gays have a long history in RL.

to be part of the game they were tough.

eg when ian roberts was taunted about it he belted the tripe of the person who did it.

RL welcomes minorities, it always has

this doesnt justify this dumb thread though.

PC madness

If that's his idea of a joke thank christ he's can play rugby as he'd make a sh*t comedian.

People may take offence, and it's for nobody else to say whether it's wrong to do so. At the end of the day, it shows a lack of common sense to post something like that. I'm sure someone's had a word to say don't be so stupid in the future.

Key part underlined. I'd say confidentally that more than half the country lack this, including Mr Brown.
You could argue that common sense would be for Kevin Brown not to make homophobic jokes (which it is, whether he intended it to be malicious or not, which I doubt) on a mainstream internet site when the RFL have a zero-tolerance stance on it. The RFL are trying to create an image for the game and this goes against it.

I'm only bothered about it because I'm going to be investing into a primary school coaching company in a new area after working for one up in Leeds during uni. And honestly, there are parents that come in and say they don't want their kids to play certain sports because they "don't want them to be like that." Most common one for me is parents who don't want them to play football "because they don't want their kids to grow up cheats". Whether you agree with their viewpoint or not is irrelevant. If someone has a reason, no matter how small, to not want to take part or invest then it's bad.

What's done is done. It was stupid thing to put on to twitter where anyone could pick up on it. If it was a slow news day i'm sure some newspaper would have.

A private telling off by Huddersfield and the rfl and "don't do it again" is fine by me.
We all make jokes about certain things, it offended a little bit but then I think I say worse myself. Just if your a professional RL player, don't do it in the public eye.

It's on his 'personal' twitter account, are sportsmen not allowed to have a private/social life and are they not allowed to have a laugh and a joke? Do you follow him on twitter? If not then your jumping on the bandwagon sticking the boot in jumping on your high horse (over this incident, that's not a judge on your character).

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/16441

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/16441

If he'd sent it on a private email to someone I might have some sympathy for that point of view, but if you put something on Twitter it can be seen by the world and his dog - it ceases to be private and you need to think before you tweet.

Indeed. Publication is publication.

Maybe blind gay people have a penchant for the taste of a good hotdog, not averse myself to a good tasting hotdog and onions ?

Twitter isn't a private service, he published his joke publicly for the public to read.

Exactly, who are we to judge whether or not a blind gay would enjoy a tour of a hot dog factory?

It's the sick minded minority that judge the blind gay man of being a rampant homosexual willing to do dirty things with a sausage, shame on you all.

I'll admit, that made me chuckle

I think the term "puff" still counts on the ol' list of offensive and derogatory things to call people of that persuasion though, so he's still a naughty boy.

This is now a longer thread than a guy who gets blown by a dog

The worlds gone mad i tell thee

They dont, i wouldnt have a problem with a neo-nazi racist skin-head EDL member bnp voting facist was an RL player. I would simply want the RFL to make sure that said players views werent welcome in the game, couldnt be expressed within the game, and that the game itself found those views offensive.

There's nothing like a bit of irony, especially at 1:00 in the morning on exam leave.