We just got the chance to chat with Roy Simmons, one of the three former NFL players who are currently out of the closet. The other two, David Kopay and Esera Tuaolo, have made more of a name for themselves, but with Simmon's book "Out of Bounds" coming out this month, we think you'll begin hearing his name, too.Simmons, who played for the Giants and the Redskins from 1979-1984, wrote a crazy book. There's sex with a teammate, bath houses, prostitution, peep shows, booze - it's like a Sean Cody catalog, but in this one, the characters couldn't just go back to their cater waiter jobs at the end of the action.
When we talked to him, we asked him about what he thought the chances are that one day pro football players will be comfortable coming out.
"Minimal," he told us. "That’s how it is. Inless you’re a star, a super, super star. But if you’re just trying to make it, a general player with talent, they’re not coming forward with that, no. It’s not pressing in their life that they would need to come forward and free themselves. Free themselves for the owner to say the next morning, excuse me you’re fired."
So you're saying we've got a chance!
After, if a ball player was gay, he would definitely be a super, super star.
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Anytime I hear or see anything about that Esera guy, I have to giggle a little. I and some other were at a bar in Atlanta a couple of years ago standing near him. People would speak to him as they walked by, and he'd be all "hey girl, how you dooin'?" in not the most masculine tone ... lord, I can't believe that people ever thought he was straight.
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