Starting tonight at 10p in a two-part special on USA’s Necessary Roughness, one of the football players on The Hawks comes out to Dani (Callie Thorne). That is something Rex (Travis Smith) hasn’t done with anyone else but his boyfriend. And if his partner wasn’t giving him an ultimatum to either tell the world that he is gay or he is going to leave him, he would’ve stayed in the closet. He explains that since there is no player that out in the NFL, he fears for his job if he does. As the gossip spreads that a player is gay, it becomes obvious that he was right. So will that force him to chose his secret over the man he loves? Dani works with him to reveal who he is when he is ready to, but it looks like the clock in ticking faster than either of them would like.
Necessary Roughness handles this difficult topic really well and I hope that all sports players watch these two episodes. Even if you don’t watch sports, you will be drawn in by how good this two-parter is.
