Players on 22 NFL teams have already had an out gay teammate, cludg six players wh the Arizona Cardals.
Contents:
- PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
- AARON RODGERS' PACKERS TEAMMAT ONCE REPORTEDLY THOUGHT HE WAS GAY BEE OF A BIZARRE REASON: "HE WASN’T ONE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS P*NIS SIZE"
- EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
- THE 46 NFL PLAYERS WOULD SUPPORT AN OPENLY GAY TEAMMATE
- THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
- A GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER, 'ALONE THE TRENCH'
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
Aaron Rodgers went on his weekly rad show on Tuday and quashed a mor that he's gay. "I'm not gay. I really, really like women," Rodgers said. * packers gay player *
That Rodgers is gay. "I'm jt gog to say I'm not gay, " Rodgers said on 540 WAUK-AM Milwkee. That ment led host Jason Wil to brg up the 'Aaron Rodgers is gay' mor.
-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Aaron Rodgers was once spected of beg gay.
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AARON RODGERS' PACKERS TEAMMAT ONCE REPORTEDLY THOUGHT HE WAS GAY BEE OF A BIZARRE REASON: "HE WASN’T ONE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS P*NIS SIZE"
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A mor circulated around the locker room that he was gay, based upon the fact that — unlike many of his teammat — he wasn’t one to brag about his penis size or his endls strg of sexual nquts.
EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
Esera Tuaolo played many years the Natnal Football League while hidg a secret om teammat: he's gay. He tells Liane Hansen about his memoir of the experience: Alone the Trench. * packers gay player *
"Twenty years of speakg and gog out there and tg people on homophobia sports and the LGBTQ muny, the big qutn has been, 'When will the first active NFL player e out?
"That's when Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib told the world that he was gay, a revelatn that will make him the first openly gay active player the NFL when he sus up 2021. He revealed he was gay 2002 an terview wh HBO's Real Sports, makg him the third former NFL player to e out.
THE 46 NFL PLAYERS WOULD SUPPORT AN OPENLY GAY TEAMMATE
Tuaolo has been part of the shiftg tis as an advote, givg speech, appearg ernment heargs, appearg on TV shows and wrg his tobgraphy 2006, "Alone the Trench: My Life As a Gay Man the NFL. He's gog to be bombard by so many thgs, by so many people, and now he's the 'gay player, ' they're gog to be npickg everythg he do, like they did wh Michael Sam, " Tuaolo said, referrg to the openly gay Universy of Missouri star who was drafted the seventh round and never played an NFL game. Matt Gay (Indianapolis Colts) - 80 Overall.
The NFL season is s openg weekend and once aga there are no openly gay players, the same s been sce the league started 98 years ago.
Over the years, Outsports and other media have asked players their views on LGBT issu general and whether they would wele an openly gay teammate. There have been dozens of players who said they would accept a gay teammate, wh a lot of them beg asked the qutn when Michael Sam me out as an openly gay draft pick 2014. And any out gay player is gog to need straight alli the locker room sce the latter will far outnumber the former.
THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
Gay-supportive NFL players. The eight players would support a gay teammate (om 2018). The New England Patrts lemen would support a gay teammate (om 2018.
14 NFL Pro Bowlers say they would wele a gay teammate (om 2017). 62 active NFL players who have ma statements support of gays (om 2013). Carson Palmer, 12 Indianapolis Colts would embrace openly gay teammate (om 2013).
A GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER, 'ALONE THE TRENCH'
Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib sent shockwav throughout the NFL world on Monday by beg the first active NFL player to e out as a gay man. Hopefully his cisn will not only enurage and support others the league who are ncerned about g out but also young gay men who are aaid to play the game they love out of fear of beg exclud, judged, or ostracized simply bee of their sexual orientatn. Back 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay man drafted by an NFL anchise when the then-St.
Sam was released by the Rams and also spent some time on the Dallas Cowboys practice squad before he beme the first openly gay player the Canadian Football League when he joed the Montreal Alouett 2015.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
However, there was one player before Sam who tly shattered stereotyp and started blazg a trail for gay men football and that player was drafted by none other than the Green Bay Packers.
The big difference between Sam and Tuaolo was that when Tuaolo was selected by the Packers the send round of the 1991 draft, no one knew he was gay. Let’s take a moment to remember how homosexualy was perceived Ameri 30 years ago.
Still, homosexualy was still owned upon largely by society.