Best of 2021 - #7: A Sportswriter's Coming Out Story And Carl Nassib
The Lead
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3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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To close out 2021, we're replaying our 10 best episodes of the year. At #7 we have 'What A Sportswriter's Coming Out Story Tells Us About Carl Nassib.' The Athletic's Steve Buckley joined us to talk about his own coming out story, and how it might help us understand what lies ahead for Carl Nassib, who became the NFL's first openly gay active player earlier this year.
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| 0:47.0 | Okay, so we are now on story number seven in our two week countdown of our ten best episodes of the year. |
| 0:54.0 | This is a story that first aired back in June, shortly after some history was made in the NFL. |
| 0:59.0 | At a time when I guess you could say the Las Vegas Raiders were making history in a good way. |
| 1:04.0 | But anyway, here's the episode. Enjoy. |
| 1:13.0 | On Monday, Raiders' defensive end, Carl Nassib, made an historic announcement on Instagram. |
| 1:20.0 | It's off people on Carl Nassib. I'm at my house here in Westchester, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:25.0 | I just want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. I've been meaning to do this for a while now. |
| 1:30.0 | But I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. |
| 1:32.0 | Today, the Athletics Steve Buckley joins us to talk about why Nassib's act was so momentous. |
| 1:38.0 | And what his own coming out story might tell us about how Nassib's act will be received. |
| 1:43.0 | Not one player in ten years has set anything, intimated anything to indicate that I was somebody they didn't want in the clubhouse, a locker room, whatever. |
| 1:53.0 | Nobody goes to the third rail and takes my sexual orientation to account. |
| 1:59.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Wednesday, June 23rd, and this is The Lead. |
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