Posted on 05/12/2014 10:39:59 AM PDT by MadIsh32
In the less than 48 hours since Michael Sam was drafted to the St. Louis Rams Saturday night, sales of his jersey have already soared to No. 2 out of all of the NFL rookies drafted, OutSports reported. “This is unprecedented for a Day 3 pick, let alone a seventh round pick, to crack the top five rookies sold following Draft weekend,” NFL spokesperson Joanna Hunter told the publication. In other words, the jersey sales are significant because Sam’s became available 48 hours later than those of the other four players in the top five best-sellers.
As of Monday morning, sales of Sam’s jersey ranked second behind Johnny Manziel of the Cleveland Browns — who was drafted in the first round — and ahead of three other players drafted far ahead of him: Jadeveon Clowney of the Houston Texans, Teddy Bridgewater of the Minnesota Vikings, and Blake Bortles of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Just hours after Sam’s selection, it was reported that the NFL was scrambling to fulfill a “ridiculous” quantity of request for Sam’s jersey.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
I bet the NFL bought all those jerseys, or some other special interest group.
I doubt they were bought by many fans.
BS. Bulk orders via the Gay Mafia. This entire thing was rigged.
I didn’t see your post. But we think alike. This entire thing is staged. Now they are in damage control after the kiss, knowing they crossed the line of decency and propaganda.
New Uniforms for the Village People . . . .
In other news, sales of all other Rams shirts are down 95%, and many a Holt, Warner and Faulk shirt has been put away for the time being by Rams fans who won’t say why because it would get them banned from Ram chat boards.
That sounds more like it. They had *orders* to place orders ;)
/Rant Off
I heard Bob Ley on ESPN yesterday reference the “Big pink gay dollar”... Well. I guess that was accurate.
Well, faggots do have a lot of money.
Wearing a Sam jersey in public will be like sending a message to fellow deviants that “this anus is available.”
You'll know it's me when I Ram.
In the shower, on the bench, a man is what I call my wench.
Oh c'mon. I think the average rank-n-file NFL watcher is tickled pink about Sam's history-making addition to the sports world. Why, I bet fathers all over this country took their sons out for a special shopping day just to snag one of these jerseys. Think of the teachable moments!
I will never accept this. All those in this country who are OK with this can rot in hell.
I’ll go ahead and call BS on this one.
In almost every case, the top draft picks have the most sales, and 4 days are just too early.
and NO true fan would by a jersey of someone picked in the last round. And notice: no NFL confirmation on that story.
All you haters need to watch ESPN’s beautiful special interest story about Sam and his boyfriend. They have been trying to have children for more than a year without luck. They are exploring in-vitro options, but have not given up on “traditional” anal sex means of becoming parents. Let’s all hope they find out the mysterious cause of the infertility problem. Sam himself was quoted as saying, “if we keep trying I’m sure a little baby will come out of his bottom.”
LOL! A couple of coprophiliacs do provide some amusement. Good one.
Well... this is New Amerika, where gay is “in.”
Sheesh. How many were bought by people named Sam, or to give as gifts to people named Sam? Purchasers don’t have to be “supporting the cause,” they might just be having a little fun.
Of course, the Left is so humorless that “fun” is an alien term.
Nobody here is accepting it. It is just here.
hundreds? Don’t be ridiculous. Football is a man’s sport.
so left wing women who nobody wants to marry and homosexuals buy shirts.
No straight man will allow his son to wear a rams shirt let alone a homosexual’s shirt. (see plunging retention numbers of the boyscouts)
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