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He played in 111 games and recorded 200 tackles and 12 sacks. The Minnesota Vikings also rebranded their Viking logo in rainbow colors.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers posted they "are proud to support pride month" and implored fans to join them at events this month, including the St. Pete Pride Parade and the Grand Central Street Fair.

The Chargers similarly provided a gay pride page on their website that includes Chargers gay pride wallpaper, a "coming out handbook" and a gay calendar of events.

The Rams say they are "encouraging our fans to join us in celebrating the LBTQ+ community this month and all year long!" The Rams, who in 2014 selected Michael Sam as the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL, have never encouraged fans to celebrate the straight community on social media.

The San Francisco 49ers, meanwhile, "stand united in honoring love, identity and the power of authenticity" this month under the pride flag.

Nearly A Dozen Teams Have Declined

A total of 10 teams declined to post about gay pride month on their social media by the end of Sunday.

The teams that declined to join the gay pride party by the end of gay pride month's first day: The Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Indianapolis Colts, Las Vegas Raiders, New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans, defending AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs, and defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.

The Falcons, Packers, and Broncos declined to join the gay pride observance last year but have already done so this year.

In a coming out story in 2017, O'Callaghan revealed his plan after football was always to kill himself. Played in the Super Bowl with the 2007 Patriots.

Ryan Russell (2015-17, spent 2018 in Bills camp): Defensive lineman with the Buccaneers and Cowboys. He learned he was HIV positive in 1997 and died at 57 in 2014.

but it is in gay years."

Brad Thorson (2011)

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A lineman at Kansas and Wisconsin in college, Thorson attended training camp with the Arizona Cardinals in 2011. But lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queers get a month-long celebration and NFL teams observe it every year now.

So, on Sunday's June 1 kickoff to gay pride month in some circles, the vast majority of NFL teams decided to celebrate gay pride and gay love and all that comes with it on social media.

That's what Jeff Rohrer did in 2018, when he used the engagement to also come out. He identifies as bisexual, which makes him part of the LGBTQ+ community He briefly played defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys. He bounced around on a few NFL practice squads before becoming a TV star. He knows this because many of them have reached out to him.

It was far from the most important work he would do, though. Simmons became the second ex-NFL player to come out publicly when he admitted it on "The Phil Donahue Show" in 1992. But he wanted to find himself first.

"I was just afraid I'd be 30 and still not know who I am," he said. After coming out in 2012, Davis has done great activism work for organizations like the "You Can Play" project.

Also on the Cowboys practice squad.

Colton Underwood (2014-20): Tight end had preseason or practice squad stints with the Chargers, Eagles and Raiders.

I am sure that list is a lot bigger, but the players have not all come out publicly. Here's all 14 of them, in order of when they played.

Dave Kopay (1964-72)

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Kopay was a running back who played for a number of teams like the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers, mostly serving as a back-up.

He's considered a gay pioneer after he came out to a newspaper in 1975, which made him the first pro team sport athlete to come out — not just in the NFL.

His 1977 autobiography, "The David Kopay Story," revealed many of his struggles and became a best-seller. They also got considerable push back. Aloha" was a big, 277-pound defensive tackle for the Packers and Vikings, among other teams.