Wicked Touching Story : Former college football captain was openly gay

Brian Sims led his Bloomsburg University team to Division II Championship game

Defensive tackle Brian Sims This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it was the captain of the Bloomsburg University football team. He had grown up an Army brat with two Army colonels for parents.

Sims said he didn't come out to his team: "My team came out to me."

Someone Sims had dated shared a class with the quarterback of the football team, Eric Miller. Sims believes that the jilted lover wanted Sims kicked off the football team, so he told Miller that he had been dating Sims. Soon after, Sims was out on the town with Miller and longtime friend and teammate Fran Gregor. After a couple drinks, Miller asked Sims if he was gay.

It was the question Sims had been fearing for years. He knew many of his teammates probably suspected that he was gay, and he was right.

"He's the captain of the football team, he's a good-looking guy," Gregor, his good friend and teammate through high school and college, said. "In the dorms, there were nights when girls would literally stumble into our room and climb into bed with him. And five minutes later, they would leave." (Continue Reading-Source/OutSports)

WGB: What a great story and worth the read. It gives me hope that even in the inner-jock circles there is some tolerance and acceptance and being gay doesn't change who you are as a person. His teammates were so cool that I have to share a line form the article that I loved:

Sims remembered one night when he was on a date. They were sitting in the back of the room at a candlelit table enjoying a quiet evening. Several of his teammates came in and were sharing some drinks at the bar. Out of Sims' earshot, one of the other patrons apparently made a comment about the two fags on date.

"Three or four guys on my team literally picked him up and threw him out the door," Sims said.