The league’s ial rponse to Carl Nassib’s announcement has been promisg. But will the NFL really do what tak to support s gay players?
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- COL KAEPERNICK: TEAMMAT DON'T RE IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY
- COL KAEPERNICK MIGHT BE GAY, DATG A 'GAY CIRCU DJ' (BUT PROBABLY NOT)
COL KAEPERNICK: TEAMMAT DON'T RE IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY
And the most unrstated way possible he says: “I jt want to take a quick moment to say, I’m gay.
He’s also gay. And I asked Granrson whether the NFL has changed enough to make room for an openly gay player—and if so—how. He me out, but he hasn’t been the first openly gay player to play on Sunday yet.
He hasn’t been the first openly gay player to make a bad play that may have st him the game. You’re makg this pot that this is jt the begng and he’s makg this statement as part of a league that historilly has not been acceptg to gay players.
COL KAEPERNICK MIGHT BE GAY, DATG A 'GAY CIRCU DJ' (BUT PROBABLY NOT)
One reporter noted after watchg Nassib’s vio that he’d asked an NFL ach 2013—not that long ago—whether a gay player would ever be weled the league, and the ach said no, bee nobody wants to shower wh a gay person. And he didn’t e the term gay person. The first NFL player to reveal he was gay was Dave Kopay.
The qutn is: Why are the homophob stoppg gay people om talkg about their sexualy? They tried to pretend like wasn’t there, even though Pl Tagliabue, a former missner of the NFL, had an openly gay son.
They tried to put pretend that is wasn’t there, even though the current missner, Roger Gooll, has an openly gay brother. He was this All-Amerin om the Universy of Missouri who announced that he was gay 2014 right before the NFL draft. So while I appreciate the history of him g out before the NFL draft and I appreciate the history of him actually beg drafted as an openly gay player, I’m also a sports journalist, and I know how hard is to play on Sundays.