Carl Nassib, the NFL's first openly gay player, mak game-changg play 2021 but

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• CARL NASSIB, THE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, MAK GAME-CHANGG PLAY 2021 BUT
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• GAY AND BI FORMER NFL PLAYERS EXCED TO SEE CARL NASSIB TAKE THE FIELD FOR RAIRS
• CARL NASSIB MAK RAIRS ROSTER, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL HISTORY
• TERRELL SUGGS, BALTIMORE RAVENS OUTSI LEBACKER, SAYS TEAM WOULD WELE A GAY PLAYER
• BALTIMORE RAVENS' BRENDON AYANBAJO ON MARRIAGE EQUALY, MATT BIRK, PRO-GAY PLAYERS
• LAS VEGAS RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB BE ONLY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO SAY HE’S GAY

CARL NASSIB, THE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, MAK GAME-CHANGG PLAY 2021 BUT

Carl Nassib, a very direct but rmal way, announced to the world a few months ago that he is gay. "I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay, " Nassib said an Instagram vio.

Now: There are those that would say that Nassib g out as gay is "no big al" 2021. Adults intify as lbian, gay or bisexual. Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib ma history durg the team's opener agast the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night, beg the first openly gay NFL player to su up a regular season game.

Nassib, who has played the NFL sce 2016, me out as gay earlier this year.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W

He's the first active, openly gay player to be on an NFL roster, but other players have paved the way.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted by the NFL 2014, but was cut by the St. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N.

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

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. 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.

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

“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.

CARL NASSIB MAK RAIRS ROSTER, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL HISTORY

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.

TERRELL SUGGS, BALTIMORE RAVENS OUTSI LEBACKER, SAYS TEAM WOULD WELE A GAY PLAYER

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.

BALTIMORE RAVENS' BRENDON AYANBAJO ON MARRIAGE EQUALY, MATT BIRK, PRO-GAY PLAYERS

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.

LAS VEGAS RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB BE ONLY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO SAY HE’S GAY

“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.