NFL Rookies and Veterans Weigh in on Gay Players

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Several current and retired NFL players say that they and their teammates are ready to welcome a gay player on their team.

Rookies Robert Griffin III, Trent Richardson, and Coby Fleener all agreed that it was time for the NFL to be more supportive of gay players.

Richarson, a two-time national champion for the University of Alabama, in a state that overwhelmingly passed a gay marriage ban in 2006, said he doesn't care whether a teammate if be gay, and added that he has gay friends.

“I never pay attention to it,” Richardson said to Outsports.com last week at the NFLPA Rookie Premiere. “They do what they do. I don’t have a problem with them. As long as they’re playing good football and contributing to the team, I don’t have nothing to do with that. It is what it is. I don’t have any problem with any sexuality or whatever they’ve got going on. That’s them. That’s what they want to do. That’s their life.”

http://www.advocate.com/sports/2012/05/24/nfl-rookies-veterans-weigh-gay-players

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[William769]

1. I stopped watching NFL years ago.

I may have to start watching again.

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2. I hope they start by welcoming the gay players that are already on their teams...

should they choose to come out.