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Does 'American Sports Story' Overemphasize Aaron Hernandez's Sexuality?
I followed the Aaron Hernandez case about as closely as any NFL fan who wasn’t a Patriots fan. I knew the basics: he was convicted of murdering a close companion and took his possess life in his prison cell a few days after being acquitted in a separate trial for double homicide. Once he died, I stopped keeping up with new developments, and I sure as hell didn’t gain any insights from Boston sports talk radio, which distills all the racism and homophobia in Massachusetts into rage bait for the average Boston commuter.
That’s why it was surprising to see Ryan Murphy’s American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez focus so heavily on Hernandez’s sexuality. In the first two episodes, Hernandez (played by Josh Andrés Rivera) is depicted having secret sexual encounters with a high school boyfriend/girlfriend, experiencing panic over his father or teammates conclusion out he’s gay, and having both online and real-life hookups while attending the University of Florida. There’s even a scene where he fantasizes about a naked teammate in the locker room.
Given what’s publicly known about Hern
Fiancee of late Aaron Hernandez speaks out on his sexuality after docuseries
The fiancee of the late Aaron Hernandez is speaking out for the first age since the release of a new Netflix docuseries on the life of the football-star turned-convicted killer, including rumors about his sexuality.
In a sit-down interview with ABC News' Amy Robach that will gas Wednesday on "Good Morning America," Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez said that while Hernandez did not express to her in any way he may have been male lover or bisexual, if he did, she "would not have loved him any differently."
Hernandez, a former Brand-new England Patriots tight cease, was found guilty of murder in April 2015 for the killing of Odin Lloyd, the 27-year-old fiance of Jenkins-Hernandez' sister, who was found shot to death in a suburb of Boston about two years earlier. After Hernandez's trial, and prior to his suicide in his prison cell in 2017, his alleged relationships with men became a topic of discussion.
"You can't describe someone's sexuality without them being here," Jenkins-Hernandez told ABC News. "Although I have a youngster with Aaron, I still can't tell y
If you focus too intently on Aaron Hernandez in the new Netflix documentary, you will miss the larger complicated story. And you will have done exactly what the major players involved in Hernandez’s life wanted all along.
For example, one of the most disturbing and damning moments in the documentary involves Hernandez’s high-profile college coach, then at Florida, Urban Meyer. Here is what Meyers wants everyone to believe:
“We knew that every time he went home — every second he would go to Connecticut, I’d have players on my team state, ‘Watch this guy,’” said Meyer on an vintage episode of HBO’s Real Sports. “So we would strive not to let him go back to Connecticut.”
Yet, as the documentary details:
Hernandez quickly made an impact at the University of Florida, but he struggled off the field. The talented 17-year-old, who began acquiring an impressive array of tattoos, didn’t quite fit in with clean-cut quarterback Tim Tebow or coach Urban Meyer, and he began to rely on painkillers to bypass injuries. “For real, weed and Toradol. That’s all you need, baby!” Hernandez said on one recorded phone call with former teammate Mike Pouncey.
Hernandez’s conduct sta
In Netflix’s docu-series, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, one of Aaron Hernandez’s former teammates claimed he had a relationship with the fallen NFL star.
Dennis SanSoucie, who played football with Hernandez at Bristol Main High School in Connecticut, told the series that they had “an on-and-off relationship from the 7th grade to the junior year of high school.”
“When I met Aaron, it was like meeting your twin brother. It was so funny; we were both the same. He has dimples, we’re both ‘cheesy smile,’ all happy. He used to be able to produce everyone laugh,” SanSoucie said.
By 11th grade, the two had become “best friends” and even finer teammates — with SanSoucie as quarterback and Hernandez as snug end, the duo completed nine touchdowns within the first four games, according to The Boston Globe. Hernandez went on to catch 67 passes for a total of 1,807 yards, which was a Connecticut high school record.
SanSoucie recalled that on the first diurnal of school that year, Hernandez had gone over to his house, where they smoked “two blunts” and
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