Posted on 05/14/2014 9:23:18 AM PDT by thetallguy24
Jackie Robinson is the blueprint, or at least that's what so many seem to believe. It certainly wouldn't be a bad example for Michael Sam to follow. Robinson broke MLB's color barrier by putting his head down and competing. He won over critics by winning games for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Just shut up and play. Jackie Robinson is an undeniable American hero for what he did. How he accomplished it was his choice. For him and his day, it was perfect. That day, though, was 1947. The suggestion Michael Sam as he reported for duty in St. Louis on Tuesday as the first openly gay player in NFL history needs to follow that lead, nearly seven decades later, is ridiculous. Just shut up and play? That suggests he must still be a prisoner to the bigots among us. It means he needs to avoid stepping on offended and uncomfortable toes while smashing down walls that no reasonable person believes should be standing. "I'm determined to be great," Sam said Tuesday at a news conference in St. Louis with the other Rams draft picks. "I want to train hard and try to make the team. All my focus is on trying to make the team." Maybe Sam will be like Robinson. Maybe that's the path he'll follow. It's his choice, though. It certainly isn't about the comfort level of those who believe their personal comfort is of any importance.
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You seem to have taken offense. I was just making a joke.
Not at all. I was too. Sorry. I thought you’d just laugh.
I apologize.
He’s neither big enough or fast enough to play on an NFL defense. If they force him onto a roster as a special-teams player, he’s going to get hurt, and probably badly, when going against actual NFL-caliber players.
Of course, then we’ll get treated to a never-ending lecture on how he was “targeted” for “cheap shots” aimed at ending his “career”. His real career will be as a “celebrity” for the homosexual agenda.
No need to. Just a simple misunderstanding. Take care.
I don’t think I’ll be watching any more football either.
I am not interested in this crapola, I’m tired as Hell of it being shoved down my throat by this idiot country, and I am going to simply turn it off.
Read about how Sam and his “handlers” manipulated the timing of his “coming out” To avoid (supposedly_ the “distraction” of his senior season (ie. amateur)
Yet in time before the NFL draft, just in time to get drafted (or scream and bitch if he didn’t) and of course, to get $$$ endorsements.
“Courageous”? I think now. All calculated to make him money regardless of draft status.
BTW, interesting that these “handlers” haven’t been looked into re Sam’s amateur status.
I’m sure the Rams were doing the league a favor by drafting him.... it would have been a PR nightmare if he’d gone undrafted.
Having said that, there is not much chance of him making this team. He lacks the athletic skill to play special teams, so he’ll have to beat out one of the Rams two backup D-Ends, William Hayes and Eugene Sims.... both of whom are very productive players.
There is probably a team that can use his pass rush ability, it’s just not the Rams.
I’ll be glad when the novelty wears off and we can get back to football. Jeff Fisher has told the media to do their thing now because once mini camp starts Michael Sam won’t be available.
AMEN to that.
“He should do a pose, as Tebow did. One can imagine the possibilities.”
Downward Dog?
His front teeth? They look a little.....off?
The first thing out of Sam’s mouth after he finished his cake kiss was crying and moaning that he should have been picked in the first rounds. Anyone who thought Sam wasn’t using his gayness for political calculation should have been shut up right then and there. This entire ordeal is a calculation he cooked up to get drafted and nothing more.
“Wonder if anyone will notice his boner in the locker room? “
They’ll have to do their best not to. Otherwise that’ll be cause for banishment to the NFL’s reeducation camp.
Good is evil. Evil is good. We are a messed up nation. Evil on the Throne - Good (decency & truth) on the Gallows. Sad, but true.
“Having said that, there is not much chance of him making this team”
There’s more of a chance of Sam trading in his boyfriend for Heidi Klum that being cut from the Lambs. Does anyone think pressure isn’t being applied by Goodell’s office or Goodell himself to keep him on that team at all costs?
And don’t forget the Government holding the NFL’s Anti-Trust Exemption over their heads like a Sword of Damocles.
That is a tough question, Mr. Serious Writer. What's a guy supposed to do when he can't shut up and can't play?
America-2014 has indeed become like an “evil” mirror-universe of everything the country used to be and everything it used to stand for.
Will he get hazed in training camp? Made to sing the Village Peoples greatest hits?
This writer better hope his pal doesn’t get treated like Tebow. After all Tebow got a team to the playoffs, went 2 games deep in the playoffs, and then the next season got blacklisted.
However, we all know that if Sam is an integral part of taking the Rams to the playoffs and going 2 deep into those playoffs that there’d be bloody hell to pay with the media if he suddenly got blacklisted the next season.
Not so with Tebow. It’s ok to discriminate against outspoken, conservative Christians. It’s unadulterated hate, bigotry, prejudice if it were happen to a homosexual.
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