Is there a big “gay” community in St. Louis to come out and buy tickets???
It would be a public relations headache for them to cut him.
The untold story here is that lots of guys get drafted but get cut in training camp. Just getting drafted doesn’t mean a player will for sure make the team. If that happens to Sam, the liberals will have their hissy fit and generate tons of bad publicity for the Rams and the NFL.
In St Louis, the Rams are "dead team walking"....They know their move from St Louis is inevitable.
“If that happens to Sam, the liberals will have their hissy fit and generate tons of bad publicity for the Rams and the NFL.”
Well-put. But I think the Rams know that they risk a firestorm by cutting him - and they won’t. They don’t want to take the bloom off the rose, so to speak, for being the team that drafted the first openly gay college player.
If he’s not playing well, he’ll ride the bench. But at the same time, if they don’t play him, they’ll receive criticism that Sam is not getting playing time because he’s gay.
The Rams really stepped in it on this one. Their only way out is to hope that Sam actually develops into a good player in the NFL.