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.
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IF YOU'RE NOT GAY FOR TOM BRADY AFTER SEEG HIS MEN'S HEALTH COVER THEN YOU'RE NOT A REAL MAN
O’Callaghan is one of ne former NFL players who have e out as gay after their reers, acrdg to the publitn Outsports. Kopay has said he believed Lombardi knew that he was gay and fully supported him.
O’Callaghan said he spects that every NFL team clus at least one gay player who is fearful of g out.
“I know some of them, ” he 2018, Outsports listed 46 NFL players who said they would wele a gay teammate, cludg current or former Patrts David Andrews, Cameron Flemg, Joe Thuney, and Ted O’Callaghan me out as gay, he said, Kraft lled to support him. Kraft has been one of the NFL’s leadg supporters of LGBTQ rights, and the Patrts 2015 were the league’s only team to sign an amic brief filed wh the US Supreme Court to support same-sex marriage, which the urt legalized by a 5-4 for Gooll, O’Callaghan said he me away om a private nversatn tstg the missner’s scery about welg openly gay players to the league but ncerned about how to achieve . “Sooner or later, there will be an openly gay player the NFL, ’’ he said.