I'm sure that's right. I don't agree with the concept of the league orchestrating some

mass coming out party though. They are not the right people to do that or even to make the call that safety in numbers is the way to do it. That should be up to the players involved and apparently thus far they've decided that the best thing to do is to just keep quiet about it.

By the way, over the last 20 years I must have coached in the thousands of American football players, certainly several hundred within the area I would have been coaching, and NOT ONE has come out. I don't only mean not coming out within the context of the sport but I am not aware of a single guy who has come out in his private life either (we all kind of know each other as it is a very small world in Europe). I am sure there must have been one or two who I haven't notice, being something I'm not actively looking for, but it is still a powerful indicator of how difficult it is for sportsmen to be open about their sexuality in team sports.

Posted By: Steve in Holland, Jan 24, 16:02:29