Sam was the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team.
Contents:
- SAM ULD BEE NFL'S 1ST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
- MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, RETIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
SAM ULD BEE NFL'S 1ST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
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OffOnFirst Openly Gay Football Player the NFL Football Player Michael Sam is drafted by the St. Missouri's All-Ameri fensive end me out to the entire untry Sunday night and uld bee the first openly gay player Ameri's most popular sport.
"I jt want to go to the team who drafts me, " Sam told ESPN an terview that aired Sunday, "bee that team knows about me, knows that I'm gay, and also knows that I work hard. "Nobody has ever done this terviews wh ESPN, The New York Tim and Outsports, Sam said publicly for the first time that he was gay. Offensive leman Frank Garcia, who played ne seasons (1995-2003) the NFL wh the Panthers, Rams and Cardals, said Sam uld face "huge challeng" the was teammat and good iends wh fensive leman Esera Tuaolo, who announced he was gay on HBO's Real Sports 2002 — three years after he left the said although he and Tuaolo regularly hung out as teammat Carola 1999, Tuaolo never once let on that he was gay.
MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, RETIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS
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"Sam's announcement at a time gay rights and sports have llid at the Olympics Sochi. Rsia's anti-gay propaganda law has received much attentn, and cricism, bee of the gam. "By rewrg the script for untls young athlet, Michael has monstrated the learship that, along wh his imprsive skills on the field, mak him a natural f for the NFL, " said Sarah Kate Ellis, print of GLAAD, a leadg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr advocy anizatn.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
"Wh acceptance of LGBT people risg across our asts — our schools, church, and workplac — 's clear that Ameri is ready for an openly gay football star. Michael Sam, who 2014 beme the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, announced on Twter Friday eveng that he is walkg away om football for mental health reasons. After he failed to fd a al wh an NFL team, Sam signed wh the Montreal Alouett of the Canadian Football League, at which pot he beme the CFL's first openly gay player.
7, he beme the first openly gay player to play a regular season CFL game, though he did not register any tackl or sacks his appearanc. 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.
BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
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. Seven years before Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay on Monday, an all-Amerin om the Universy of Missouri risked a promisg reer wh a public claratn.
“I am an openly proud gay man, ” Michael Sam, a 24-year-old fensive end, told ESPN and the New York Tim Febary announcement followed a surprisg 12-2 season for Missouri, which won the SEC East and then the Cotton Bowl as Sam was named the SEC fensive player of the year. On Tuday, Sam thanked Nassib for jog the ranks of LGBTQ football players, payg special tribute to the donatn Nassib ma to the Trevor Project, a nonprof foced on suici Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib announced June 21 on Instagram that he is gay, makg him the first active NFL player to e out.