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- Stoned Again - 10-24-2002
I always thought Boomer was going to be the first to come out of the Closet. The fact that it's a big lineman makes this kind of funny.
Tuaolo says he contemplated suicide
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ESPN.com news services
Esera Tuaolo, who played nine years in the NFL as a defensive lineman, will reveal he is gay in an interview to be shown Tuesday on HBO's "Real Sports" and in the upcoming issue of ESPN The Magazine. Tuaolo, who played for five NFL teams, said a major reason for his early retirement in 1999 was the difficulty and frustration that came with keeping his sexual orientation a secret.
"They didn't know who Esera Tuaolo is," he said in the interview with HBO. "What they saw was an actor."
Tuaolo, 34, said players routinely told gay jokes in the locker room.
"They made me go further and further into depression, further and further into shame," he said.
In a transcript and tape of the HBO show obtained by The New York Post, Tuaolo discusses the depth of his depression, saying it reached a point to where he thought about suicide.
"When I'm driving like over a 100 (mph), maybe I could just like turn that wheel, just turn that wheel so I could just end it all," Tuaolo said in the interview.
Tuaolo, a native of Hawaii, played at Oregon State before being drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1991 (35th pick overall). He also played for the Panthers, Vikings and Jaguars, and for the Falcons, the team he was with in Super Bowl XXXIII.
The "Real Sports" segment also features ESPN's Sterling Sharpe, a former teammate of Tuaolo's with the Packers.
When Sharpe was asked what would have happened if Tuaolo came out while he was still playing in the NFL, Sharpe said: "He would have been eaten alive and he would have been hated for it."
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- The Sleeper - 10-24-2002
Damn, i wish it was someone like Bill Romanowski. I'm pretty knowledgable about football and I don't remember this guy at all.
- diceisgod - 10-24-2002
Faggots are funny because they want to fuck other men in the ass.
- Galt - 10-25-2002
...and it's also funny how they cling to the false notion that they make up 10% of the population