Posted on 05/26/2015 6:06:42 PM PDT by Salman
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) Brian Burke believes the Montreal Alouettes signing of Michael Sam is a tipping point in professional sports.
The Calgary Flames president of hockey operations, who co-founded You Can Play in memory of his late son, says the arrival of the openly gay player in the CFL will be a watershed moment.
"I think it's huge," Burke told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. "To me, this is one of those 20, 30, 40 years from now, people will look back and say 'remember when Michael Sam signed with the Alouettes?'
"We know we have gay athletes in all sports. I think other gay athletes are going to see the reception that Michael Sam gets and how wonderful it's going to be for him."
The Alouettes signed the 25-year-old Sam to a contract and introduced him on Tuesday.
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Right?
Will it also be “historic” when they cut him because he can’t play?
Sounds like they only signed him because he likes male genitalia. No mention of his football skillset was evident.
The Alouettes? Shouldn’t he have signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders?
It was here in the states.
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My Canadian Friends; Please DO NOT live film him cutting another Celebratory Cake with his fiance!
I saw that once, don’t need a repeat.
20, 30,40 years from now football will be ‘just a distant memory’.
He didn’t wash out of the NFL. He didn’t even make the cut nor play a single down. This faggot is so full of himself he might be stupid enough to even try out for the Lingerie Football League.
“...says the arrival of the openly gay player in the CFL will be a watershed moment.”
I assume those long Global Warming winters up there killed his brain!
It’s the first time the CFL signed a guy who couldn’t cut it in the NFL?
I grew up a BC Lions fan in Vancouver and one thing we’re known for is we are more ruthless than Raider fans. Once he gets to BC Stadium, the homo will be jeered non stop. Heck Vancouver fans burn down their own city TWICE when they lost the Stanley Cup.
Mayhap because he doesn't have a football skillset. ;-)
Will the gay propaganda ever end?
I would bet most NFL teams are glad he’s gone away for now. They don’t want the perv in the locker room. He is a distraction.
We should let the guys in the locker decide that.
His “fiance” is a guy so it cannot be a “fiance.” This is not a marriage and a hundred to one it will end in “divorce.”
I am sooooo sick of hearing about this guy. Now we are going to be subjected to an endless ‘reporting of his struggles and triumphs in Montreal. Couldn’t he go play in Europe or someplace really really far away?
No comment.
First, he ain;t a “guy”. He’s ..I dunno, faggot? I’m a guy and you may be a guy, so don’t label this freak a guy. Don’t insult every guy’ in the world.
Yep. Will never play a down in an actual game.
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