Is jerry rice gay
Odell Beckham Jr. tells GQ he’s chasing Jerry Rice’s record, is happy again and felt disrespected by Giants
Odell Beckham Jr. says he’s happy again after being traded to the Browns.
He’s motivated, too.
He told GQ Magazine he wants to play 10 years “or until I can pass Jerry. That’s the goal: 23,000 yards,” Beckham said in a wide-ranging interview posted online Monday morning.
Hall of Famer Jerry Rice is the NFL’s all-time receiving leader with 22,895 yards from 1985-2004. Beckham, 26, has 5,476 in five years with the Giants.
“Best wishes @obj,” Rice tweeted Monday.
Beckham’s outlook is much more positive than it was a couple of years ago. He said things got so difficult for him with the Giants he would talk to his mom about retiring from football and “literally every day” thought about changing sports.
“Just off it. To love something so much to a place where it is my everything, and to watch it be tainted, or all kinds of things be in the middle of it,” he said of the NFL. “Like, it hurt me to my soul. It be favor loving someone and putting them on such a level to where existence is about them and you love that person through anything. Through the good, the bad
This week’s Portrait has a chronology of places in which he’s lived that sounds like a Beach Boys song. With more than 20 years in the hotel and hospitality industry, Jerry Rice has resided in Miami, Seattle, Arlington and Wilmington and Huntersville, N.C., where he was the “Youngest Dual General Manager in Marriott Brand History.”
Now he’s here in the City of Brotherly Love opening a brand-new spot, the Cambria Hotel & Suites on Broad Street. He is also newly elected to the board of the Independence Business Alliance, the city’s gay chamber of commerce. We talked down in the lovely Cambria lobby bar with jazz influences everywhere.
PGN: I acquire the subtle hint that there’s a music theme here.
JR: Since we’re on the Avenue of the Arts with the Trek of Fame right outside, we have music represented throughout our decor. Our tables are made from drums, our chandelier is made of trumpets and the staircase has tune notes incorporated. If you look closely at the pattern in the wallpaper, it’s designed to observe like sound waves. It’s subtle, but pretty cool.
PGN: What were you enjoy as a kid?
JR: Very much like I am now — gregarious, outgoing, inquisitive. I was prosperous eno
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John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
From late April 2013 to early May 2014, gay and womxn loving womxn athletes welcomed breakthrough after breakthrough in the historically closeted world of sports.
Journeyman basketball center Jason Collins came out as gay and later signed a contract with the Brooklyn Nets, making him the first openly gay player to receive into a regular-season game in the NBA, NFL, NHL or MLB.
A not many weeks after Collins’ announcement, Robbie Rogers debuted for the Los Angeles Galaxy, breaking a similar barrier in Major League Soccer. That October, U.S. women’s soccer superstar Abby Wambach married her longtime girlfriend.
Finally, in football, SEC defensive player of the year Michael Sam became the first out player to be drafted when he was selected by the St. Louis Rams in May 2014.
But if some were hoping the events of 2013 and 2014 would spark a wave of professional athletes coming out, minuscule headway has been made. Since Sam was drafted, no active players own done so from any of the four major sports leagues. The closest have been players like D
He wonders where all the years went.
It has been 23 NFL seasons since Kopay, a running back for five teams in nine seasons, stunned the sports nature by coming out as a homosexual. He was the first major professional team-sport athlete to perform so, but few hold followed. Guard Roy Simmons, who played 58 games for the Giants and Redskins from 1979-83, came out on the Phil Donahue Show in 1992, but that was it.
"I'm the token queer,'' Kopay muses. "I'm it.''
The belief that somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of the general population is homosexual suggests that 75 to 150 of the NFL's 1,500 players are closeted.
| Troy Aikman has denied stubborn rumors he is gay. |
"Think about this,'' says Atlanta wide receiver Terance Mathis. "You may hold three, four gay guys on your team and not even know it.''
Says Kopay, "Of course, that is what I want to believe, and yet I don't se
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