The video was released in response to Las Vegas Raiders' defensive lineman Carl Nassib coming out last week, in an emotional video posted to Instagram. He is the son of former NFL player Herschel Walker, who is running for the United States Senate in. When he came out on Instagram last June, Nassib also announced that he was donating $100,000 to The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention organization. NFL has declared ''football is gay'' in a new promo video shared on Twitter. Walker is by definition gay, but rejects that label. It's plastered across the Twitter feed of Seattle Seahawks quarterback. In less than a year as an LGBTQ star, Nassib has helped raise money for LGBTQ causes. Despite inclusion policies touted by the NFL and NFLPA, how could a gay person. All these assumptions that we’ve had may not have been true.’”
“The significance of all of that is that people are starting to see: ‘Huh. “It was one thing for him to come out, but then for him to be out and succeed in that first game and then for the team to go to the playoffs? That’s the real power of what happened,” Zeigler said. Zeigler pointed to a game in September, Nassib’s first since he came out, in which he forced an overtime fumble that led his former team, the Las Vegas Raiders, to a thrilling 33-27 victory over the Baltimore Ravens.