Michael Sam hopes to become the first openly gay player in the NFL, which has emphasized its policies on non-discrimination and workplace conduct in recent months.
However, according to senior Vice President of player engagement Troy Vincent, who was speaking at the league’s office in an annual conference with sports editors, openly gay players in NFL locker rooms is nothing new.
Vincent said he played with six players who were openly gay within the locker room, but chose not to publicly announce their sexual orientation at the time. Vincent also spoke about those teammates with a handful of reporters at the NFL’s annual meetings in March.
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