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- EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
- THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
- THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
- SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’
- FORMER GREEN BAY PACKER AHMAN GREEN TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER AND LBIAN SISTER
- 10 YEARS AFTER ELR PACKER’S ANTI-LGBTQ TALK, HAVE MORMONS TURNED THE RNER ON GAY RIGHTS?
EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
Players on 22 NFL teams have already had an out gay teammate, cludg six players wh the Arizona Cardals. * packer gay *
"Twenty years of speakg and gog out there and tg people on homophobia sports and the LGBTQ muny, the big qutn has been, 'When will the first active NFL player e out? "That's when Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib told the world that he was gay, a revelatn that will make him the first openly gay active player the NFL when he sus up 2021. He revealed he was gay 2002 an terview wh HBO's Real Sports, makg him the third former NFL player to e out.
THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
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Dpe Outsports chroniclg lerally dozens of piec of evince to the ntrary, there’s a ntued belief amongst some that NFL players would overwhelmgly reject a gay player if he me out. So we set out to figure out how many current NFL players have already played on the same team wh an out gay teammate.
THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
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We found 39 current NFL players, who were on a roster for the 2020 season, who have already had an out gay teammate. In addn, dozens of other players have played agast an opponent they knew to be gay.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
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Those gay athlet are all still alive today.
The 39 current NFL players have played wh at least five gay or bisexual men who were out to their team while they were on the same team.
The Arizona Cardals have the most players we know have played wh an out gay teammate.
PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
At least six of the players on the Cardals’ 2020 roster — about 10% of the team, — has already had a gay teammate they knew of.
SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’
And they have llectively played llege wh all five out gay players. Wh that experience, solid veteran learship, a ach Kliff Kgsbury who has ld gay football player Stt Frantz, and a ont office that has monstrated an embrace of LGBTQ people, is easy to make the se that an out gay player wh the Cardals would be weled. Of urse many other NFL players have played wh a gay or bi teammate before they me out (e.
The are the current NFL players to have played wh an out gay or bi man on their team (wh that team and their current team listed):. If you thk I’ve missed a current NFL player who’s played wh an out gay or bi teammate, be sure to leave the rmatn the ments below. The announcement today by former Patrts and Chiefs offensive leman Ryan O'Callaghan that he is gay brgs to seven the number of NFL known gay players NFL history who have played a regular season game.
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FORMER GREEN BAY PACKER AHMAN GREEN TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER AND LBIAN SISTER
Kopay played wh two teammat who were gay: tight end Jerry Smh and nng back Ray McDonald. Gay players have long been the NFL. Legendary Packers and Redsks ach Vce Lombardi — who had an openly gay brother — knew that some of his players were gay.
In the Outsports article on O’Callaghan g out, longtime NFL executive Stt Pli says he has unseled gay NFL players before.
The NFL Network produced a documentary on Smh beg gay.
10 YEARS AFTER ELR PACKER’S ANTI-LGBTQ TALK, HAVE MORMONS TURNED THE RNER ON GAY RIGHTS?
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.