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At this year's Super Bowl — when the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers take the field — many will be watching the sideline for Katie Sowers to construct history. Sowers, an repulsive assistant coach with the 49ers, will become the first female and openly gay person to be calling the shots during football's biggest game.

Sowers is no stranger to breaking barriers, however. She was just the second lady hired as a full-time coach for an NFL team and the first openly LGBTQ coach in the league's history, the Washington Post reports. She came out publicly in 2017 as a queer woman in the publication Outsports.

"No matter what you act in life, one of the most important things is to be real to who you are," she said at the time, according to the outlet. "There are so many people who recognize as LGBT in the NFL, as in any business, that do not feel comfortable being universal about their sexual orientation."

Sowers, who has spent four seasons in the NFL, joined the 49ers as part of the 2017 Bill Walsh Minority Fellowship — a program aimed to increase the amount of full-time NFL minority coaches in the league, according to her 49ers biography

NEW ORLEANS – San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver has made inflammatory comments regarding homosexuality in football just a few days before Super Bowl XLVII.

Shock jock Artie Lange revealed he had interviewed Culliver at media day Tuesday and aired a segment on his show that blackout, where the player insisted that any gay players would not be welcome on the team.

"I don't do the gay guys man," said Culliver, whose Niners play the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. "I don't do that. No, we don't got no gay people on the team, they gotta obtain up out of here if they do.

"Can't be with that sweet stuff. Nah…can't be…in the locker room guy. Nah."

When quizzed by Lange whether any homosexual athletes would need to maintain their sexuality a secret in football, Culliver responded: "Yeah, come out 10 years later after that."

You can hear to the interview here:

The 49ers released a statement Wednesday in response to Culliver's remarks:

"The San Francisco 49ers reject the comments that were made [Tuesday], and have addressed the matter with Chris. There is n

49ers' Katie Sowers is making history by becoming the first female and first openly gay coach at a Super Bowl game

San Francisco 49ers offensive assistant coach Katie Sowers will make history next month by becoming the first female and first openly homosexual coach to take part in a Super Bowl.

Sowers, 33, became the second woman to carry a full-time coaching position in the NFL when she was hired by the 49ers in 2017 and is the first LGBTQ coach in the league's history.

Sowers, who was a member of the 2013 US Women's National Football Team and played in the Women's Football Alliance (WFA) for eight years, quoted LeBron James in a celebratory Instagram post following the 49ers' NFC Championship win on Sunday night, which sends the team to Miami for the Super Bowl.

"Takin our talents to south beach," she captioned a video showing confetti falling over the team.

Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo told reporters in a post-game interview that it has been "tremendous" to work with Sowers.

"Katie was here before I was, but just what she does with the receivers, all the skill positions guys, how she interacts with them. It's special. She's feisty, man. Katie is awesome out there. She'll ge

San Francisco 49ers' Katie Sowers Becomes NFL's First Openly Same-sex attracted Coach

San Francisco 49ers assistant coach Katie Sowers has get the NFL's first openly gay coach.

The Kansas native — who is also just the second woman to be a full-time assistant coach in the NFL — recently opened up about the importance of public LGBTQ voice in the league.

“No matter what you do in experience, one of the most important things is to be true to who you are,” Sowers said in an interview with Outsports.

“There are so many people who name as LGBT in the NFL, as in any business, that do not feel comfortable entity public about their sexual orientation.”

Sowers, 31, played professional football in the Women’s Football Alliance and traces her cherish for the sport back to when she was just 8 years former — having described “tackling” as her favorite part of football.

Sowers said she experienced her first taste of LGBTQ discrimination in sports while in college, when was rejected from a volunteer coaching job because of her “lifestyle.”

“I was so ardent about coaching and to feel appreciate my opportunities were limited because of who I loved was hard to deal with,” Sowers told Outsports.