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• LAS VEGAS RAIRS LEMAN CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• RAIRS’ FENSIVE END CARL NASSIB MAK HISTORY AS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• RAIRS PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER NFL HISTORY
• COLUMN: CARL NASSIB’S BUT AS AN OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER IS A BIG AL
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS
• GAY AND BI FORMER NFL PLAYERS EXCED TO SEE CARL NASSIB TAKE THE FIELD FOR RAIRS
• GAY RAIRS PLAYER CARL NASSIB TAK PERSONAL DAY ‘TO PROCS’ AFTER RELEASE OF JON GN’S OLD EMAILS
• CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT
• CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY
• RAIRS DE BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• ONLY OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER TAK PERSONAL DAY AFTER GN'S HOMOPHOBIC EMAILS REVEALED
• GAY RAIR MEM?
• FAN AT RAIRS GAME TO SUPPORT OPENLY GAY DE CARL NASSIB: 'WHEN HE ME OUT, STCK A CHORD'
• RAIRS'S GN RIGNS AFTER ANTI-GAY, SEXIST MENTS EMAILS

LAS VEGAS RAIRS LEMAN CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said his vio msage om his home Wt Chter, Pennsylvania. Burke has been a major proponent of LGBTQ rights for more than a sce his late son Brendan me out as gay. “Proud to support Carl and his cisn to e out as the first active gay player the NFL, ” Burke said.

“Congrats to Carl Nassib on g out that’s a big step, I thk that most players are ncerned if you n play or not, ” Merriman a post sayg he was proud of Nassib, Hall of Famer Warren Moon said he played wh several gay football players a storied pro reer that spanned om 1978 to 2000 but none were “fortable enough to go public. ”More than a dozen NFL players have e out as gay after their reers were Universy of Missouri fensive star Michael Sam was the first openly gay football player ever selected the NFL draft, gog the seventh round to the then-St. As I procsed Carl Nassib’s amazg, powerful announcement that he is gay, I immediately thought of Al Davis.

A player om his beloved Silver and Black ma history beg the first active NFL player to e out as gay. Y, Michael Sam was drafted 2014 and he beme the first openly gay player to be drafted, but he never played a regular season NFL game.

RAIRS’ FENSIVE END CARL NASSIB MAK HISTORY AS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. Amy Trask was the NFL’s first woman executive the game and now Nassib is the first openly gay player the NFL. Acrdg to Outsports, 15 players have e out as gay or bi after their reers have end but none while they’re actively playg the NFL, so Nassib is a te pneer and he will forever be remembered for this urageo move.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

When Michael Sam was tryg to stick the league, someone close to him told me that he received several lls om players the NFL who were gay and hadn’t e out. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N. FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay.

RAIRS PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER NFL HISTORY

ViotranscripttranscriptCarl Nassib Be First Openly Gay Active N. I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. Player to publicly clare that he is gay.

“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt. I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth. L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.

“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L. ”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N. The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N.

COLUMN: CARL NASSIB’S BUT AS AN OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER IS A BIG AL

Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N. Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over. David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS

He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end. Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N. ”In recent years, the league has publicly supported Pri Month through promotnal efforts like changg official social media avatars to clu rabows and supportg the You Can Play Project, which provis rourc to enurage clivy youth sports, even as some players have ma rogatory statements about gay people wh ltle penalty or supported groups that oppose gay Wewerka for The New York TimIn 2013, Chris Culliver of the San Francis 49ers and Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks ma offensive ments when asked about the prospect of havg a gay teammate.

“Got no gay people on the team, ” Culliver said. ”San Francis nng back Garrison Hearst apologized 2002 for g a slur and sayg he wouldn’t want a gay player as a teammate. His ment me after the former Mnota Vikgs player Esera Tuaolo publicly me out as gay that year after he had retired.

GAY AND BI FORMER NFL PLAYERS EXCED TO SEE CARL NASSIB TAKE THE FIELD FOR RAIRS

Players like Brendon Ayanbajo, who played wh the Baltimore Ravens, fend same-sex marriage and gay rights and supported Sam at the time.

Player to Announce He’s Gay.

GAY RAIRS PLAYER CARL NASSIB TAK PERSONAL DAY ‘TO PROCS’ AFTER RELEASE OF JON GN’S OLD EMAILS

Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player history to announce that he is gay. Only until recently, thanks to my fay and iends, pecially Connor, Cason and Francis, did seem possible for me to say publicly and proudly that I am gay.

I was able to reach Dave Kopay, who me out as gay 1975 after retirg om a ne-year NFL reer, and he was ecstatic. No openly active gay or bi player has ever played a down an NFL regular season game.

Assumg had, I gus bee there was so much lor om all around to soak , felt strange not seeg a rabow, given the lack of hoopla durg the preason was a pretty good ht that the first game of the season for the Rairs’ Carl Nassib, the NFL’s first openly gay player, wasn’t gog to be treated as a momento ocsn. Certaly nowhere near the kd of fanfare the NBA’s Jason Colls received 2013 when he beme the first openly gay active player any of the big four sports, while no one expected a para, the ath of this NFL bogeyman warranted a bigger funeral.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT

I jt don’t want people to start actg like wasn’t as recently as 2018 that at least one team was still askg prospects qutns about their sexual orientatn durg terviews at the be, prumably to avoid draftg gay players. Of fearg you might lose your job for beg gay or bisexual.

The next week, the NFL clar, “Football is gay, ” and sudnly what was once thought of as impossible was ma fairly pestrian. One school, the Universy of Hawaii, once changed s football team’s name om Rabow Warrrs bee the rabow “really put a stigma on our program at tim regards to ’s part of the gay muny.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

In one Rairs hype vio, Nassib was featured fairly early, which felt like the anizatn’s way of acknowledgg the history whout the emphasis Michael Sam received when he beme the first openly gay man to be drafted downplayed, a part of me felt gaslighted. If a person didn’t know better, they uld image that Nassib was the first openly gay man good enough to play the league, when fact the league had had a culture that purposefully kept out gay men like Nassib.

RAIRS DE BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

People who played fear bee for the first 100 years the NFL wasn’t gay. May the next 100 years ntue to make up for that discrimatn, perhaps even a formal apology to the Dave Kopays of the any se, at least Kopay and pany now have the memory of Carl Nassib beg the hero his first game as an openly gay player.

The Las Vegas Rairs are releasg Carl Nassib, the fensive end who ma history last year as the first openly gay active player NFL history.

NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

“The Rairs, the NFL, have monstrated that they support this man as a gay man, ” Zeigler said, addg that Nassib’s succsful rerd will help him quickly fd a new team.

ONLY OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER TAK PERSONAL DAY AFTER GN'S HOMOPHOBIC EMAILS REVEALED

” Former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan, who me out as gay June 2017, after his time the league, said Nassib’s reer monstrat that players do not need to promise their LGBTQ inti sports.

“It will be emotnal, hugely emotnal, ” Kopay, 79, said of what he’s expectg Monday night as he ss at his home Los Angel watchg Nassib take the field for the Las Vegas Rairs as the first openly gay player NFL history on an active roster. Kopay has waed a long time to see an openly gay player actn, havg end his ne-year NFL reer 1972 and then g out as gay 1975. In all, there have been 16 gay or bi players NFL history, and 10 have played a regular season game.

At some pot Monday night, Nassib will bee the first to do wh the entire world knowg he’s gay. Jeff Rohrer, a former Dallas Cowboys lebacker who me out as gay 2018, also reflected on the impact of this moment. “Carl’s first game the NFL as an openly gay man is a landmark for the league, ” Rohrer said.

GAY RAIR MEM?

“Although this story is historil and important to all of the LBGTQ muny … I agree wh Carl that the bt days are still to e when a human beg beg gay no matter what they do...

What spir Rohrer is that those opposed to someone gay playg openly the NFL are part of a shrkg base that is growg ever smaller at a fast pace. “Me g out changed a lot of mds on gay acceptance.

“He’s done so much for gay muny. The NFL’s only openly gay player, Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib, took a personal day after ach Jon Gn rigned followg the surfacg of alleged racist and homophobic emails. Gn reportedly ed a number of anti-gay slurs his emails along wh other racist and misogynistic termology.

FAN AT RAIRS GAME TO SUPPORT OPENLY GAY DE CARL NASSIB: 'WHEN HE ME OUT, STCK A CHORD'

Gn is said to have wrten an email 2015 plag that a gay player named Michael Sam was drafted by the St. ” He also lled Gooll an anti-gay slur and a “cluels anti-football p***y” an email.

Nassib announced he was gay durg Pri Month on June 21 on his Instagram page.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay earlier this year, somethg he'd been "agonizg" over for 15 years. RAIDERS GM Mike Mayock: DL Carl Nassib, who is gay, requted a personal day.

RAIRS'S GN RIGNS AFTER ANTI-GAY, SEXIST MENTS EMAILS

Mayock didn't mentn ex-ach Gn's homophobic emails, but that seemed to be behd this. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs Coach Rigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic EmailsIn emails tailed by The New York Tim, Rairs Coach Jon Gn sually ed misogynistic and homophobic language to disparage Scuteri/Associated PrsPublished Oct.

28, 2021Jon Gn stepped down Monday as the ach of the Las Vegas Rairs football team hours after The New York Tim tailed emails which he had ma homophobic and misogynistic remarks, followg an earlier report of racist statements about a unn rignatn was a strikg parture om the football league for a ach who had won a Super Bowl, been a marquee analyst on ESPN and returned to the N. Officials, as part of a separate workplace misnduct vtigatn that did not directly volve him, found that Gn had sually and equently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to nigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momento nounced the emergence of women as refere, the draftg of a gay player and the tolerance of players prottg durg the playg of the natnal anthem, acrdg to emails reviewed by The ’s msag were sent to Bce Allen, the former print of the Washgton Football Team, and others, while he was workg for ESPN as a lor analyst durg “Monday Night Football. ” In the emails, Gn lled the league’s missner, Roger Gooll, a “faggot” and a “cluels anti football psy” and said that Gooll should not have prsured Jeff Fisher, then the ach of the Rams, to draft “queers, ” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team numero emails durg a seven-year perd endg early 2018, Gn cricized Gooll and the league for tryg to rce ncsns and said that Eric Reid, a player who had monstrated durg the playg of the natnal anthem, should be fired.