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MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

Carl Nassib is the first to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rt are still trailblazers. * openly gay ex footballers *

The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly. 16 and the first one to e out as gay while on an active roster. Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired.

The NFL Network produced a documentary on Smh beg gay. Jenks is gay and this was the the first time he wily discsed his sexual orientatn.

In June, Carl Nassib of the Rairs me out as gay.

OPENLY GAY EX-LLEGE PLAYER GETS EMOTNAL ABOUT CARL NASSIB'S ANNOUNCEMENT: 'RPECT'

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Stt Frantz hoped this moment would first openly gay Power 5 llege football player to pete, he hoped that the NFL barrier would break, even though he ultimately didn’t break after Frantz failed to land on an NFL roster when he clared for the 2020 draft, he worried: Would five years elapse before an NFL player openly me out as gay?

5 reer sacks sce 2016, announced he is gay via an Instagram post and vio. He uld save livMORE:Who is Carl Nassib, the NFL's first openly gay active player?

FORMER NFL PLAYER: THERE ARE GAY, BISEXUAL PLAYERS ON EVERY PRO FOOTBALL TEAM

In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same. * openly gay ex footballers *

”Frantz first told his Kansas State teammat he was gay 2016, durg his redshirt hman season. ” Even so, he felt like he let the gay muny down when his historic llegiate n didn’t advance to the pro level.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

“I wanted to be that person gay kids uld look up to. “There’s such a stereotype around gay men pecially, that gay men don’t play football and gay men aren’t those type of guys.

PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP AMID WORLD CUP NTROVERSY

… Carl’s showg: No, you n be a gay man and play a mascule sport and sign a $25 ln ntract to play football.

EX-NFL PLAYER RYAN O'CALLAGHAN, WHO IS OPENLY GAY, ON JON GN: 'IT'S NEVER OK' TO E HOMOPHOBIC SLURS

“You n be a gay guy and play football and get 20-pl sacks the NFL. ”Hopefully soon, Frantz and Nassib and many around the NFL, cludg missner Roger Gooll, say an openly gay football player will not be newsworthy. ”Frantz adopted the same approach after he me out as openly gay.

“It’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m gay.

Natnal FootballLeague team has at least one gay or bisexual player, acrdg to openly gay former player Ryan O’Callaghan, but they fear backlash for g out cludg losg sponsorships or even their place on the roster. “I thk ’s safe to say there’s at least one on every team who is eher gay or bisexual.

THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

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JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY

Male sports leagu, progrs has been player Robbie Rogers beme the first openly gay athlete actively playg U. Major league sports 2013, followed later that year by basketball player Jason NFL has yet to see an openly gay player on the field, and fewer than 10have e out first was David Kopay, now 77, who opened up about his sexualy 1975, three years after retirg.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

”In 2014, player Michael Sam opened up about beg gay before beg drafted to the St.

Louis Rams, but was ultimately cut om the team before playg a profsnal went on to play for the Montreal Alouett as the first openly gay player the Canadian Football League before retirg for mental health reasons one of the few openly gay former U.

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There have been 11 known gay players NFL history - Outsports .

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