[Sam Odom]

Gay player says kiss got him booted

DICKINSON, N.D. -- A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first college football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman linebacker to be kicked off the team, he said.

Kuntz said he and his 65-year-old boyfriend were in the press box at the game against Snow College in Pueblo, Colo., over Labor Day weekend. Kuntz was videotaping the game for the team. His Wildcats were down by more than 40 points when "the kiss just happened," he said. The team eventually would lose 63-17.

"People around here aren't exposed to it," Ouyster said of homosexuality. "People expect gays to be flamboyant, not football players."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...ot-booted-team

[SBR_John]

Maybe he can join the cheerleaders. Sick fukk.

[Sam Odom]

[MUHerd37]

I saw this yesterday. Fukkin disgusting. Glad he was kicked off the team.

[BIGDAY]

Dickinson NoDak.

Been there... Wouldnt surprise me...

[hels]

Kid deserves to get the boot. Disgusting f\*g.

[Deuce]

Who cares. Does not change my life at all.

[Ghenghis Kahn]

[CanuckG]

[Sam Odom]

point of thread

jj is often depressed because he is older and believes he cannot pick-up hot young tricks any longer

but apparently there is hope for jj and sammy

hope for the hopeless

[Sam Odom]

Jamie

[Ghenghis Kahn]

sammy ygos?

[Sam Odom]

Sammy is a liberal

[GUMMO77]

Dickinson NoDak.

Been there... Wouldnt surprise me...

Same here, bud.

Dickinson is a hellhole.

[jjgold]

Sammy ??

[RogueScholar]

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) -- A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first college football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman linebacker to be kicked off the team, he said.


North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton acknowledges Kuntz was disciplined by the team, but says it wasn't because he is gay. Football coach Chuck Parsons told Kuntz in a letter that he was removed from the team for lying about the kiss.


Kuntz, 18, and on a partial football scholarship, left the college in southeast North Dakota this month after his dismissal from the team.


"Football didn't work out, so there was no reason to stay," said Kuntz, who lives with his mother across the state in Dickinson.


Kuntz said he and his 65-year-old boyfriend were in the press box at the game against Snow College in Pueblo, Colo., over Labor Day weekend. Kuntz was videotaping the game for the team. His Wildcats were down by more than 40 points when "the kiss just happened," he said. The team would eventually lose 63-17.


"People around here aren't exposed to it," Kuntz said of homosexuality. "People expect gays to be flamboyant, not football players."


A teammate apparently saw the kiss and told coaches, Kuntz said. When Parsons confronted Kuntz on the bus ride back to North Dakota, Kuntz told him the man he kissed was his grandfather.


"I lied," Kuntz said.


Later, he felt guilty about lying and came clean to his coach.


In a Sept. 3 dismissal letter obtained by The Associated Press, Parsons told Kuntz he was being ousted from the team under the "conduct deemed detrimental to the team" category outlined in guidelines in the team's player's manual. Parsons specifically noted the manual's section on "lying to coaches, teachers or other school staff."


"This decision was arrived at solely on the basis of your conduct during the football game; and because you chose not to be truthful with me when I confronted you about whom else was in the box with you," Parsons wrote. "Any conduct by any member of the program that would cause such a distraction during a game would warrant the same consequences."


Kuntz doesn't believe he was dismissed just for lying.


"I know if it was a girl in the press box, or even an older woman, nothing would have happened," he said. "If it was an older woman, I would have probably been congratulated for it from my teammates."


School officials told the AP that they were investigating whether this was the first such instance of someone being kicked off the football team for lying.


John Richman, North Dakota State College of Science president, said other players have been kicked off the team for various reasons, though he couldn't say whether any before had been booted specifically for lying.


"I don't know of every single case where coach Parsons has had to discipline a young man," Richman said.


Other behavior that the player's manual says could lead to dismissal includes criminal violations, fighting and repeated absences or tardiness to class. Richman said he believes Kuntz's case was handled "fairly and consistently" by the athletic department.


"I'm very confident that with the information that's been provided to me by our football coach, Chuck Parsons, by our athletic director, Stu Engen, that the thought process, the facts that were reviewed, have led them to an appropriate and the right decision in this case," Richman said Tuesday in an interview at the college.


Parsons recently joined the school's diversity council as a faculty representative, according to Sybil Priebe, an English and humanities professor who heads the council. Its programs include events for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Priebe said Tuesday she had not heard much about the incident with Kuntz.


Kuntz said he told his mother that he was gay at the same time he told her he was kicked off the team.


"I'm struggling with it," said Rita Kuntz, choking back tears. "I love Jamie and I'm proud of him, but I know what the school did was wrong."


Rita Kuntz said she has accepted that her son is gay, but she believes he was taken advantage of by his boyfriend, who is more than three times her son's age.


Jamie Kuntz said he met the man online more than a year ago. Kuntz said the man, whom he would not identify, lives in Colorado and the two have met there a few times in recent months.


As far as his football career, Kuntz says he's not giving up. He may pursue it as a walk-on at another university outside North Dakota.


"I miss it already," he said.


Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[RyanLeafOfBets]

18 and 65... Harold and Maude!

[RogueScholar]

LOL, great reference, RLOB! I love that movie, not just for the setting in San Francisco or the soundtrack by Cat Stevens, but because I can only pray that I'm kissing boys as cute as him when I'm 65.

[BIGDAY]

Guy kind of looks like me. This is not good for me...

[MonkeyF0cker]

That's quite a last name for a gay fellow.

[jjgold]

I wonder how good 65 year old women are in bed??

Anyone know??

[RogueScholar]

Maybe he can join the cheerleaders. Sick fukk.

Whoa now, do I need to mention how ancient you are compared to the age of your wife?

Pot, meet kettle.

[Emily_Haines]

Hope he sues the school and rakes in tons of money

[ttwarrior1]

65 year old must have cash?

[King Mayan]

A lot of closet homos in this thread.

[ACoochy]

Bunch of fukkin homophobes in this thread..

Unreal that some of u do not approve of others being themselves, even when their not hurting anyone else..

[ACoochy]

Whoa now, do I need to mention how ancient you are compared to the age of your wife?

Pot, meet kettle.

Gotta love that inbread texan trait of talking b4 thinking

[RogueScholar]

Hope he sues the school and rakes in tons of money

You and me both.

65 year old must have cash?

Or just a kind spirit and a rooster as thick as my forearm. My first lover was much older than me, and not at all rich, but nevertheless he had all the right assets to keep my eyes glittering.

[KingJD31]

He's 65 years old are u insane? If that kid is one year younger this story is about child molestation. These Starbucks drinking libs are to funny

Bunch of fukkin homophobes in this thread..

Unreal that some of u do not approve of others being themselves, even when their not hurting anyone else..

[KingJD31]

10 years from now grandpas will be having sex with there grandchildren in public and it will be recognized as normal

[MonkeyF0cker]

He's 65 years old are u insane? If that kid is one year younger this story is about child molestation. These Starbucks drinking libs are to funny

There's only one problem to your argument...

He's not one year younger.

If your uncle was your sister, and your mother was your brother... blah blah blah.

[bettilimbroke999]

When ya get in deep with the bookies ya gotta do what ya gotta do...kids just workin off his debt one blowjob at a time

[Dirty Sanchez]

I wonder how good 65 year old women are in bed??

Anyone know??

Ask Bronxer....that dude has nailed some real hags

[Optional]

What sort of school punishes anyone for lying if they are the one to come forward and admit it? Punish him for any offense he lied about, but not for the original lie. That's crazy.

Geez the kid had not even told his family yet, who wouldn't lie to the coach about it... Hope the coach and school get pulled into line.

Podunk places like this push gay kids into being prey for internet groomers. Probably would not even think about old dudes off the web if he didn't know the town/school was so homophobic.

And this coach is on the school diversity committee??? Surprised this kid or his parents aren't kicking up a shit storm. I have a gay child and know I would go for this coach like a rabid dog.

[InTheDrink]

if an 18 yr old dude was caught kissing a 65 yr old dried up broad he'd get laughed off the team because he'd quit

thats pretty much how this one should have gone