Former NFL Player Doesn’t Want First Gay Professional Athlete To Be Like 2 Chainz

Ex-NFL player Wade Davis became one of the first athletes to admit that he was gay. However, there has yet to be an athlete who is actively playing that has came out of the closet. For Davis, he hopes that person won’t be a bad image, saying this bold statement about rapper 2 Chainz in an interview with Toure of the Daily Beast: T: When you get to that Jackie Robinson, that extraordinary player who’s gay but he’s so good you can’t front, do you think about the impact that that would have on America when that moment comes? W: I think about that moment a lot and that moment really scares me. I think we exist in a society that’s looking for a specific type of player who’s gay. Would we need a face of gay athletics who’s got gold fronts and dreds? You think that the media and Nike would do all this and that for them? Imagine if this person is someone who didn’t go to Stanford, who’s maybe not as articulate as we like. Who’s like 2 Chains. Is he going to be the face of this LGBT sports movement? No. There’s not a chance in Hell. And what if this athlete says I’m gay but I want to do my work silently. I’m gay, I’ve owned it, I’ve given everyone that. Now I just want to play ball. Is the media going to be ok with that? Are my fellow LGBT sports pundits going to be ok with that? T: So you’re worried about who it is. W: I’m worried about who it is and the idea that they have to do all these things the way that we want them to do it. That we’ve removed all the agency that they have. That’s what I’m worried about. What if he says I don’t want to be on the cover of Out? I don’t want to be sexualized. Everyone doesn’t exist in that sphere and if he doesn’t follow that pre-existing roadmap then he’s not going not be good enough to be that person. If I’d have come out while I was playing I would’ve said the most screwed up stuff in the world about gay youth. Because I didn’t know. I didn’t have the language to talk about it. I wasn’t reading books, I was reading playbooks. I promise if, I’d have been out I would’ve said to guys, ‘The fa**ot just dominated you.” Guaranteed. 100%. I know that word is horrific and gets kids bullied and killed but I guarantee if I was out I would’ve said that to people. It’s actually quite surprising to hear this, as 2 Chainz was a very smart person who got a scholarship to Alabama State, finishing with a 4.0 GPA. But then again, he rhymes “big booty” with “big booty” and his name used to be Tity Boi, so I see where Davis is realistically coming from.