Last year, he wanted to do a story about Chiefs top receiver Tyreek Hill.

“We felt like every time we showed a Chiefs game in Denmark, we would have to discuss his issues,” Kjærsgaard-Rasmussen said over Zoom this week from his home country—because of the pandemic, he’ll miss his first Super Bowl in more than a decade. “We felt like we couldn’t praise him for everything he did on the field without also discussing the accusations off the field. It’s always tough. It’s tough figuring out, especially when you’re from Europe. Your [justice] system is difficult to understand.”

Hill was arrested back in 2014 for punching his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and choking her. He would later plead guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation, which required three years of probation and anger management courses. In 2019, he was investigated for battering the couple’s three-year-old son. Neither Hill nor the mother were ever charged—the district attorney stated that he felt a crime had been committed, but he didn’t have enough evidence to charge anyone. Around that time, audio recordings of a conversation between Hill and his then fiancé included Hill saying, “You need to be terrified of me too, b----.”

If this isn’t a totally familiar story to you or if the details seem hazy, that’s because Hill is now almost exclusively discussed in terms of his speed on the field during U.S. football broadcasts. The football viewing public has moved on. The accounts are blanketed in vagaries.

The inability to penetrate a surface-level conversation puzzled Kjærsgaard-Rasmussen, who, during media sessions on Wednesday and Thursday of Super Bowl week last year, asked Hill and some of his teammates about how an arrest and further accounts affected their relationship with Hill and complicated life inside the locker room. Kjærsgaard-Rasmussen said Hill appeared offended by his questions. Kjærsgaard-Rasmussen described Hill’s teammates as welcoming, but “no one wanted to talk about the issue in a real way.”

“We got a story done,” he says, “but if this had been Danish soccer players, who I interview the most, we would have been able to talk about it in a different way. I guess maybe we’re just more up front about more serious issues.”

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I wonder what would be a bigger hit to Watson's career: having it known he probably committed sexual assault against multiple women (like if he settled out of court pre-trial) or having it known he is gay/bi.

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What most people care about is irrelevant to the problem Watson coming out as gay would present and that is what his teammates would think.  NFL players might say all the right things in public (for the most part), but not many of going to happy about working closely with, sharing a lockeroom with, and showering with a gay guy.

And even if ownership/coaches/the SJW mob dictated that they must work with him, that would still be a detriment to the team's chances of success.  

I think if you took an anonymous poll of NFL players asking if they'd rather have a guy that paid an out of court settlement after sexual assault accusations against women or an openly gay guy as a teammate I think most would prefer the former.

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It's not about whether or not Watson would be signed.  I'm sure he would be.  It's about whether or not his teammates not wanting to play with him would be a detriment to the team's chances of success. It seems extremely unlikely that it wouldn't be.

That's not to say it'd be impossible for that team to be successful.  Just that it would lower the chances of them being successful.

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For one specific case: sure.  For a widespread application (like the hypotheticals I mentioned): no.  

And no, I didn't claim or imply that either.  I've noticed that when you are discussing something with someone you rarely hit "quote all" and instead usually opt for "quote single."  It might be a good idea to consider maybe quoting all instead that way it could be easier for you to recall what someone said when you are responding to their posts.  Just a friendly suggestion.