message on Instagram on Thursday, writing: “I think it’s important to understand that the path you were meant to take is more often than not ...
the path that was least expected ... but that is the beauty in your story and YOU will always control the narrative.” Sowers generated a big following after becoming the second woman to work as a full-time assistant coach in the NFL, following Kathryn Smith, who was a special teams assistant in Buffalo in 2016.
Sowers was also the first openly gay coach in the NFL.She was part of San Francisco’s staff that went to the Super Bowl last season and was featured in a prominent Microsoft commercial thanking her for knocking down doors for other women.Sowers, who played in the Women’s Football Alliance.