Jamie Kuntz: kicked off the football team for being gay?

Jamie Kuntz isn’t like most of the other players on the North Dakota State College of Sciences.  The 18-year-old linebacker was in the press box during the team’s Labor Day game versus Snow College in Pueblo, Colorado, running the video tape as his team would go on to lose 63-17, when he gave a kiss to his significant other.  That significant other happens to be a 65-year-old man.  Jamie Kuntz believes his inter-generational gay kiss got him kicked off his college football team.

However, North Dakota State College of Sciences coach Chuck Parsons says Kuntz’s dismissal has nothing to do with the gay aspects of the kiss, or the disturbing age difference, but other factors.  When Parsons asked Kuntz about the kiss, Kuntz lied and said he was kissing his grandfather; a few days after the lie, Kuntz came clean and confessed he was kissing his boyfriend.  That earned Kuntz a one-way ticket off the football team thanks to the “conduct deemed detrimental to the team” guideline in the team rulebook.  Specifically, Parsons noted the section outlining penalties for 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,” indicated Parsons.  “Any conduct by any member of the program that would cause such a distraction during a game would warrant the same consequences.”

Kuntz, for his part, believes that if the kiss wasn’t a gay kiss that he’d still be on the team.  Then again, he was kissing someone old enough to be his grandparent, which would no doubt be frowned upon by any self-respecting college football team, gay or straight.  Without his football scholarship, Kuntz has left North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton.  He is planning on enrolling elsewhere, and is looking to make a return to football.

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