Imagine getting ready for a job interview--going over all the questions that might be asked about your credentials and experience and then, once in the chair, you are hit with these question:
Do you have a girlfriend?
Are you married?
Are you gay?
Sounds inappropriate, well, these are the exact questions that one NFL draft prospect,Colorado tight end Nick Kasa, was asked during his Combine interview with a few teams.
"We will look into the report on the questioning of Kasa at the Scouting Combine," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in a statement. "It is league policy to neither consider nor inquire about sexual orientation in the hiring process," reported New York Post.
The allegations come just days after it was revealed teams wanted to know more about controversial Notre Dame linebacker prospect Manti Te'o's sexual preferences, who revealed that his girlfriend didn't exist and that he was basically "punked" by a guy.
Either way, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio reported that NFL coaches and general managers at the scouting combine wanted to find out if Te'o was gay, and, as a result started asking all of their potential employees the same question.
"They ask you like, 'Do you have a girlfriend? Are you married? Do you like girls?'" Kasa said on an ESPN Radio show in Denver. "Those kinds of things. It was kind of weird. But they would ask you with a straight face, and it's a pretty weird experience altogether."
It is hard to believe that knowing someone's sexual preference would help coaches understand how mentally tough a player is, but apparently the teams do.
I think the whole point of the week is to play with your mind to see if you stay focused and stay driven," Kasa said. "There was a couple of questions by coaches ... they try to catch you off guard or try to say something you wouldn't normally say ... to see if they can get a reaction. They're trying to see how badly they can get in your mind."Regardless of the purpose of the questioning, if team officials at the Combine did ask Kasa about his sexuality, they might have violated league policy against discrimination," according to New York Post.
"Here's the elephant in the room for the teams and it shouldn't matter, but we have to step aside from the rest of reality and walk into the unique industry that is the NFL," Florio said on the Dan Patrick Show.
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