WATCH: Football announcer's untentnally graphic, gay mentary has the Inter stch - Queerty

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• WATCH: FOOTBALL ANNOUNCER’S UNTENTNALLY GRAPHIC, GAY MENTARY HAS THE INTER STCH
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS WORLD CUP SHOULDN’T BE GOG TO QATAR, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
• ESPN COMMENTATOR'S 'GAY' REMARK JT NOT THAT BAD
• NFL GO TO NEW EXTREME, LNCH 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' CAMPAIGN
• CARL NASSIB'S ANNOUNCEMENT LEADS TO NFL MERCIAL: 'FOOTBALL IS GAY'

WATCH: FOOTBALL ANNOUNCER’S UNTENTNALLY GRAPHIC, GAY MENTARY HAS THE INTER STCH

Growg up while the Ptsburgh Steelers were wng their first four Super Bowls, I realized the dichotomy of my obssn wh the team and the burgeong realy that I was gay.

"Also gettg the way of my love for football was the fact that there were no openly gay players. Of urse there were gay players, but never out. Some said Sam uldn't move to lebacker bee he was too though felt Sam never ma bee the NFL wasn't ready for a gay player.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

And that Sam would bee the lchp of the Steelers lebackg rps for years to, I don't have to create a false scenar for a gay NFL player any longer. Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player history to announce that he is gay (while signed to a team).

I'm sure there are lns of gay NFL die-hards who had to read the news twice bee our md uldn't wrap self around the credible tth, and the seemgly unbelievable will live his tth, and dog so, he lights up the ey and hop of all the young gay athlet and fans around the untry. Meanwhile, Las Vegas, there's a 13-year-old super-avid gay Rairs fan who is cryg tears of joy.

In a sport where you’re allowed to bump and n a receiver, ’s not unmon for football announcers to elic some gay church giggl every now and then. The announcer was analyzg a play durg a matchup between the Arizona Cardals and the Ccnati Bengals when he accintally took thgs a cidly gay (and steamy) directn. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs. Matea offensive leman Jake Strer, who is gay, is one of five current or former LGBTQ athlet profiled.

“When I returned to football my sophomore year after g out was bee I knew that if I qu football was jt the begng of thgs I would qu or hold myself back om bee I was gay, ” Strer told Outsports. “To fast forward to my last football game my senr year and have end wh ‘NFL 360’ there to clu me a story celebratg the first openly gay football player NFL history is still really unbelievable to me.

GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS WORLD CUP SHOULDN’T BE GOG TO QATAR, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL

EST, we see scen of Strer’s last game as a Matea Mtang, terspersed wh him speakg about beg gay football and what Nassib’s g out meant to him. Their experienc are universal, ways good and bad, for many LGBTQ people — Pick talkg about the pa om the ial rejectn by her mom; O’Callaghan discsg suicidal thoughts before beg rcued by a therapist; Rapoport’s touchg rellectn of g out to NFL Commissner Roger Gooll by approachg him at a Super Bowl event holdg her girliend’s hand and Gooll’s se upon seeg ; Saffold discsg growg up Black and gay on the South Si of Chigo “where there are rampant levels of homophobia” and Strer on how he ed to worry “about how bad my life might be after I me out. “I thk 11- or 12-year-old kids playg football prr to Carl Nassib g out didn’t thk there uld be a gay football player, ” Rapoport said.

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

No one wh human cency wants trans or gay people ad or whout rights … God bls them all … but ’s 1000% valid as a parent or adult to be ncerned about the observable movement to fluence children. World's only openly gay active pro footballer is ncerned for LGBTQ muny ahead of Qatar 2022.

ESPN COMMENTATOR'S 'GAY' REMARK JT NOT THAT BAD

It has been almost a year sce Josh Cavallo announced he is gay, but even now he still stggl to prehend the far-reachg impact his announcement has had – pecially as he has begun to speak out on major issu, notably the Qatar World Cup. A year on, Cavallo remas the only openly gay top-flight male footballer the world – he plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A League – but his cisn spired Jake Daniels, a forward for English send divisn club Blackpool, to e out May of this year.

NFL GO TO NEW EXTREME, LNCH 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' CAMPAIGN

“It was jt the uncertaty, seeg that there was no active gay footballer that’s e out before and there was no plan wh , ” he rells. Fashanu beme the first openly gay profsnal footballer after g out 1990 while playg the English top flight, but the backlash he suffered eventually led him to take his own life eight years later. “It is so great to be gay.

CARL NASSIB'S ANNOUNCEMENT LEADS TO NFL MERCIAL: 'FOOTBALL IS GAY'

Earlier this month, former Spa ternatnals Iker Casillas and Carl Puyol were wily cricized after the former posted a tweet claimg he was gay.

In a now leted post on his official Twter acunt, Casillas wrote: “I hope I’ll be rpected: I’m gay.