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Them to an island and nuke it until it glows. did other teammates hear him say these things. >> yeah, there are witnesses to all the things i put in that piece on dead spin. i made sure i had witnesses. otherwise that's a defamation of character case. >> that scope, particularly the special teams coordinator he denies this, he says he has gay family members, what did you make of that? >> well, you know, it's not like he's going to come out and say, yeah, i said all those things, please end my career now, generally these things go through a certain legal process, i'm confident in everything tha...

>> well, i would say that i don't have anything against the vikings organization itself. i had eight wonderful years with the vikings. it was great to hear ziggy come up to me and proclaim his support. i had a problem with three individual people within the vikings. i did everything my coaches wanted me to do. no one told me i wasn't doing what i was supposed to do. the only thing that changed is i started speaking out on same sex rights. >> the coach of the team said to you, please stop doing this, and he quoted another coach who said, something to the effect a smart coach once told me, a pla...

Nuke it until it glows. he says you're going to hell along with the other gays. did other people, other teammates hear him say these things? >> yeah, there are witnesses to all the things i put in that piece on deadspin. and you know, i made sure that i had witnesses, because otherwise, that's a very easy defamation of character case, and you know, it would be pretty easy for him to prevail in a court of law. >> because that coach, particularly the special teams coordinator, he categorically denies this, says he has gay family members. what do you make of that? >> well, you know, it's not like...

Cut from the vikings because of his advocacy for same-sex marriage in the state of minnesota. he said on multiple occasions special teams coordinator used homophobic language in his presence, once saying we should round them all the gays, send them to an island and nuke it till it glows. kluwe says he was asked to tone down his advocacy for gay rights as well. those allegations are strongly denied. the vikings say they're going to take the accusations seriously and thoroughly review this matter. >> as you said, he was cut last year. any sense of why kluwe decided to write the letter now? >> he...