Michael Irvin seems to say here that if fellow Dallas Cowboys could handle Atlanta Falcons Ring of Honor member Deion Sanders' eccentricity, they certainly could've accepted an openly gay teammate:
↵↵↵I believe, if a teammate had said he was gay, we would have integrated him and kept moving because of the closeness. We had a bunch of different characters on that team. Deion [Sanders] and Emmitt [Smith]. I believe that team would have handled it well.
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