David Kopay

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Dave Kopay was born 28 Jun 1942 in Chicago, Cook County, [[Illinois]].
 
Dave Kopay was born 28 Jun 1942 in Chicago, Cook County, [[Illinois]].
  
He came out as gay in 1975, three years after the end of his nine-year professional football career.
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"Kopay played for the Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins, retiring in 1972 after a productive nine-year pro career. His private affairs were known to few."  He came out as gay in 1975 in an interview with ''Washington Star'' reporter Lynn Rosellini, three years after the end of his nine-year professional football career.
  
 
In an interview in 2002 he stated that he had been working for 20 years for a linoleum company in Los Angeles that his uncle owned, as a buyer for movie studios.  At the bottom of that interview is an email address for him, but my message to that address in 2008 bounced as "user unknown".
 
In an interview in 2002 he stated that he had been working for 20 years for a linoleum company in Los Angeles that his uncle owned, as a buyer for movie studios.  At the bottom of that interview is an email address for him, but my message to that address in 2008 bounced as "user unknown".

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