It's no statement. It's just another game. Statements won't be made until the playoffs.

This wasn't any kind of statement -- you make statements in the playoffs. This was just playing a game against a very good team.

I'm not going to start the game by cracking a cat in the skull if I don't get elbowed first.

We're the underdogs here, no question. So it's the kind of game that can really get you going for the rest of the year if you pull it off.

The statement was very similar to the statements he's given previously,

We didn't make a lot of political statements. The political statement was just the fact that we existed for eight years and we existed early. We're just going to make it easier for other shows to have gay characters without having to put a spotlight on them as gay characters.