Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk
“Obviously on the issue of marriage we couldn’t be further apart, but he’s my teammate and I respect him,” Birk said about Ayanbadejo, though, he disagreed with Culliver. “I have gay people in my life — gay people in my life that I love. If you’re asking me if I would accept a gay teammate: yeah, absolutely. It would be really not that big of an issue to me personally.”