There have been 11 known gay players NFL history - Outsports

Contents:

• 7 GAY NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS
• CARL NASSIB IS OUT, BUT HE’S NOT THE FIRST GAY PLAYER THE NFL, OR EVEN WASHGTON
• ALL POSNS NEW GAY NFL WILL BE REFERRED TO AS ‘TIGHT END’
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

7 GAY NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS

After postg 56 tch for 882 yards and 13 touchdowns as a hman All-Amerin, Bowers followed up wh a team-bt 63 receptns for 942 yards and seven touchdowns as a sophomore. No active NFL player has ever clared his homosexualy publicly. Many NFL players have nfsed beg gay football players after retirement.

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

In 2014, Michael Sam a llege football player publicly me out as a gay football player. If he achiev this feat, he will bee the first active gay football player the NFL. Here we take a look at all the other gay football players who played the NFL.

THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

In 1975 he beme the first profsnal NFL football player to e out as gay. He is a board member of the Gay and Lbian Athletics Foundatn and is also the Gay Gam Ambassador of the Feratn of Gay Gam.

Smh never ma public about his homosexualy but later after his ath, was nfirmed by his relativ that he was a gay.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS

In 1992, he clared himself a homosexual on The Phil Donahue Show. In 2002, Esera Tuaolo former NFL football player publilly clared to be a gay. He beme the third NFL player to e out as a gay, after David Kopay and Roy Simmons.

He is a board member of the Gay and Lbian Athletics Foundatn. He has also ttified at the State Legislature Senate Judiciary Commtee hearg opposn to an anti-gay-marriage bill. Wa Davis the former NFL fensive back me out of his closet 2012, clarg himself to be a gay.

CARL NASSIB IS OUT, BUT HE’S NOT THE FIRST GAY PLAYER THE NFL, OR EVEN WASHGTON

Davis is a board member of the New York Gay Football League and of the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network sport-advisory. Soon his parents cid to send Harris away om his hometown for further tn to hi is homosexual his retirement om Amerin football, Kwame Harris 2013 publilly revealed of beg a homosexual an terview wh CNN.

The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly.

ALL POSNS NEW GAY NFL WILL BE REFERRED TO AS ‘TIGHT END’

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.

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.

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. In addn, four other players who me out as gay were NFL trag mps, some playg preason gam.

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

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 Las Vegas Rairs are releasg Carl Nassib, the fensive end who ma history last year as the first openly gay active player NFL history. “The Rairs, the NFL, have monstrated that they support this man as a gay man, ” Zeigler said, addg that Nassib’s succsful rerd will help him quickly fd a new team.