Irish Soccer Star Learns the Night You're Getting Honored is the Worst Time to Post a Video with Your Dong Out
Source – A Northern Ireland international footballer has apologised after a video emerged of him walking through Belfast city centre semi-naked and engaged in a lewd act.
Gavin Whyte described the incident as a “moment of stupidity”, adding that he regrets it very much.
“I can only apologise to anyone I offended and to those I let down by my behaviour,” he said in a statement issued through his club, Oxford United. …
The video emerged on social media on Monday night, the same evening the 22-year-old Belfast man was being honoured for his exploits on the pitch at a sports awards ceremony in the city.
In the video, Whyte, who was formerly with Irish League side Crusaders, is seen with another man walking down a pavement beside Belfast City Hall, both with their trousers and pants down around their knees, exposing themselves. …
Oxford United manager Karl Robinson said: “It is totally out of character. … Clearly he had drunk too much, and we will deal with that too.”
Because you were going to ask, here’s a SFWish screen grab from the video in question. I could post it here, but it would violate my one personal policy of not posting wang pictures, heavily pixelated or otherwise. When it comes to pics of drunk guys hanging brain while walking down the street, I’m definitely of the Err on the Side of Caution persuasion.
That said, this goes to show much further advanced as a society Northern Ireland is. A soccer star draws swords with a buddy in the middle of a public street and the response from his team is a little “tsk tsk,” a finger wag and a semi-stern lecture about how they’re not so much mad as they are, well, disappointed. And a promise he’ll get a good talking to about how he’s better than that.
Can you imagine for one second what the reaction over here would be if some NBA star or Heisman candidate posted a video of himself playing Whip Out? There’d be emergency sessions of Congress. Jameis Winston shoplifted some crab legs and yelled FHRITP – which one should not do in polite company because it is wrong – and people took refuge in their houses of worship like the End of Days was nigh. I mean, just think of the lectures we’d be getting on the sports shows and cable news? How many times we’d hear about toxic masculinity and role models letting us down and what about the children??? But in Northern Ireland it barely registers more than a “Hey, knock that shit off” and everyone moves on with their lives.
That said, the best time to commit an embarrassing act of sexual shenanigans is any time other than when you’re being given an award. Let’s not forget Atlanta Falcons legend Eugene Robinson at the Super Bowl in Miami, accepting a Man of the Year award on Friday night, then leaving his wife and kids at the hotel pool to go solicit a blowie from an undercover cop posing as a hooker on South Beach. When you to that or pull your junk out on Instagram, it pretty much makes people forget all about the cool award you were presented with. Which defeats the purpose of being honored. Thus endth the lesson.
P.S. An Irish soccer manager saying his player was drunk when he waved his schlong around on a city street might be the most unnecessary words ever spoken.