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Contents:

• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• RAMS CUT MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER DRAFTED
• CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY
• CARL NASSIB BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER TO PLAY NFL GAME
• BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS
• MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, RETIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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

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.

RAMS CUT MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER DRAFTED

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. Louis Rams have cut Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team. Michael Sam first openly gay player drafted to NFL.

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

Back 2013, Michael Sam was a llege football sensatn who cid to e out as the only known gay profsnal football player at the time. It was Augt of 2013 durg a team meetg, that Sam cid to announce to his llege teammat that he was gay.

The word of Sam's g out as a gay player soon ronated throughout sports general as he was the only active, openly gay player at the time. In the recent wake of Jon Gn's homophobic (among other thgs) rhetorics which were spewed a 2011 email that forced him to rign, was disvered that Gn ed the words "queer" and "faggot" to scribe Sam when the Rams drafted him back 2014 (for the rerd, Gn also scribed NFLPA executive director DeMrice Smh, who is Ain Amerin, as havg "lips the size of Michell [sic] tir. The Los Angel Rams have a kicker named Gay (Matt, married to a woman, two children), but that’s not one of the gay angl to be found Super Bowl LVI between the Rams and Ccnati Bengals.

There is only one openly gay player the NFL, Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Rairs, but that don’t mean the two Super Bowl teams don’t have LGBTQ nnectns. In 2014, the biggt story sports occurred when fensive leman Michael Sam me out as gay prr to the NFL Draft.

CARL NASSIB BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER TO PLAY NFL GAME

Gay players Super Bowl history. There have been 16 out gay and bi players NFL history, wh only Nassib out while still active.

Gay Rams cheerlears. Rams cheerlears Quton Peron and Napoleon Jni were trailblazers when they me out publicly as gay followg the Rams’ Super Bowl appearance the 2018 season. Gay Bengals of days past.

In 2017, he wrote that durg that time there were three Bengals players who apparently were gay. Durg my time wh the Bengals, three players me across my radar at different tim as the subject of signifint sir scuttlebutt about beg gay. Last year, Buffalo Bills Hall of Famer Bce Smh said, “We had a gay player our locker room.

BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

Carl Nassib, a fensive leman wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay. I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS

He said a statement acpanyg the vio that he had agonized over the cisn to announce he was gay for 15 years.

MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, RETIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS

Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay NBA player when he sued up for the Brooklyn Nets 2014, was cheerg Nassib on social media. “As an acplished athlete who is now the first out gay active player the NFL, Carl Nassib’s story will not only have a profound impact on the future of LGBTQ visibily and acceptance sports, but sends a strong msage to so many LGBTQ people, pecially youth, that they too n one day grow up to be and succeed as a profsnal athlete like him, ” the statement said. Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Moon add to the chos of people proud of him, and the former NFL and CFL quarterback add that he played wh some guys who were gay but didn’t feel fortable g out.

In 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be selected the NFL draft when the St. Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first openly gay player to play an NFL game on Monday night, and may be a sign of progrs that when he spoke wh reporters afterward, that wasn’t the first thg he was asked about.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

”Michael Sam me out as openly gay before the Rams drafted him 2014. Sam was the subject of tense media attentn as a gay NFL player, but Nassib is gettg attentn mostly for jt beg a football player. 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.