If the 49ers end up draftg openly gay NFL prospect Michael Sam, the team will look past his sexualy hop that he n help the red and gold return to the Super Bowl, acrdg to ments om quarterback Col Kaepernick.
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- 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
- KAEPERNICK SAYS TEAMMAT WON'T CARE IF PLAYER IS GAY
- WOULD KAEPERNICK HAVE AN NFL JOB IF HE WAS GAY STEAD OF PROTTG NATNAL ANTHEM?
COL KAEPERNICK MIGHT BE GAY, DATG A 'GAY CIRCU DJ' (BUT PROBABLY NOT)
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? * kaepernick 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.
COL KAEPERNICK: TEAMMAT DON'T RE IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY
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. 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.
KAEPERNICK SAYS TEAMMAT WON'T CARE IF PLAYER IS GAY
And he didn’t e the term gay person. The first NFL player to reveal he was gay was Dave Kopay.
WOULD KAEPERNICK HAVE AN NFL JOB IF HE WAS GAY STEAD OF PROTTG NATNAL ANTHEM?
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.