Some Packers thought Aaron Rodgers was gay bee he didn’t ‘brag about his penis size’ - Outsports

Contents:

• EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
• FORMER GREEN BAY PACKER AHMAN GREEN TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER AND LBIAN SISTER
• CLAY MATTHEWS: GAY PLAYER WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM GREEN BAY PACKERS LOCKER ROOM
• THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
• AARON RODGERS' PACKERS TEAMMAT ONCE REPORTEDLY THOUGHT HE WAS GAY BEE OF A BIZARRE REASON: "HE WASN’T ONE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS P*NIS SIZE"
• GAY BAY FUDGE PACKERS
• SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’

EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

"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.

FORMER GREEN BAY PACKER AHMAN GREEN TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY BROTHER AND LBIAN SISTER

He revealed he was gay 2002 an terview wh HBO's Real Sports, makg him the third former NFL player to e out.

Tuaolo has been part of the shiftg tis as an advote, givg speech, appearg ernment heargs, appearg on TV shows and wrg his tobgraphy 2006, "Alone the Trench: My Life As a Gay Man the NFL. He's gog to be bombard by so many thgs, by so many people, and now he's the 'gay player, ' they're gog to be npickg everythg he do, like they did wh Michael Sam, " Tuaolo said, referrg to the openly gay Universy of Missouri star who was drafted the seventh round and never played an NFL game. Also: A dozen NFL players tell Outsports they would support a gay teammate.

I went to the event on a missn: Talk to NFL players about gay athlet and homophobia.

CLAY MATTHEWS: GAY PLAYER WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM GREEN BAY PACKERS LOCKER ROOM

They didn’t know a gay guy would be roamg the field lookg to talk about gay issu. We ver mostly gay issu sports, and homophobia sports, " I told Green.

"Have you ever had a gay teammate? Maybe I was htg that he was gay. The gay muny is jt like everybody else, but they’re treated differently.

If a guy was gay, he wouldn’t e out while he was playg. I thought NFL players were eply homophobic, ready to drive a gay teammate om the locker room the first time he glanc at a dropped towel. Yet here he was talkg to me about gay sh.

THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE

He wants to talk to the gay guy some more. So I asked him if he has any gay iends or fay members.

AARON RODGERS' PACKERS TEAMMAT ONCE REPORTEDLY THOUGHT HE WAS GAY BEE OF A BIZARRE REASON: "HE WASN’T ONE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS P*NIS SIZE"

And I had a girliend high school, her mom’s iend was a gay guy. Green also told me his brother was gay. "That’s what society forc gay people to do, to hi.

As we talked, the terview remd me of the first time Michael Irv told me about his gay brother. The only qualm Green had wh his gay siblgs was the fact that they waed so long to tell him they were gay. Green said he had found acceptance of gay people long ago.

He’d met many gay people his youth, and that helped shape his perspective of other gay people.

GAY BAY FUDGE PACKERS

Sce then, Green has heard smattergs of Brown’s anti-gay preachg and his csa to prevent protectn for gay people Nebraska. I’d pegged this NFL superstar, who once rid on my fantasy football team, as a homophobe.

We’ll wre about what we heard om them, and which one played wh a gay teammate high school, on Wednday. Green Bay Packers star lebacker Clay Matthews said Tuday a gay teammate would have no problem the Packers locker room. That's why you n have a multu of players who are black, whe, Polynian, gay, whatever may be this se, and e together and play for a mon goal.

Some people still believe that the NFL is a “homophobic” monolh where ’s “dangero” to be gay. 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.

SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’

So we set out to figure out how many current NFL players have already played on the same team wh an out gay teammate. 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. 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. 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.