The NFL still hasn’t field an openly gay player durg a regular-season game.
Contents:
- FORMER BROWNS PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, MAKG NFL HISTORY
- FORMER BROWNS’ DE CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE IS GAY. WHY THIS IS NEWS......
- OLL BECKHAM JR. NOT BOTHERED BY PEOPLE SPECULATG HE IS GAY
- MICHAEL SAM SAGA MIGHT KEEP OTHER GAY NFL HOPEFULS OM G OUT, FORMER EXEC SAYS
- RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB, A FORMER BROWN, FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER NFL HISTORY TO E OUT AS GAY
FORMER BROWNS PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, MAKG NFL HISTORY
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From his home Wt Chter, Pennsylvania, fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to announce he is gay.
FORMER BROWNS’ DE CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE IS GAY. WHY THIS IS NEWS......
The first openly gay player to be drafted to the NFL was Michael Sam, back 2014, although he retired om the league one year later and did not play a game. Yterday, Nassib, a member of the Las Vegas Rairs’ fense, announced on his Instagram acunt that he was gay. He is not the first sports figure to be known as beg gay.
In the history of the NFL, there hasn’t been a sgle announced gay player that has appeared a regular season game. The first NFL player to be known as beg gay was nng back Dave Kopay who played om 1964-1972 wh one of his seasons wh the Green Bay Packers. Lombardi had a bld eye to both race and orientatn, and had a brother who was gay.
Lombardi was known for havg zero tolerance towards racial slurs as well as homophobic disparagement. Kopay formerly announced beg gay his 1977 bgraphy The David Kopay Story.
OLL BECKHAM JR. NOT BOTHERED BY PEOPLE SPECULATG HE IS GAY
Tight end Jerry Smh, who played for the Washgton Redsks om 1965-1977, was later learned of beg gay after he retired.
His double life as a star athlete pl a closeted gay man is portrayed the NFL Network documentary A Football Life – Jerry Smh. In recent memory, Michael Sam is famo for his announcement of beg gay. After pletg his llege football reer, Sam publicly announced that he was gay prr to the upg NFL draft.
Louis Rams and th beme the first publicly gay player to be drafted to the NFL.
MICHAEL SAM SAGA MIGHT KEEP OTHER GAY NFL HOPEFULS OM G OUT, FORMER EXEC SAYS
Sam then played for the Montreal Alouett the CFL and beme the first openly gay player to play a regular-season game that league. The NFL appears to be fairly ready for a gay man to play to the regular season and beyond.
As a gay 25 year old black man wh tism, I have to say that Cleveland was basilly the Fay Guy versn of me. Says he was not offend by people speculatg that he is gay, a mor that got turbocharged 2015 when var Carola Panthers ed gay slurs agast him a game when he was wh the New York Giants. They’d ll you “exced” a hot-tub photo wh your teammat or simply jt say you’re gay.
RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB, A FORMER BROWN, FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER NFL HISTORY TO E OUT AS GAY
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GQ: I feel like posts like that only ntribute to homophobia the black muny. The ia that someone mt be gay — or that beg gay is any way shameful — bee they’re dancg or have blond hair seems so small-md. Beckham never f what his sexual orientatn is, though I assume he is sayg he is not gay, pecially sce he says earlier the terview: “You never hear about the woman I’m datg or anythg like that.