Ex-Dallas Cowboys Jeff Rohrer to wed same-sex partner

A former Dallas Cowboys football player will make history this weekend when he becomes the first ever NFL player to marry a man.

Jeff Rohrer, a former linebacker for the Texas American football team, publicly came out as gay on Wednesday.

«If I had told the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately», Rohrer told the New York Times.

«It was a different world back then. People didn’t want to hear that».

Rohrer, 59, will marry his partner of three years, Joshua Ross, 36, who grew up near the Texas stadium where Rohrer used to play throughout his professional sports career in the 1980s.