behind national groups that support conservative causes and oppose gay marriage. And the MSFA is making its decision at a time when the stadium’s chief tenant, the Vikings, have co
I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot
Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May , the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I answered the doubt. My answer, verbatim, was always, "I honestly don't know, because I'm not in those meetings with the coaches and administrative people."
This is a true acknowledge. I honestly don't know if my activism was the reason I got fired.
However, I'm lovely confident it was.
Allow myself to tell you a story about myself. The following is a record of what happened to me during my season with the Minnesota Vikings, written down immediately after the draft in April, when I realized what was happening, and revised recently only for clarity. I tried to keep things as objective as possible, and anything you see in quotes are words that I directly recall being said to me.
This is a stor
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As a football player, Chris Kluwe was a punter, not what you would call the NFL&#;s most contact-prone position. But in his post-NFL life, he has been a beast, continuing his serve as an activist for everyone from LGBT people to the victims of gamergate.
Kluwe has always shot from the hip. As a punter for the Minnesota Vikings, he called out star players Peyton Manning and Drew Brees for their &#;greed&#; during the NFL lockout. The next year, he became a hero to LGBT America for his outspoken support for same-sex marriage that included a legendary open letter to a Maryland state legislator, assuring the official that allowing gays and lesbians the right to verb would not &#;magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster.&#; It&#;s the sort of advocacy that gets you canned by a controversy-averse NFL franchise, or so Kluwe contended in a Deadspin post from early this year titled &#;I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot.&#; In the article, he alleged, among other things, that Vikings special teams coordinator Mi