First Openly Gay NFL Player Reflects on His Experience

Albany Times Union ^

[cpdiii]

stop with this identity garbage, especially as it pertains to professional sports...the playing field is the most color-blind, gender-blind, identity-blind places on Earth, you're either talented enough to contribute, or you're not on the team...bottom line...

If you can push a 280 pound offensive lineman out of the way and sack the quaterback the rest of the team does not give a damn who or what you are sleeping with. Performance is the only standard they care about.

[Jim Noble]

I do not believe Michael Sam was ever an NFL player.

[T-Bone Texan]

Know what’s funny?

My first thought on seeing the header was

“Oh jeez. No one cares. It’s a new paradigm (Trump, that is). I don’t have time for this sh[t”.

And no, I did not read the article.

[IrishBrigade]

the playing field is the most color-blind, gender-blind, identity-blind places on Earth

have you recently examined the racial makeup of your basic NFL team...?

[Calvin Locke]

I really don’t pay attention to the NFL, but I seem to remember rumors that the league twisted the Rams’ horns to give the openly gay and relatively mediocre player a shot.

[soycd]

If your are not following islam, there is hope for you.

[dangus]

Michael Sam is not an NFL player, only an NFL recruit. Never played a game.

[Dalberg-Acton]

The only good thing that came of this was the “outing” of DFW sports commentators and moralizing jerks Dale Hansen and Mike Doocy.

[FreedomStar3028]

“My butt really, really hurts.”

That was what he said of this experience.

[heterosupremacist]

#18 "This is the only thing that goes through his mind. Homo this homo that." Yes, exactly. That is his identity first and foremost. Instead of keeping his queer mouth shut and trying to excel, he had to screech his queerness from the rooftops, demanding a spot on a NFL roster because he was allegedly discriminated against! P.S. "...he became a motivational speaker." That is mind-numbing. Homo this, homo that. If such a creature exists clueless enough to consider Sam as a source of motivation, well, then they can go and be enlightened by his mentally ill obsession with all things queer; and all the ways to deny his queerness is ultimately a psychological disorder

[sit-rep]

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[bigdaddy45]

I’m not sure what your point is. Did you see Tom Brady throwing to all those white wide receivers in the Super Bowl?

[boycott]

Excuses ... excuses.

[heterosupremacist]

#25 I really don’t pay attention to the NFL, but I seem to remember rumors that the league twisted the Rams’ horns to give the openly gay and relatively mediocre player a shot. Yeah, the RAMS were very tempting, but he instead chose the PACKERS! HA!

[martinidon]

He could not even cut it in the Canadian league.

[Rastus]

This effin’ guy? He’d be a minor question in Trivial Pursuit if that was still a thing. Didn’t that “first gay NBA” guy turn out to be a “homo so they don’t cut me?”

[Vendome]

Your a last pick draft.

You ain’t all that...

[AU72]

News flash. He would not have been the first gay to play in the NFL!

[MUDDOG]

He’s gonna coast on this forever, like John Lewis on Selll...ma.

[Jeff Chandler]

he joined the Montreal Alo Sailors . . .