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OSUsushichic

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I saw this in Publisher's Weekly and am curious to know if this is the first (and only?) former NFL player to out himself. I don't remember hearing anything about this.

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-7965775-9035028?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
 
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BuckeyeFlorida said:
Anyone else wanna be in the "Who Cares" club? I'm not a homophobe, I just don't care that this gay man happened to play in the NFL.
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I agree. Surprise...a gay dude played professional football. On another note, the sky is blue. This is hardly shocking except to the morons of the world. Unless he names other players he was banging or outs other gay NFL players, I can't imagine too many will care about this book.
 
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This guy's actually been out for quite awhile. He was on Real Sports with Bryant Gumble a couple years back. Off the top of my head, has there been any other current or former MLB, NBA, NHL (any major sport period) to publicly do so? there was the former MLB utility player (Beane I think his name was).
 
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD width=629 colSpan=3>Thursday, October 24
Updated: October 30, 8:06 PM ET

Tuaolo says he contemplated suicide
<HR width="100%" noShade SIZE=1>ESPN.com news services

</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD width=501>Esera Tuaolo, who played nine years in the NFL as a defensive lineman, will reveal he is gay in an interview to be shown Tuesday on HBO's "Real Sports" and in the upcoming issue of ESPN The Magazine.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD width=65>[FONT=verdana, arial, geneva]Tuaolo[/FONT]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Tuaolo, who played for five NFL teams, said a major reason for his early retirement in 1999 was the difficulty and frustration that came with keeping his sexual orientation a secret.
"They didn't know who Esera Tuaolo is," he said in the interview with HBO. "What they saw was an actor."
Tuaolo, 34, said players routinely told gay jokes in the locker room.
"They made me go further and further into depression, further and further into shame," he said.
In a transcript and tape of the HBO show obtained by The New York Post, Tuaolo discusses the depth of his depression, saying it reached a point to where he thought about suicide.
"When I'm driving like over a 100 (mph), maybe I could just like turn that wheel, just turn that wheel so I could just end it all," Tuaolo said in the interview.
Tuaolo, a native of Hawaii, played at Oregon State before being drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1991 (35th pick overall). He also played for the Panthers, Vikings and Jaguars, and for the Falcons, the team he was with in Super Bowl XXXIII.
The "Real Sports" segment also features ESPN's Sterling Sharpe, a former teammate of Tuaolo's with the Packers.
When Sharpe was asked what would have happened if Tuaolo came out while he was still playing in the NFL, Sharpe said: "He would have been eaten alive and he would have been hated for it."
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>http://espn.go.com/nfl/news/2002/1024/1450380.html
 
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