In a wide-ranging interview with Dave Hollander for the Huffington Post, Columbia University grad, former NFL Pro Bowl defensive end, and current ESPN analyst Marcellus Wiley discussed how the current NFL culture would not be accepting of an openly gay player in the locker room.

"It would really be tough for a gay guy in the NFL, for the locker room to understand him as a homosexual," Wiley said. "I'm not saying it's impossible to pull off, but I'm saying right now the fear of coming out of the closet and more so coming out in the locker room would really be too tremendous to overcome.

"It's unfortunate because it shouldn't be that way. I understand that the locker room is pretty intimate. I do understand that there are 53 guys walking around nude at times and I do understand how guys may feel uncomfortable, but I don't think that it should impair someone's decision to live their life, have their freedoms and express themselves. I don't know whether that will be five, ten or twenty years from now but right now the NFL culture has no tolerance toward it."

Players shouldn't need to have aced the Wonderlic to realize that while they may not want to share a locker room with a homosexual, the odds are good that they already have, either in the NFL or in college, or that they currently are and simply don't know about it. If Wiley's estimated timeline for acceptance of a homosexual teammate is accurate, and regrettably, I believe that that it is, the NFL version of Gareth Thomas, a Welsh rugby star who came out of the closet in December, may still be diapers.