Raiders star Carl Nassib first active NFL player to announce he is gay

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Fanatics, the NFL’s official e-commerce partner, said Nassib’s has been the top-selling NFL jersey on Monday and Tuesday across the company’s network of online stores.Nassib made the big announcement via video message on Instagram Monday, saying, “I just want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

Joy Behar, 78, is getting attention after making what she called an “inappropriate” joke when discussing Carl Nassib coming out as gay, on the June 22nd episode of The View. The co-host made most of her fellow co-hosts, including Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Sunny Hostin, cringe during the awkward moment while other co-host Meghan McCain just looked unimpressed.

Joy Behar walked back a joke she made about gay NFL player Carl Nassib during Tuesday’s edition of “The View”, later admitting it was “inappropriate.”

The National Football League is chipping in to support the cause.

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in a video posted to Instagram on Monday. “I’m at my house here in West Chester, Pennsylvania,” said Nassib, a defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders.

Star Trek’sGeorge Takei has congratulated American football star Carl Nassib for coming out as gay. On Monday (21 June), the Las Vegas Raiders player, shared a video to Instagram explaining that he was a “pretty private person”, but hoped him coming out would mean other people would not have to make similar videos in the future.

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Footballer Carl Nassib has made history by coming out as gay (Photos: Instagram / Erik Drost)

decision to come out as gay, the first time an active NFL player has chosen to do so, was welcomed across the league from coaches and teams to some of the biggest names in the sport. It is hardly a secret that gay players have always existed in the NFL, but a fear of a backlash from fans, teammates and their employers stopped them from doing so.

NFL world has come together after Las Vegas Raiders’ Carl Nassib became the first active player to publicly come out as gay. The 28-year-old made the announcement in a video on his Instagram account on Monday.

American footballer, Carl Nassib has just made NFL history as he is the first-ever active player in America’s National Football League to come out as gay.

Instagram account, which has almost 61,000 followers. “I just want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” Nassib said in the the video shot at his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman for the Las Vegas Raiders, has become the first active NFL player in league history to come out as gay. The football player, 28, shared his truth in a new Instagram video on June 21, explaining that he has “been meaning to do this for a while now” and “finally [feels] comfortable getting it off my chest.”

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib made history today, becoming the first active NFL player to come out as gay. He made the announcement in an Instagram post.

coming out today, commending the player for “sharing his truth.” Nasisb came out as gay via a video posted to his Instagram page on Monday. In the post, Nassib added that he planned to donate $100,000 to The Trevor Project, which works to provide mental health support and decrease suicide risk in LGBTQ+ youths.

NBC Sports. Former University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam came out as gay before the 2014 NFL draft, was drafted by the then-St.