What Next - Best of 2021 | Will the NFL Finally Support Gay Players?
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🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in June 2021.
The Las Vegas Raiders’ defensive end, Carl Nassib, came out in an Instagram post back in June, making him the first openly gay active player in NFL histroy. The league immediately posted in celebration of Nassib’s announcement. But given the NFL’s sorry history of standing by players on the vanguard, will the league really put its money where its mouth is this time?
Guest: LZ Granderson, LA Times opinion columnist and host of ABC News’ “Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson.”
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| 0:36.9 | is bringing you some of our best episodes from 2021. |
| 0:40.6 | We are taking you back to the stories and the people that |
| 0:43.7 | helped define our year. |
| 0:46.3 | And today, we're taking you back to the summer. |
| 0:48.5 | That's when a defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders, |
| 0:51.3 | Carl Nasib, came out as gay. |
| 0:54.1 | He became the first openly gay active NFL player ever. |
| 0:58.5 | When I talked with LA Times columnist, Elzie Granderson, |
| 1:02.2 | he told me he had been waiting for this day for years. |
| 1:06.2 | And while he felt joy for finally reaching this milestone, |
| 1:09.5 | he was also acutely aware of how hard it was going to be |
| 1:12.7 | for the NFL to put some real muscle into supporting Carl |
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