Gay football fans still love this GOAT, even though mors swirled about his polics and he was always -- always -- the Super Bowl limelight.
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- IN NFL’S 100 YEARS, NO OPENLY GAY PLAYER HAS APPEARED A REGULAR-SEASON GAME
- IF YOU'RE NOT GAY FOR TOM BRADY AFTER SEEG HIS MEN'S HEALTH COVER THEN YOU'RE NOT A REAL MAN
IN NFL’S 100 YEARS, NO OPENLY GAY PLAYER HAS APPEARED A REGULAR-SEASON GAME
The wner will receive the Lombardi Trophy, named for legendary ach Vce Lombardi, whose brother was gay, and who is remembered by some for quietly supportg players he believed were gay. The trophy will be prented by NFL missner Roger Gooll, a supporter of LGBTQ rights who also has a brother who is gay. “I don’t thk ’s the NFL self that’s keepg guys om g out, ’’ said O’Callaghan, who creded psychotherapy wh helpg him nquer his suicidal thoughts and bee openly gay after his playg reer.
IF YOU'RE NOT GAY FOR TOM BRADY AFTER SEEG HIS MEN'S HEALTH COVER THEN YOU'RE NOT A REAL MAN
”Related: Comg out saved former Patrt Ryan O’Callaghan’s lifeWhen Michael Sam, an All-Amerin fensive end at the Universy of Missouri, me out as gay 2014, Gooll said, “Good for him.
Phillip/AP/Associated PrsIn addn, O’Callaghan appeared Monday at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, the se of the Super Bowl, wh other former NFL players who have e out as gay. The former players met wh youth groups and promoted the league’s mment to LGBTQ rights, as they did before last year’s Super Bowl barriers rema every major men’s North Amerin profsnal sport, while at the hight levels of women’s sports, many players are openly only openly gay players any men’s leagu have been Major League Soccer’s Robbie Rogers and the NBA’s Jason Colls, who both me out 2013. Rogers won a champnship wh the Los Angel Galaxy 2014 and retired Colls was wily praised when he me out, there was a cross-current of dissent, stirred by crics such as ESPN mentator Chris Brosard, whose relig beliefs hold that homosexualy is a s.
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