If you’re active on social media then you’ve seen tons of videos, pictures and jokes insinuating that Odell Beckham Jr. is gay.  The New York Giants wide receiver often posts videos of himself dancing on his Instagram account and people have deemed some of the things he does as “suspect”.  That’s why (to me) it’s no surprise that the people around Beckham say he was particularly perturbed during the Giants game against the Panthers because Carolina’s players hit him with homophobic slurs.  Trash talking is commonplace in sports and with insinuations like that already flying around, it’s pretty easy to come up with insults for OBJ.

Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin told Gary Myers of the New York Daily News that he’s talked to Beckham three times this week, and the gay slurs are commonplace.

“He deals with it a lot. For some reason, everybody goes after him with gay slurs. He’s a different kind of dude,” Irvin said. “He has the hairdo out, he’s not the big muscular kind of dude. The ladies all love him. He’s a star. I wonder why people are going in that direction. It blows my mind. I told him he can’t let stuff that people say get to you.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever really seen the animosity towards a receiver ever in the league right now what’s going towards this young kid,” Irvin said. “He’s contrite about it. He can’t believe that it’s pretty one-sided. The attacks are pretty one-sided. He feels so bad this is happening. He also feels like he’s been targeted. I think a lot of players are so upset that he’s getting so much press, so much exposure, without winning.”

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