Posted on 03/27/2015 6:46:29 AM PDT by massmike
Michael Sam reveals that he is not the only gay player in the NFL.
Speaking at the 2015 Dallas Holocaust Museum Upstander Speaker series, the first openly gay player drafted into the league that other gay NFL players have reached out to him.
“I am not the only gay person in the NFL,” Sam told the audience, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I’m just saying there is a lot of us. I respect the players that did reach out to me and had the courage to tell me that they were also gay, but they do not have the same courage as I do to come out before I even played a down in the NFL.”
Sam, who was drafted in the seventh round by the St. Louis Rams and later was signed to the Dallas Cowboys practice squad before getting cut, was surprised at how it was a “huge deal” for an openly gay player to get drafted.
“Was it a risky move? Yes. But at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn’t going to be a big deal,” Sam explained, according to the Star-Telegram. “Maybe I was naïve. Maybe I thought it was 2014, and people will understand that there’s gay NFL players. There’s gay athletes everywhere. But I was clearly wrong. It was a huge deal.”
Sam recently participated in the NFL’s veterans combine as he still hopes to latch onto a team for the 2015 season. He told reporters following the combine that he was open to playing in the Canadian Football League.
Sam is currently on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.”
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Sam may not be but he’s sure the one in your face about it 24/7.
I’m betting Michael Sam contracts HIV within the next 5 years.
Any takers?
Bingo! "That's a nice little athletic career you got going. it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."
Yeah, what with his broad experience in playing the game at the pro level, huh?
I'm sure he'll fit in with that bunch of brain-damaged idiots on ESPN.
Maybe. But certainly the only one who can’t keep his mouth shut about it. And also the only one with such a lack of talent he won’t be in the NFL much longer.
Well, good for you, Michael! Why don’t you go and have a love-fest with all your new ‘buddies’, get AIDS and get 6-foot under!
In all truthfulness, homosexuality is a serious mental illness that can be successfully treated, and you, Mr. NFL I’m-so-proud-I’m-gay, need to come out of your intense mental fog and seek out treatment.
That goes for you too, Mr. Jenner; you are NOT a woman, the Lord made you a man and the feelings you have are due to the mental illness known as homosexuality. Seek treatment and seek HIM.
I thought he wasn’t in the NFL any longer.
How about a “League of their own”. Down Low low fives all around. Penalties for extra butt touches.
I judge by actual observable evidence. Going by the number of fruity celebration prancing and self-congratulatory dances, 90% of NFL players are indisputably homosexual.
Obviously.
Freegards
How would he know? Not like he even played a down.
He’s not. AFAIK.
Maybe he found out who wanted to take warm showers until the wee hours of the morning?
I don’t care what you do in your personal life.
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