Posted on 08/30/2019 11:12:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ryan Russell has played in the NFL for three seasons, but when he suits up and takes the field for his next gameday he will be the first man to play in a regular season game who identifies as bisexual.
Russell, currently a free agent, was drafted by the Cowboys in 2015 after playing college football at Purdue. He played one year at the Cowboys and then two years at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but no one knew who the defensive end really was.
Russell told ESPN that he hid his sexual identity during the first three years of his career. He said he had a fear that it could be the end of his career if he was honest about being bisexual.
"I rationalized my fear because it was easy to convince myself that hiding who I was made the most sense. The competition is so stiff to stay in the league, that any small mark can lead a front office to choose another guy for your job," Russell told ESPN's Kevin Arnovitz.
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As I said in the thread yesterday, he hasn’t shown he is good enough for an NFL team, so he has to get his lawsuit set up.
Well, he’s a kneeler...................;^)
Please note that this guy’s last NFL season, 2017, he spent over half the season on the bench for the 5-11 Tampa Bay Bucs. And got cut. I don’t see any teams wanting to roll the dice that he’s somehow gotten better after a two year layoff. And if some team does take a risk on him and he can’t cut it they won’t be able to fire him without massive protests and a possible discrimination lawsuit.
More Fake news. Steelers had a backup quarterback (Stewart) that was gayer then Richard Simons.
Ain’t no such thing as a bisexual man
We don’t care who he has sex with
“He said he had a fear that it could be the end of his career if he was honest about being bisexual.”
The end of his career will be because how unremarkable he is on the field. But now he’ll claim discrimination.
Who’s watching anyway?
Not me.
I think the macho sports teams are gonna have massive scandals uncovered sometime in the next 10 to 15 years with all the youth travel league stuff these guys grow up in.
Probably far more of coaches causing far more harm than would be imagined at this point. And probably actually more homosexuality among the pro ranks than across the country on average. I think all the African-American boys growing up in single-parent homes are probably especially vulnerable.
Yeah, you can’t put that toothpaste back in the tube.
and????????
I’m confused. How can he be bisexual AND a defensive end?
He has MADE A CHOICE..letem live and die with it..Failing mother nature, and/or his makers laws, he’e ‘done for it’
BLECCCHHHHHHHH
Everyone knew about Sandusky, it’s why he was never offered a Head Coaching job anywhere else.
s there a gay gene, major new study says no..
Tight end-wide receiver?
And yes of course he’s a kneeler. Both knees.
glorifying perverts.
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