Nfl gay player rumors

Here's a list of players in college and pro football who have proved you can be gay or bi and still run the gauntlet. Running back Dave Kopay, who signed with the San Francisco 49ers in There have been 16 gay or bi players come out publicly in the NFL, which is in its th season. Carl Nassib was No. 16 and the first one to come out as gay while on an active roster.

After being. There has been only one player who has publicly come out as gay or bisexual while being an active player in the National Football League (NFL): Carl Nassib, who came out as gay on June 21, , while with the Las Vegas Raiders. [1]. In , Nassib – then playing for the Las Vegas Raiders – became the first active NFL player in league history to publicly identify as gay.

Nassib said he agonized over the decision for Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant, whose mother is gay, recently reiterated his disdain for queer people in a homophobic and transphobic social media rant.

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In today's society more people are more comfortable coming out of as LGBT than 20 or 30 years ago. It goes the same for athletes many athletes have come out in recent years. For example when Michael Sam came out before the NFL Draft he was criticized because some teams didn't want the media distraction signing him would provide. At least that's the reason they said. He was selected by the St. Louis Rams but he was cut before the regular season.

After a short stint on Dallas's practice squad, he went to the CFL, only playing in oner game. While sports have come a long way in accepting those of different backgrounds and sexualities, there's still a lot of work to be done. They're are athletes today who still remain in the closet and won't come out because of the scrutiny they could face. Athletes in team sports are further discouraged, because some teams view an athlete coming out as a media distraction.

Here are eight athletes rumored to go both ways, and seven who are rumored to be in the closet. Carl Lewis was a dominant Olympic athlete. He was a track and field star who won 10 medals at the Olympic Games between the years of and Nine out of the ten medals were gold.

Lewis also has won eight World Championship gold medals and he holds many track and field records. He also went over a decade without a single loss. The way Lewis dressed always caused questions to surface about his preferences, even though he was married. Some of his peers even thought he was a secret homosexual. Lewis lost some endorsement deals because certain companies didn't feel Lewis was 'macho' enough of a male athlete to sell their brand.

Te'o was a great college football player for Notre Dame. He led Notre Dame to an undefeated season in , but they would lose the Championship game to Alabama. Howeve Te'o faced more of a problem than just the teams he was facing. He told the press that his girlfriend Lennay Kekua died of cancer the same day as his grandmother.

He told reporters the news just before a game against Michigan State. However it came out that the story of his girlfriend dying of cancer was false. It came out that Kekua never even existed with the evidence pointing to one of his friends Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. People believe Te'o was catfished into the whole thing while others believed he may be gay and was merely using the Kekua story as a way of hiding his relationship with Tuiasosopo.

Brittney Griner has made quite a few headlines in regards to her dating life. She earned a lot of praise for coming out despite being a star athlete, and she was very open in sharing her relationship and eventual marriage to fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson. Griner got an endorsement deal with Nike after she came out, marking the first time the company had announced a partnership with an openly gay athlete.

However, their marriage didn't end well, as both were arrested on domestic violence charges and were divorced after less than two years of marriage. Recently, Griner has come out and said she was done dating women, and it's heavily rumored she and NBA star Anthony Davis have been dating.