Ravens’ Brendon Ayanbadejo wants to use Super Bowl platform to stump for gay rights

From Yahoo! Sports [source]

Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo hadn't even slept after Baltimore's AFC championship game win over the Patriots when he started sending emails asking how he could help promote gay rights at the Super Bowl. According to the New York Times, at 3:40 a.m. on Monday, Ayanbadejo sent emails to Brian Ellner, a marriage-equality advocate, and Michael Skolnik, political director for Russell  Simmons, a hip-hop magnate who is a supporter of gay rights and marriage equality.

“Is there anything I can do for marriage equality or anti-bullying over  the next couple of weeks to harness this Super Bowl media?” Ayanbadejo wrote, according to the Times.

t's not often a person has the exposure provided by being a player on a Super Bowl team, and now that Ayanbadejo's mission has been made very public, expect him to get a lot of opportunities to discuss his cause.

Yes, yes, yes! It's entirely possible this guy might turn me into a Ravens fan.