American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez

[quote] Will they show Aaron getting it on with guys?

I doubt you will see any man-on-man sex. You will see the actor playing Hernandez with expressions of rage/lust/shame/confusion as he looks at whatever man is the object of his attention. You'll probably see him sitting on a bed while another man peels his shirt off as the bedroom door closes. You might see him kiss another man or push a man down simulating a blow job. That's about it.

"It’s overtly sexual in a way that defines Hernandez’s life as a womanizer on the outside and a depressed, self-hating homophobe on the inside."

A football player who's a womanizer on the outside and a self-hating gay on the inside?

Sorry, not buying it. Zero stars!

Airing tonight

This story has been told a lot ever since he died but I’ll still be tuning in.

The review suggests that it portrays his dysfunction as rooted in his (queer) sexuality rather than his childhood trauma or his CTE, which was confirmed to have been far more advanced than thought possible in a player of his age. I don't need to watch a series that conflates sociopathy with homosexuality, repressed or not.

I'm watching it so far. I like Tammy Blanchard as Hernandez's mom. She's a hoot.

Tammy Blanchard is great

For those who've watched the first two episodes, are there any nude/sex scenes?

I thought the first two episodes were pretty good.

Any homosex?

There were brief nudity scenes in the second episode of hetero sex and brief scene of Hernandez on a gay hookup site and him meeting up with guy, but he leaves before they go off somewhere.

When's the steamy shower scene between Hernandez and Tim Tebow?

I know a bi guy like this, in the sense that he's a womanizer but self hating gay on the inside

[quote] The review suggests that it portrays his dysfunction as rooted in his (queer) sexuality rather than his childhood trauma or his CTE, which was confirmed to have been far more advanced than thought possible in a player of his age. I don't need to watch a series that conflates sociopathy with homosexuality, repressed or not.

Excellent point, R6, but maybe the series will not conflate sociopathy with homosexuality and instead highlight the effects of anti-gay and homophobic attitudes and abuse as the root cause of that sociopathyHe grew up in a milieu and circumstances rife with those attitudes.

R12: Any Tim Tebow nude scenes?

R16 no. The scenes of Tebow were very short of him on the football field. From the promo for next week's episode, it looks like Tebow will be featured more. Nepo baby Patrick Schwarzenegger's IMDB only lists him for 2 episodes. I know IMDB isn't always accurate.

The show doesn't paint University of Florida or Urban Meyer in the best light.

I don't think this is available to me :( Have looked everywhere. I hate living in Norway.

R14 Those are always the funnest lays

It was entertaining, but we do need to see more butts.....everybody in the locker room was covered up from waist to knees.....

Please.....more butts please.

Aaron never did the towel dance. He was disappointed when those other cocks, long or fat or stubby or otherwise, were hidden in any way in the sacred open space of the locker room.

Or in the pick up truck according to this series so far.

So far this is okay. Tammy Blanchard is amazing as the mom!

Oh I just watched the second episode again.....I must have fallen asleep.....a couple of skinny white butts and some interesting scenes when Aaron is fucking a girl but really getting off on seeing his team mates fucking girls in the same room.

R17: Good to know thanks. I think nepo baby Patrick Schwarzenegger baring it all on The White Lotus is more likely.

I know she’s done questionable things (although obviously Aaron did far worse) but I kinda feel bad for Shayanna. I believe Aaron had a preference for men but there did appear to be genuine love between him and Shayanna. In his suicide letter he called her his soulmate. The show is basically just portraying her as a beard.

Either he was genuinely into her or was just really good at faking it.

[quote]I kinda feel bad for Shayanna.

I do too, I bet his family treated her badly. She's black / biracial and some of those those working-class Puerto Ricans can be, shall we say, unenlightened.

Huddles & pileups & skin tight pants & ass slapping

Why did they release this the same time as Monster? I feel like it stole this story’s thunder

Tuesday night at 10 p.m. on FX.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

R28 I agree. It’s ironic since Aaron’s father appeared to be a black Puerto Rican ^^

In text messages Alexander Bradley later said he didn’t actually know who shot him. He didn’t have a pretty record either and was convinced for shooting up a bar I believe.

Convicted*

I wouldn’t be surprised if he shot the two Cape Verdeans too.

How come Ryan isn’t portrayed in this show?

I still want to know exactly why Aaron killed Odin Lloyd? Did Odin find out something he shouldn’t have?

What's your hunch, R38? What saith the Internet sleuths?

R39 I don’t know. Maybe Odin was privy to Aaron’s bisexuality/homosexuality and was going to tell Shayanna’s sister (who he was dating) who in turn would tell Shayanna? So Aaron decided he had to go.

Or maybe Odin threatened to out Aaron unless Aaron helped him make it to the NFL. Odin was a semi professional football player.

I thought Odin knew about Aaron shooting those Cape Verdean guys.

I think r40 has it

R42 I recall hearing that as well.

I read Jose Baez’s book (I know) and granted he’s biased but he helped me see reasonable doubt in the second murder case Aaron was acquitted of. I could see a scenario where Alexander Bradley shot them too. I definitely think Aaron shot Odin tho.

Aaron acted like he was black whenever he talked to the Pouncey brothers on the phone in jail. Also think it’s interesting he was suspected of shooting/killing mostly black men while also using other black men as accomplices, and he chose a black woman as his public girlfriend. Yet none of his suspected male lovers were black. I wonder if he made a move on Odin? They were said to be pretty close, hanging out in Aaron’s man cave and smoking weed for hours.

Yet whenever Aaron talked to Ryan on the phone in jail, he sounded more “white” and soft and romantic with him. He liked to code switch.

WEHT Aaron's prison bitch?

How was Ryan Muphy able to nail the casting in Monsters, yet did so poorly with Aaron Hernandez in American Sports Story? Smh. This acting choice is too distracting, like I have to keep reminding myself that that's really Aaron Hernandez.

I just started watching it and the shade from Ryan Murphy. They playing that Ciara song Ride because of the rumors regarding Russel Wilson’s sexuality. I just know it. Fkin cunts 😂.

The Puerto Rican papi from Juice is his dad. Fkin sexy as fuck in middle age.

This actor here isn’t bad looking. He is not as good looking as Aaron, his nose is kinda funny but he is a very good actor.

I was scandalized by the exchange that he had with the guy online about where to cum.

Wow this is moving at a rapid speed pace. Wow. It’s good though.

So apparently Erik was never gay. He just thought he was. In his testimony he said he was attracted to women.

Sorry, wrong thread.

Will DL fave Tammy Blanchard get a nomination for this dreck?

I actually like this actor a lot. He’s not drop dead gorgeous, his attractiveness more understated. Great smile. He has a spark to him.

More butts.

R57 Probably not. She's not well known. She is an actress who I wish had a bigger career.

Schwarzenegger’s son is playing Tim Tebow 😂. Bye. Tim Tebow wishes.

Oh the Indian guy. Yeah he was great.

Holy Shit I didn’t realize that was Tammy Blanchard! She’s great in this.

The lead is a decent actor, but not nearly as hunky as the real Aaron, psychopath that he was.

R63 His acting is so good it’s making him sexier. It’s just Aaron was so classically handsome with a nice nose. This actor dude is fine tho, he’s sexy as fuck.

Perhaps if Aaron had God in his life like Tim Tebow he wouldn’t have spiraled so out of control.

Is it available to stream?

It’s on Hulu.

R66 I’m watching it on Disney+

I've watched the first two episodes and it's exactly what I expected. It's not great, but engaging. They show his early gay screwing around with guys (well, a guy), but there's nothing explicit. There's only been two episodes - one showed a high school hook-up where he bails on the guy - but it was clearly implied that he had hooked up with the guy before. And in the second episode, he bails on another hookup while in college. It's presented less as "self-hating" (though he does say "I can't afford to be a faggot" in the second encounter) and more that he's paranoid and very aware of "all eyes on me" since he's a top athlete. I guess the result is the same no matter - if he's THAT paranoid, then there has to be some self hate. And if I'm remembering correctly, they do show him looking at gay porn.

His high school boyfriend is so hot. They’re both so fkin hot. Gosh I wish I could have been gay jock in high school lol. And I think we have a star in our hands ladies and gentleman. This lead is going to be huge, mark my words. The Puerto Rican Bobby D.

And the actress playing his girlfriend is bad as fuck too 😂

If you guys want to listen to Aaron’s jail calls, here’s the link. You can only listen to the ogg files.

You have to download the ogg file and then upload the file to convert it on here. Then you can listen to it.

There’s also some of his jail calls uploaded on YouTube.

Aaron’s daughter is cute. I wish her well.

Too bad they didn't have Aaron come out to Tim Tebow...or Tim Tebow come out to Aaron!

Last nights episode had Aaron eating his girlfriend’s pussy to pray the gay away.

So that’s good

Hawt. He is so hot anything sexual with him is hot.

R75 aww looks like a little Dominique Dawes or something.

R77: Thanks. Any Tim Tebow nude scenes in last night’s episode?

The lead is way hotter than real life Aaron.

R81 I kinda feel that way too now. I like Latino guys that look more black even if they’re light skin. If I want a Euro looking papi I’d just date an Italian or Spaniard.

He’s just so thuggish and manly. And a bisexual sex addict. If only he didn’t kill. I wonder if his victims were snitching. And “eff you” to any critics because I remember you whores lusting like crazy over Jeffrey Dahmer.

R76 Tim Tebow has probably never come out to a non family member or priest. Guys raised like him really think being gay is some type of disease that can be cured or a devil taking whole of someone’s soul.

Library cruising - fun!

Religious indoctrination and recruiting - less fun.

Same, R82.

Ryan Murphy is so messy the way he is making it seem like Aaron and Tebow were into each other 😂. I don’t care though; shit is fucking hot as fuck. I don’t care what anyone says. Ryan Murphy might be the GOAT.

Aaron was such an alpha. He never kissed them. But I woulda had this fine ass nigga kissing me. I always do.

This is really good. Lately I’ve been going to a Mass. That’s what has helped me to stay sober these past 2 months. However I want to better than that. I want to stop being a whore too. This show is inspiring.

Wow this is really good the way they are writing it with Tebow literally being able to be read both ways. It’s really good. Ok I’ll stop posting now 😂

The Reddit threads, unsurprisingly, are substantively stuck on the gay portrayal, many posts saying it's too much and even claiming a "gay agenda." A few posts claimed that since he dated and fucked women, that wasn't shown enough. I don't know what they're expecting with a sensationalized Ryan Murphy production in light of the fact that Hernandez actually did fuck around with men.

R92 There are a lot of closet Mos in college sports watching this Tuesday nights with their beards. Except the beards don’t know they are beards 😂.

His real life girlfriend is the new Snow White btw.

Another good episode!

Do they show any actual …

Not explicitly, only suggestively.

What is his real life bf doing now? He visited him in jail or called him... he was a cute Twink

Just caught up with all three episodes thanks to FX's 'video on demand'. I'm not really liking the actor who plays AH. AH was so much more handsome and sexier - and he had a better body. But aside from that, he is delivering a good performance. The show moves pretty quickly, and the other cast members are very good.

[quote]I read Jose Baez’s book

It's on sale on Kindle for $1.99 today.

There are blow job scenes but not actual sex. There was a gay chicken scene where a guy with a big black hard-on walked toward a guy sitting down but it looked like a fake dick. Other than that not a lot of the homo sex.

Birthday Money is the best episode so far

It’s a shame how things ended because Aaron should’ve had a great life.

I hope Aaron’s brother DJ doesn’t get triggered by this show and gets in trouble with the law again. He’s been losing it lately.

Josh Rivera’s acting was impressive in this episode.

I liked the scene with Shayanna in the grocery store.

However let’s never forget the victim of the real Aaron Hernandez. Fkin psychopath murdered this poor brother.

R107 Yeah Aaron’s life was a tragedy because he not only ruined his life, but other lives as well.

But I liked how this series is showing how everyone failed him.

I haven’t seen episode 4 yet but it seems like Ryan Murphy is suggesting CTE, self loathing homophobia, and the jealousy around his mother’s boyfriend led him to murder Odin Lloyd.

I know it’s Ryan Murphy but the scenes of Aaron constantly hooking up with guys every episode is getting redundant. He had a lot of things going on that are hardly touched upon in comparison.

I heard Odin Lloyd is only going to be featured in one episode (in which he gets killed), but considering Aaron was found guilty for his murder, the show should portray their friendship more in depth before things ended tragically. His friendships with Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace (who were convicted of being accomplices to the murder) also haven’t really been portrayed in depth. Nor has his relationship with Shayanna who many people believe disposed of the murder weapon. There should also be a whole episode about his friendship with Alexander Bradley and how it turned sour.

R112 Shayanna’s sister was dating Lloyd and according to her they weren’t as close as the media suggests. They were just starting to become friends. I used to think there was a perhaps a secret gay romance between them when all the gay stuff started coming but I don’t think so now. I do however think Lloyd found out about his sexuality.

R113 I don’t think they were BFF’s or anything but they did appear to be good friends in the short time they knew each other. Aaron was renting out cars to Odin, they would spend hours hanging out in Aaron’s mancave, they both smoked weed together and they both were football players, etc. Odin could’ve been Aaron’s brother in law one day. I just don’t think one episode is enough to develop their friendship and then show or explain why Aaron suddenly turned against Odin and wanted him dead.

R114 I see I see.

The motive in the second murder case that Daniel and Safiro (the Cape Verdeans who were killed) spilled a drink on Aaron and that’s caused him to kill them an hour later doesn’t make much sense to me. Granted the Odin murder doesn’t make sense either but I can understand it more since people tend to be killed by people they know. In the case of Odin, if he was privy to information about Aaron’s bisexuality/homosexuality, the motive for murder would make sense since Aaron didn’t want that to get out while he was in the NFL. No one at the club witnessed a spilled drink exchange between Aaron and Safiro and Daniel. Alexander Bradley was no angel either and once shot up a club. The silver SUV being hidden at the house of Aaron’s cousin Tanya shows he was involved, but it’s possible Alexander shot them too. I saw security footage at the club from the night of the murders and you can see one of the victims looking at Alexander a few times while they were waiting in line. Maybe those guys already knew him.

I also learned that several NFL players helped pay for Aaron’s second trial, which explains how he was able to afford his defense team. Was it the Pouncey brothers? Deonte Thompson showed solidarity to Aaron while leaving the stand. Fred Taylor didn’t initially believe Aaron killed himself because they spoke on the phone a day before. Cam Newton speaks positively about Aaron while still acknowledging that bad stuff happened because of him. Meanwhile everybody went in on Aaron at Tom Brady’s roast and several players from that team don’t seem to have anything positive to say about him.

I'm thinking it was the Pouncey brothers and maybe other NFL players who were teammates of Hernandez at U of Florida. He might have a tighter bond with those teammates than he did with teammates on the Patriots.

The Boston Globe released a podcast about Hernandez through Wondery back in 2018. It was called Gladiator. I listened to it when it first came out. Brandon Lloyd who played one season with Hernandez talked about how he was warned early on by Wes Welker about Hernandez's behavior

[quote]“He stops me and, kind of touches me on my shoulders and he’s looking at me wide-eyed in my face and he says, ‘Your locker is in between [Rob] Gronkowski and Hernandez. I just want to warn you that he’s going to talk about being bathed by his mother. He’s going to have his genitalia out in front of you while you’re sitting out on your stool. He’s going to have his towel and try to dry off in front of you while you’re sitting at your locker. He’s going to talk about gay sex. Just do your best to ignore it. Even walk away.’ So, even before I met Aaron on a personal level, that was how I was warned about him prior to getting to my locker,” said Lloyd

This article references some of the other drama that went down with Hernandez and other Pats teammates that was mentioned in the podcast.

I'll probably listen to the podcast again later this week. There are some things I probably forgot about that they covered which might not be covered on the FX show.

Maybe Welker was talking about Gronk.

Is Tebow still married to the beard?

Oh no, the sexual assault flashback.

Hot scene with the trainer. Well, implied hot, nothing explicit really happened on screen.

Oh I see-his sexual abuse CAUSED his homosexuality. Now I understand.

I remember the arrest on tv. Red shorts- no underwear-floppy dick. I never knew he sucked dick or that he was dead but who cares. We got bigger problems.

The coach is hot.

This series will catch the same flack as Menendez for being too hyperbolic about any gay subtext to the lives and crimes. I say bravo to Ryan Murphy for showing straight America the fucking truth. And more so for this football story with black and latin culture. Most people in those three cultures tried to shut down this gay aspect of the Hernandez saga.

That said I have seen many docs about this story and, well, this is a pretty dark and depressing way to spend ones time, this series.

[quote]There was a gay chicken scene where a guy with a big black hard-on walked toward a guy sitting down but it looked like a fake dick.

As I watched this on FX VOD, they pixeled out the cock. I don't know why they would do that if it was seen on the other formats (I wonder if they pixeled it out on the network run? ).

In the first trial it came out that Aaron cheated on Shayanna a lot with other women, including trying to romance their nanny.

At the second trial I believe she found out he also cheated on her with men, like Ryan.

The problem with focusing so much on his sexuality is it’s making it seem like Aaron was violent largely because he liked guys too, instead of the fact his brain was severely damaged.

Wasn't he violent before the brain damage as well? I'm NOT saying it was due to his sexuality; more so his father and other people around him.

From Google AI:

[quote]According to Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center director Ann McKee, Aaron Hernandez had stage 3 CTE, which was the WORST SHE'D SEEN IN SOMEONE WHO DIED AT AGE 27.

The CTE could have been getting progressively worse from high school on. It's a good candidate for the cause of at least some of the violent behavior, but we'll never know what he'd have been like without it.

From another source:

[quote] Aaron Hernandez Reportedly Wanted To Be A Cheerleader But His ‘Deeply Homophobic’ Dad Wouldn’t Accept It

[quote] Dennis Hernandez (Aaron's father) had long had concerns that Aaron, as a boy, had a feminine way about him — the way he stood or used his hands, his brother said. He also remembered one of Aaron’s early ambitions that sent their father over the edge.

[quote] “I remember he wanted to be a cheerleader. My cousins were cheerleaders and amazing,” Jonathan said. “And I remember coming home and like my dad put an end to that really quick. And it was not OK. My dad made it clear that … he had his definition of a man.”

[quote] The home environment, in general, was deeply homophobic.

[quote] ‘Faggot’ was used all the time in our house,” Jonathan said. “All the time. Standing. Talking. Acting. Looking. It was the furthest thing my father wanted you to even look like in our household. This was not acceptable to him.”

R125 Aaron’s energy is indeed very dark and sad.

Rewatching the Oxygen documentary

It was hot when he hooked up with his physio.

Aaron also had nice penmanship. I was surprised about that for some reason.

Yeah they guy playing Urban Meyer is hot as hell and can get it. He is apparently a broadway actor - and straight...boo.

Ooooh, I agree R136! He's a hottie. Here he is doing his thing...

I find it hard to believe Urban has not tasted the cock.

Urban is a notorious pussy hound. Wasn't he finger bangin' some chick at a bar in plain sight? I personally am way turned off by itty bitty man lips. He has 'em. The actor playing him is indeed hot, though.

[Quote] I hate living in Norway.

Well, you have a world class educational system, universal healthcare, extremely low crime, a very high standard of living, and great natural beauty.

But we have cheesy pot boiling tv. Ha ha ha! We win.

[quote]The CTE could have been getting progressively worse from high school on.

Why do you think it only started in high school? I'm sure he played football before that.

I know a guy like this, he has an overbearing father, very critical and he even thought my friend was gay... when my friend was 16, his dad asked, " you getting any pussy?" Then he started to date girls ...

He dates and fucks both sexes but I think he suppressed his real self due to his dad and family.

He didn’t like he was going to kill himself.

He didn’t sound like*

Idk why but I feel profound sadness whenever I revisit this story. I hope they don’t do anymore Aaron projects after this until like the 20 year anniversary of his murder conviction or suicide.

If Shay and/or Ryan ever write a book in the future, I would be down to buy them.

I think I want to take a break from the show and will binge the rest when it’s over. Revisiting this story brings me to a dark place. I hope everyone who’s still here and affected by this tragedy finds peace.