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As of now, there are no openly gay hockey players in the NHL. However, in a recent poll of all NHL players, over 80% of them said they believe they have a gay teammate.
The first professional football game took place on November 12, 1892 between the Allegheny Athletic Association and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. This game is commonly recognized as the first professional game because one of the Allegheny players, William Heffelfinger, was openly paid $500 to particpate. Click on the 'Pro Football's First Game' link on this page to read more about the game and who the first professional players were that followed Heffelfinger.
The Quakers and the Mennonites were two religious groups that openly condemned slavery in the American colonies.
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If the majority of Germans had been openly opposed to Hitler, his Nazi party might not have received the largest vote by the German people in the 1933 elections.