During Super Bowl Week in Minneapolis this year, Esera Tuaolo, a former NFL player who came out in 2002, partnered with the league to hold an Inclusion Party intended to further LGBT acceptance in football.
Last year, former Patriots and Chiefs offensive lineman Ryan O'Callaghan became the latest of just a handful of players to have come out after leaving the NFL. The NFL has never had an openly gay player appear in a regular season game, with the nearest example being Missouri's Michael Sam, who came out before the 2014 draft and was selected in the seventh round by the Rams, but who was released before the season began and later spent some time on the Cowboys' practice squad. 'Is it saying if he liked men, that would somehow be a bad thing? Is he expecting the guy to get out of his chair and start screaming, 'No, I'm a heterosexual!'?' To Jim Buzinski, a co-founder of Outsports, a website that examines the intersection of sports and LGBT issues, the question about Guice's sexuality 'is, at its root, homophobic.' In a phone interview with The Post, he said that such questions, and the one about Guice's mother being a prostitute, are 'designed to test how this player will react to what might be considered an adverse question.'
