Posted on 08/27/2014 1:40:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After it found itself at the epicenter of a storm of criticism over a report on the shower habits of Michael Sam, the first openly gay player on an NFL roster, and his teammates, ESPN responded Wednesday morning with a further statement on the report.
“ESPN regrets the manner in which we presented our report. Clearly yesterday we collectively failed to meet the standards we have set in reporting on LGBT-related topics in sports.”…
In its initial response to the firestorm, ESPN reponded Tuesday: “In response to recent questions about Sam fitting in with the team, multiple Rams brought up the shower topic and we relayed that information as part of our reporting.” Clearly, it felt it was necessary to walk that back Wednesday.
Watch the report. From the term “shower habits,” you would think one of the anchors had asked, with a smirk, “So, has Sam dropped the soap yet?” But the exchange is low key and matter of fact. The anchor wants to know, go figure, how the NFL’s first openly gay player is fitting in. Remember him? The guy whose coming out last year was international news and inspired maybe eight thousand stories asking, “How well will Sam fit in?” Here’s ESPN following up, and here’s their correspondent with an update: He seems to be fitting in fine, although one Rams player thinks he might be delaying his own showers after practice so as not to make some teammates uncomfortable. However you want to slice that, it’s news. If Sam really is waiting to shower, it shows that he senses there might still be some awkwardness in the locker room and wants to introduce himself to the team gradually. If he isn’t, it shows there’s already some misunderstanding of his behavior
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I never want to hear about Michael Sam again. I’m so freaking sick of this.
Give him the golden shower.
Who wants to be in a shower with some dude that has wood?
When I was going off to Ft Knox at the tender age of 19 I was warned...more than once...”don’t drop the soap”.Well,I never had the slightest problem with that issue and I never heard of anyone else having that problem.Michael Sams’s teammates might not be as lucky as we were many years ago.
“whose coming out last year was international news and inspired maybe eight thousand stories”
The fact that someone actually wrote that is a symptom of a deep illness.
Maybe they did but I bet they all had the backs to the shower head.
Horseapples! Would it be a story if 40 football players were showering with one of the teams female cheerleaders? You bet you butt it would. Same story but with a gay guy. He needs to be sanctioned and fined or suspended for showering where heterosexual players shower.
It is the heterosexual players right to privacy as much as it is a gay player’s right.
An ‘up close and personal’, human interest story because they know Barry logs a lot of hours watching ESPN and they figured it would be something he’d enjoy.
Barry likes to "log" a lot of other things, too.
Therein lies the problem. There should be no LGBT related topics on ESPN. The topic should be sports. Period.
Hah! Made me laugh!!
Because apparently ESPN is staffed with idiots. I love idiots. They make me seem smart!
Not giving anyone space there!
Perhaps an selfie taken at Chicago bathhouse Man’s Country.
;)
...if he doesn’t make the team?
+++++
Well if he doesn’t make the team, it won’t be because he didn’t try...player by player.
Bill Tilden, the great tennis champion from the 1920’s, is still the only great athlete known to be a homosexual at the time he played. Other players of the time said Tilden never showered with the other players after matches, and nobody ever saw him nude. Although, like other homosexual athletes of those times Tilden never outed himself, virtually everybody in the game knew of his sexual benhavior.
I’m sure the players got over the novelty really quick. Especially when you are busting your hump to make the squad.
His off the court "activities" were apparently even more than would be acceptable today.
He liked the boys, and he liked them young.
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