The 1993 Houston Oilers had at least two gay players, former teammates say

Yahoo Sports ^ | 12/27/13 | Frank Schwab

[Oliviaforever]

The topic of whether a gay player would be accepted in a NFL locker room is probably overblown. Players like teammates who can help them win. The rest is trivial.

This is shown by the 1993 Houston Oilers. The Houston Chronicle ran a tremendous oral history on that wild season and team (it's excellent, check it out, as was the NFL Network's "A Football Life" episode on the '93 Oilers), and in it there's a revelation that the Oilers had at least two gay players.

[Oliviaforever]

If true, this may begin to explain the disaster the Oilers became in 1993 and the few years that followed until Bud Adams and the Oilers left Houston.

[1rudeboy]

“May” explain the disaster? LOL

[Alberta's Child]

Lemme guess ... One of them was a tight end and the other was a wide receiver. :-P

[Hebrews 11:6]

Can't help myself: didn't that team include Billy "White Shoes" Johnson?

[cripplecreek]

Yet no one felt a need to tell us then. Why do we need to know now?

[Alberta's Child]

He was retired by then. I think he retired in the late 1980s.

[SevenofNine]

That make you wonder LOL!

[Oliviaforever]

White Shoes was there in the 1970’s.

[gorush]

The “Oilers”, no less.

[JPG]

[Howie66]

Plus one crack-snorting wife beater.....

[guyfromjrz]

I think that was with the Fal-cant’s, excuse me Falcon’s.

[SoFloFreeper]

Put me in the category of “Who gives a damn?”

[SamAdams76]

Who cares about the 1993 Oilers. What I want to know is the 1946 Red Sox. They totally folded that year in the World Series against the Cardinals. Can somebody comb through that lineup, identify the responsible homosexuals involved in blowing that series, and get back to us?

Thank you and have a nice day.

[kcvl]

1993 Houston Oilers Roster

Player Pos G GS Birthdate College
Melvin Aldridge DB 1 0 07/22/1970 Murray State
Jeff Alm DT 2 0 03/31/1968 Notre Dame
Micheal Barrow LB 16 0 04/19/1970 Miami
Blaine Bishop DB 16 2 07/24/1970 Ball State
Joe Bowden LB 16 6 02/25/1970 Oklahoma
Gary Brown RB 16 8 07/01/1969 Penn State
Reggie Brown WR 4 0 05/05/1970 Alabama State
Tony Brown DB 16 0 05/15/1970 Fresno State
Cody Carlson QB 8 2 11/05/1963 Baylor
Ray Childress DT 16 16 10/20/1962 Texas A&M
Pat Coleman WR 13 1 04/08/1967 Mississippi
Doug Dawson OG 16 16 12/27/1961 Texas
Al Del Greco K 16 0 03/02/1962 Auburn
Cris Dishman DB 16 16 08/13/1965 Purdue
Kevin Donnalley OG 16 6 06/10/1968 North Carolina
Willie Drewrey WR 16 0 04/28/1963 West Virginia
Curtis Duncan WR 12 12 01/26/1965 Northwestern
William Fuller DE 16 16 03/08/1962 North Carolina
Ernest Givins WR 16 16 09/03/1964 Louisville
Travis Hannah WR 12 0 01/31/1970 Southern California
Leonard Harris WR 4 2 11/27/1960 Texas Tech
Terry Hoage DB 3 0 04/11/1962 Georgia
Brad Hopkins OT 16 11 09/05/1970 Illinois
Steve Jackson DB 16 12 04/08/1969 Purdue
Haywood Jeffires WR 16 16 12/12/1964 North Carolina State
Sean Jones DE 16 16 12/19/1962 Northeastern
Tony Jones WR 2 0 12/30/1965 Texas
Scott Kozak LB 16 0 11/28/1965 Oregon
Lamar Lathon LB 13 1 12/23/1967 Houston
Darryll Lewis DB 4 4 12/16/1968 Arizona
Wilber Marshall LB 10 10 04/18/1962 Florida
Emanuel Martin DB 1 0 07/31/1969 Alabama State
Le’Shai Maston RB 10 0 10/07/1970 Baylor
Bruce Matthews OG 16 16 08/08/1961 Southern California
Damon Mays WR 1 0 05/20/1968 Missouri
Keith McCants DE 13 0 04/19/1968 Alabama
Bubba McDowell DB 14 14 11/04/1966 Miami
John Henry Mills RB 16 0 10/31/1969 Wake Forest
Glenn Montgomery DT 16 11 03/31/1967 Houston
Greg Montgomery P 15 0 10/29/1964 Michigan State
Warren Moon QB 15 14 11/18/1956 Washington
Mike Munchak OG 13 12 03/05/1960 Penn State
Erik Norgard C 16 4 11/04/1965 Colorado
Bo Orlando DB 16 3 04/03/1966 West Virginia
Bucky Richardson QB 2 0 02/07/1969 Texas A&M
Tim Roberts DE 6 0 04/14/1969 Southern Mississippi
Marcus Robertson DB 13 13 10/02/1969 Iowa State
Eddie Robinson LB 16 15 04/13/1970 Alabama State
Webster Slaughter WR 14 14 10/19/1964 San Diego State
Al Smith LB 16 16 11/26/1964 Utah State
Kent Sullivan P 1 0 05/15/1964 California Lutheran
Mike Teeter DL 14 0 10/04/1967 Michigan
Stan Thomas OT 14 0 10/28/1968 Texas
Spencer Tillman RB 15 0 04/21/1964 Oklahoma
Craig Veasey DT 1 0 12/25/1966 Houston
Gary Wellman WR 11 3 08/09/1967 Southern California
Lorenzo White RB 8 8 04/12/1966 Michigan State
David Williams OT 15 15 06/21/1966 Florida
Lee Williams DE 14 5 10/15/1962 Bethune-Cookman

http://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfl/houston-oilers/roster/1993

[Paulie]

“Yet no one felt a need to tell us then. Why do we need to know now?”

Good question. I think the answer is to begin to prepare the fans for the inevitable homosexualizing of professional football.

Amazingly, they already got grown men and their fans to wear pink and embrace the ‘womans touch’ in general on football, such as going way overboard on ‘safety’ on the field for example and other things meant to chip away at the manliness of the players and the game in general.

[Oliviaforever]

There is actually a connection here as ESPN recently ran a program about the 1993 Houston Oilers and labeled that team “the most dysfunctional team in NFL history.”

[struggle]

Wow. Who cares.

[rktman]

Ouch! Couldn’t help yourself could you? LOL!

[max americana]

No wonder they got their asses kicked by the Chiefs with Montana.