Happy Birthday, Homos!
For those of you who are watching this in your living room, here’s the official NFL Happy Birthday video.
Here’s the one that aired this week in New York.
Happy Birthday!
I’m excited to be home.
I have no words to describe how happy I am to be back.
I’ve had so many people ask me to come out, and I just can’t stop.
I just want to be out in the world.
I want to go to the Super Bowl.
I know that some people are going to think that’s crazy.
But I think that everybody who’s been around me is aware that I’m very introverted.
And I want them to know that I’ve always been very private and very introvert.
But if you’re ever going to be comfortable with who you are, you’re going to have to learn to be yourself.
I don’t want to look like the person I used to be.
I’m not going to go out with guys anymore.
And so, I’m really going to embrace who I am.
I love being out and being myself, and being a gay man.
I think it’s going to help me get back to playing.
You know, I think the only reason I’m still playing at this age is because I love playing football.
So I don,t have to be anything else.
I am who I’ve been my whole life, and that’s who I’m going to continue to be, and then I’m just going to try to live up to my character.
You never know.
Maybe someday I’ll go to New York City and do a Broadway show or something like that, but right now, I just feel like I’m the same person that I was when I was a kid, and the only difference is that I can’t be who I was at this young age.
And now I have to keep that person in mind.
I feel like that was what was most important to me, was to keep being myself.
And, of course, that’s exactly what I did.
I really wanted to be that guy, and to be the person that everybody knows.
That’s what made me the person and the character that I am today.
I had so much fun playing in college and being around a lot of guys.
But as soon as I came out, that was the last thing that really got me.
It’s something that I really miss about being gay in the NFL.
The only thing that I miss is the fans.
I was in the locker room and the fans were cheering me on, and cheering me through my tears, and my happiness and my laughter.
But it’s also a lot more complicated than that.
You can’t just walk in the building and say, “I’m gay.”
You can only come out when you really, truly are.
It doesn’t happen overnight, it takes years of work and dedication and being able to just say it.
But that’s what I’m doing right now.
I never really looked at myself the same way when I came into the league.
I always kind of had this image that I thought was me.
And then when I started to come into my own, I realized that I have this other side to me that is just incredible.
So, it’s been a lot to take in, and a lot for me to figure out.
I definitely can’t wait to get back on the field.
I can never wait to be around my family and my friends and have them feel like they can say, ‘You know, we’re here, and we’re a part of the team.’
That’s all I can think about right now is getting my family over here.
So it’s just going in a different direction.
It feels like it’s all going in the right direction.
I mean, I still feel like the NFL is kind of my home.
It just feels like this new, different place for me.
The fans here are great, and they’re very supportive.
I haven’t even had to think about it much because they always let me know that they appreciate it.
They’re very understanding.
They really care about me and they really appreciate what I do.
And they know I love football, and there’s nothing better than that in this world than being a part-time player.
I wouldn’t change anything about the world to be anywhere else.
You just have to take it day by day.
There’s nothing I can do to make it different.
I would love to play a little bit more and do more, but I can only do that in my own time.
And that’s how I am right now: just going out there and playing.
So now it’s time for me just to come back to where I belong, and try to keep playing.
Hopefully, I’ll be back soon.
But, yeah, this is what it’s like to be an NFL player