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    Ex Cowboys Barry Switzer Rails on Transgender Athletes: 'They Don't Belong!'

    By Richie Whitt,

    4 hours ago

    The Dallas Cowboys may still be America's Team. But their past is quickly becoming America's Conservative Team.

    Last week it was ex-receiver Dez Bryant who riled up a portion of the country by claiming, "God didn't create us to be gay."

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    Now comes an even bigger name from an even more distant era ... former head coach Barry Switzer. He led the Cowboys to Super Bowl XXX, which turned out to be the last championship in franchise history.

    But he's also admittedly no choir boy, evidenced by his biographical book. Bootlegger's Boy .

    Switzer has never been afraid to speak his mind. And now, at age 86, a controversy in the recent Olympics apparently got him riled up.

    Two female boxers - who are not transgender but have had high testosterone levels - sparked controversy and outrage from some in Paris who were somehow "sure" that the women competing were actually men. While not commenting directly about Algerian boxer Algerian Imane Khelif - who won gold in the women's welterweight division - Switzer unleashed on transgender athletes in general.

    "Hell yes. Hell yeah I don’t want their a-- in there," Switzer said in an interview with Dan Dakich over the weekend. "It doesn’t make sense. Ain’t that something. It just upsets the hell out of me. You know I’m just one guy out there that if you ask if they belong out there, hell no they don’t belong there."

    Switzer, who won three college football national championships at Oklahoma, said coaches in his era would have laughed at the notion of transgender athletes. What some call inclusivity and progress, he sees as lunacy.

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    "I don’t support that, and millions of people like me don’t support that," he said. "Hundreds of millions of people like me don’t support that. That’s ridiculous that we have that.

    "We deal with crazy sh*t today, I’m telling you. It’s unbelievable what we have to deal with. But it was different in our era."

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