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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ESPN really dropped the soap on this one. BALL! I MEANT BALL!
I wonder what the media will do if he doesn’t make the team?
Uhhh,, the NFL rule,, Don’t fumble the soap.. Especially after a loss.. Still stands.
That was really stupid, but they were really trying hard to be politically correct. Since there are stupid, ignorant fools, they really mucked it up.
How gay.
The rewards for be a stupid jerkball just keep increasing in our society.
The attention, the publicity of the reaction from the stupid initiating thing, celebrity 2 calling out celebrity 1 and then the other celebrities criticizing the first two celebrities in tag team fashion dissing each other.
I myself don’t give a crap about the first atom of it.
I remember when ESPN was actually considered a “dude” network.
Now it’s like the Huffington Post runs it.
Any company with a special kids gloves approach to “lgbt issues” (wtf? aids?) is a bad business
Why are so many interested in this topic when more important things are happening.
Is this guy a distraction? Nope, not at all. /s
Isn't the bigger concern if somebody else accidentally drops the soap while Sam is around?
If I were in the same locker room, I'd make sure to avoid using any of the facilities while Sam was around.
so the players were cool with him but since that didn’t make any headlines, they manufactured a story pretty much out of whole cloth and tried to pass it off as a distraction.
Sam will be hearing, “Oops! Gotta run!” quite often in the facilities.
good gravy
How much you wanna bet ESPN got a hyperventilating little call from the LGBT in Chief himself?
Mother Jones
Drop the soap and find out
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