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In Case You Didn’t Hear, Strahan Might Like Dudes…
The wife of New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan coyly accused her husband of having an extramarital affair with another man, TV doctor Ian Smith, in their divorce proceedings on Tuesday, the New York Daily News is reporting.
“Michael moved into Ian’s one-bedroom apartment,” Jean Strahan said, according to the Daily News. “And you can say an alternative lifestyle sprouted.” Her lawyer then stopped her before she could elaborate, the Daily News reports.
Both Robert Penza, Michael Strahan’s attorney, and Smith denied a sexual relationship between Smith and Strahan.
After her client made the claim, Ellen Marshall, Jean Strahan’s lawyer, seemingly tried to back away from the suggestion of a homosexual relationship between the two men.
“I don’t think she’s making a definitive allegation,” Marshall, said, according to the Daily News. “Couples have private squabbles. This is one of them.”
The divorce proceedings have been splashed across the front pages of the New York tabloids and has blown into a public spectacle. Both sides have accused the other of going on reckless shopping sprees; and on Monday, Jean Strahan was reported to have broken down during some of her husband’s testimony.
Smith is best-known as a regular contributor on ABC’s “The View” and VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club.” He also writes a medical column for Men’s Health.
On Tuesday, Smith seemed to claim that, because he is a “happily married man,” it was impossible for him to have been in a sexual relationship with Strahan. However, not only are the cases of married men having sex with one another well-documented, but it has become so common among black men that it even has a name – “the down low.”
Books like J.L. King’s On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of “Straight” Black Men Who and Keith Boykin’s Beyond the Down Low have debunked the notion that sex between two married black men who consider themselves “straight” is impossible. The “down low” lifestyle is generally faulted for the rise in the HIV-contraction rate within the black community.
Strahan is a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and owns the NFL single-season sack record with 22.5.
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I’m going to be dead honest with you, I only posted this so I could use my Johnny Cakes graphic. 
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8:50 am on June 23rd, 2006
I don’t think he’d lie on the Opie & Anthony show !
“Television health commentator Ian Smith yesterday denied allegations that he had a gay relationship with New York Giant Michael Strahan after the football player’s wife threw him out of their Montclair home last year.
Appearing on the morning radio show “Opie and Anthony,” Smith called the statement “laughable” and said he was a happily married man. He said it was ironic because he had counseled Strahan to take the high road and not bash his wife during their divorce proceeding.”
9:10 am on June 23rd, 2006
Good find! This isn’t a story I am really interested in following. I really wanted to use the J Cakes pictures.