Earlier this year, former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart published an article through The Players’ Tribune in which he went into detail about the time in his life in the aftermath of the rumors that circulated in the late 1990s claiming that he was homosexual, and that he had been arrested for having a lewd act performed on him by a man in public.
He talked about what it was like to be a black quarterback in Pittsburgh at that time, about how so much of the fan base just wanted him to be ‘Slash’, and not the quarterback, and how that all came to a head when the rumors started, and basically, how it had consumed so much of his life for a period of years.