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Dallas Cowboys hero Dez Bryant slams NFL as gay event post resurfaces: 'This is far from right'
Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant has attacked the NFL after their 2021 identity festival post resurfaced over social media.
The 30-second video, shared by the NFL in late June 2021, says: 'Football is gay. Football is lesbian. Football is beautiful. Football is queer. Fotball is transgender. Football is for everyone.'
The four-year-old post also encourages followers to donate to the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization aimed at helping LGBTQ youth.
Now, at the start of identity festival month this year, the post has recirculated around social media and was noticed by Bryant - who had no hesitancy in underlining how unaffected he was.
'Football is gay Football is queer Football is transgender.. these are wild statements to make..excuse my silliness,' he wrote on X.
'I’m going to proudly tell my boys football is none of these things. I have nothing against Gays but this is far from right.'
Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant has attacked the NFL's 2021 pride post
Bryant pictured alongside Jay-Z at the rapper's foundation dinner in Brooklyn in 2023
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Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys and arguably the most famous of the league’s 32 owners, told Wade Davis, a former defensive back who came out in 2012, that he and the Cowboys would welcome an openly gay player.
“When someone like him speaks out, the world changes,” Davis told USA TODAY Sports.
Davis spoke to NFL owners, coaches and general managers about sexual orientation in sports on Wednesday in Orlando, Fla. Davis came out nine years after his last stint on an NFL roster ended and has already received positive feedback from meetings in New York with NFL officials, including commissioner Roger Goodell, over the past several months.
But there was a moment after his second presentation, this one to team owners on Tuesday morning, that confirmed to Davis just how much impact he had made in the quest to get rid of homophobia in the NFL.
But it wasn’t just Jones. It was coaches like John Fox of the Denver Broncos, who called Davis’ presentation the finest he had ever seen at these annual meetings, and Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, who said it is up to NFL owners to spearhead this culture change.
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Ex-Cowboys support gay teammate Jeff Rohrer before his wedding: Content 'he can be who he is'
Ed “Too Tall” Jones said he exchanged text messages earlier this week with Thomas “Hollywood’’ Henderson, another retired Dallas Cowboys star, as they absorbed the news.
“Did you contain any idea?’’ wondered Henderson, the former linebacker.
“No,’’ replied Jones, the former defensive termination who said he promptly called former Cowboys offensive lineman Crawford Ker.
“Crawford and I talked a long time about it, and Crawford’s feeling was the same as mine,’’ Jones said. “I don’t like to use the synonyms shocked. There aren’t very many things that shock me anymore. But surprised. And Crawford was, too.’’
What Jones, Ker and other Cowboys from the 1982 to 1987 teams have been discussing: One of their former teammates on Sunday is fix to become the first known NFL player to join a man. A linebacker whom Jones and other Cowboys remember was well-liked with women – Jeff Rohrer.
“Women loved him because he was a gentleman, he was intelligent and a fine football player,’’ Jones said. “… If you had said, ‘Ed, get me a list of five people in the history of the game (you think are gay),’ he wouldn’t hold been n
The Dallas Cowboys are probably the last team any NFL fan would hope for to have anything perform with queer culture. Owner Jerry Jones has lay his foot in his mouth numerous times over the course of his 30+ years of ownership, and the state of Texas isn't exactly acknowledged for LGBTQ+ support.
But what if I told you America's Team has a long history of queerness, from the players on the field to quotes from Jerry Jones himself? The Cowboys may not have hosted a Lgbtq+ fest night at the stadium yet — something that's only recently been done amongst NFL teams — but every June I can't help but consider how the most valuable NFL franchise's history includes numerous stories about same-sex attracted athletes, allies and more.
Let's start on the gridiron.
Michael Sam, Jeff Rohrer and Ryan Russell
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Michael Sam broke barriers as the first openly same-sex attracted player to be drafted in the NFL. And after his stint with the St. Louis Rams, he was signed by the Cowboys to the practice squad.
His name age in Dallas lasted just a month and a half in 2014, bu