NFL Asks Gay Questions At Combine

By Cyd Zeigler | March 3, 2013, 12:33 am PST

Stories have swirled around this year's NFL combine that various teams wanted to ask Manti Te'o if he's gay. Other potential draftees said teams did in fact ask them. A firestorm erupted around the controversy.

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