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A look back at how William Gay overtook Rod Woodson on the Ptsburgh Steelers' all-time regular season "pick 6" rerd book

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FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY

Outsports has received gay mors about athlet for years. Though that trend is clg. * gay pittsburgh steelers *

Stewart, who is not gay, said he felt attacked by the cy of Ptsburgh for the mor, which he said the Steelers found was started by an dividual lol police officer. It was ls than a month after we lnched the se that Stewart publicly addrsed mors that he was gay, and that he had talked about wh his Ptsburgh Steelers teammat.

How do we handle “mors” that so-and-so athlete is gay?

We knew that two gay guys wrg about sports was already gog to brg wh some raised eyebrows and doubt.

KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS

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While Jim had been out as a sports edor, gay guys wrg sports were few and far between. We started Outsports — those very early days — simply as a place for gay men to e talk sports. Korll Stewart’s Players Tribune piece last week, tailg the personal and profsnal issu created by havg “gay” mors out there, explas why.

STEELERS THROWBACK THURSDAY: GAY, OVER WOODSON, OWNS “PICK-6” RERD PTSBURGH

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To be sure, beg gay is not a bad thg. Callg someone gay is not famatory, whether they are or not. And certaly not the gay muny.

WILLIAM GAY

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Like I said, we have addrsed a handful of gay-athlete mors the past, almost each time g the mors to expla why they are problematic.

As speculatn mounted 2012, my piece — Is Tim Tebow gay? “If Tebow is gay, ” I wrote, “he is buried beneath so much crap he many never get out om unr . The one athlete we’ve handled slightly differently — Troy Aikman — we’ve done so part bee he’s actually ma problematic ments about beg gay, sayg ’s “a liftyle people choose.

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday, ” we turn our gaze to William Gay and Rod Woodson… and the plays that helped the former tie the latter terceptns for a regular season touchdown – “pick 6s” – and snag the top rerd the books. Based jt on those ems mentned above, many Steelers fans would not put Gay the same tier of memorable Ptsburgh players…. Gay actually had two stts Ptsburgh.

STEELERS RE-SIGN WILLIAM GAY

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In 2012, Gay signed wh the Arizona Cardals and played unr fensive backs ach Dhea Townsend, a former teammate Ptsburgh. Steelers Throwback Thursday: Will Gay’s pick six ti Rod Woodson for Steelers rerd.

Gay’s time the sert was short-lived, however, and the Steelers re-signed him 2013.

In 2014, Gay had arguably his bt reer season. Gay also rerd 12 pass fens, 69 bed tackl (58 solo), and a table for a loss.

WILLIAM GAY WILL STAY PTSBURGH WH 3-YEAR AL

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The followg season (2015), Gay tied Woodson’s standg regular season “pick 6” regular season rerd that statistic agast the Ccnati Bengals. That “pick 6” gave Gay a bump up the Steelers rerd book over Woodson regular season play. It wasn’t bee he had more – they both had five total – but Gay did ls seasons wh Ptsburgh.

HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON

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At that pot, Gay had jt seven total seasons wh Ptsburgh to Woodson’s ten (nsecutive). As stands, Gay (13) never surpassed Woodson’s total reer terceptns. It took Gay 160 gam as a Steelers player to reach that mark to 134 gam for Woodson.

In the end, neher Gay or Woodson earned a post-season terceptn for a touchdown their reers, cludg their time Ptsburgh. The weekend’s events will ntue wh a street ftival Bloomfield on Penn State fensive end Carl Nassib me out as the NFL’s first active openly gay player 2021. How old is William Gay?

William Gay is 38 years old. When was William Gay born?

NFL F DEANGELO WILLIAMS, WILLIAM GAY FOR UNIFORM VLATNS

William Gay was born on January 1, 1985. Where was William Gay born?

William Gay was born Tallahassee, FL. How tall is William Gay?

STEELERS THROWBACK THURSDAY: GAY, OVER WOODSON, OWNS “PICK-6” RERD PTSBURGH

William Gay is 5-10 (178 cm) tall. How much did William Gay weigh when playg?

William Gay weighed 187 lbs (84 kg) when playg.

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