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by: rocket Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 7:46am  
NFL fans, is anyone but me tired of hearing about Michael Sam? I'm like geez is this what we have to look forward to all season long should he make the Rams roster? It's not like this guy is the first man to walk on the moon. He is gay and states he wants to be treated like everyone else. I don't have a problem with that. However every time he makes a play I also don't want to hear "he's the first openly gay man to make an interception in a NFL game". Will he experience some disapproval from other players - absolutely. Anytime anyone is the first anything there's going to be pushback. I just don't want some broadcast announcer going "you know Sam got hit pretty hard on that play, do you think it's because...."        4951
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Okiedokie Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 7:50am  
NFL fans, is anyone but me tired of hearing about Michael Sam? I'm like geez is this what we have to look forward to all season long should he make the Rams roster? It's not like this guy is the first man to walk on the moon. He is gay and states he wants to be treated like everyone else. I don't have a problem with that. However every time he makes a play I also don't want to hear "he's the first openly gay man to make an interception in a NFL game".
 
Will he experience some disapproval from other players - absolutely. Anytime anyone is the first anything there's going to be pushback. I just don't want some broadcast announcer going "you know Sam got hit pretty hard on that play, do you think it's because...."
 
@rocket: I just read that one of the players(I forgot who) has to take a sensitivity class for negative tweets about him.That said, it is not his fault if the announcers and media make a spectacle out of it.
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 7:59am  
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 8:06am  
I'm tired of all the gay crap period. Why does it have to be announced? I didn't announce that I loved boobs and *****!
 
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You just did. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 8:10am  

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>> NFL fans, is anyone but me tired of hearing about Michael Sam? I'm like geez is this what we have to look forward to all season long should he make the Rams roster? It's not like this guy is the first man to walk on the moon. He is gay and states he wants to be treated like everyone else. I don't have a problem with that. However every time he makes a play I also don't want to hear "he's the first openly gay man to make an interception in a NFL game".
 
Will he experience some disapproval from other players - absolutely. Anytime anyone is the first anything there's going to be pushback. I just don't want some broadcast announcer going "you know Sam got hit pretty hard on that play, do you think it's because...."
 
@rocket: That said, it is not his fault if the announcers and media make a spectacle out of it.
 
@Okiedokie: I agree.  However he's starting to become part of the spectacle by stating with his talent he should have been drafted much earlier.  He's lucky he was drafted at all based upon his combine showing.  His professional football career or lack thereof will be judged by  one factor and one factor only.  Either he has the skills to compete or he doesn't.
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 8:14am  
When has a 7th round draft pick ever been talked about this much?!I don't care what/who he likes and I don't want to hear about it....we don't hear about Peyton Manning's wife or preferences every time he steps on the field 4951
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 8:16am  
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 8:23am  
It wont last...eventually people will stop giving a rats @ss about this when he starts choking out on the field.  Still there will be a group of people who will continually support him because of their own agenda.Frankly I agree with most of the people here...dont care who you date or wed...makes no difference in my life. Just dont expect a gold star because if it. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 8:27am  
I don't imagine he'll make the team unless he's a special teams guy.The only problem I have with the entire thing is this:  If he wants to be known and treated only like a football player, then why is every media outlet going above and beyond and NOT treating him like only a football player?  If I were him, I'd be disgusted by all the attention.  But then again, that may be exactly what his agenda is/was all along. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 9:10am  
I just don't understand why he felt the need to "announce" that he was gay and having a coming out party, so to speak.  It was needless!  Everyone knows there are gay football players, just as there are gay baseball players, doctors, teachers, etc etc etc!  Who gives a rat's ***?  He should have just let his performance on the field speak for him, but for some reason thought it wise to cloud his draft potential with what has become a media circus.  Oh well.  4951
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 10:22am  
I just don't understand why he felt the need to "announce" that he was gay and having a coming out party, so to speak.  It was needless!  Everyone knows there are gay football players, just as there are gay baseball players, doctors, teachers, etc etc etc!  Who gives a rat's ***?  He should have just let his performance on the field speak for him, but for some reason thought it wise to cloud his draft potential with what has become a media circus.  Oh well. 
 
@buffaloglenn:  I thought it was brave of him to do. Someone has to be the first. When you have current players saying things like:
 
"I don't do the gay guys man," said Culliver, whose Niners play the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. "I don't do that. No, we don't got no gay people on the team, they gotta get up out of here if they do.
 
"Can't be with that sweet stuff. Nah…can't be…in the locker room man. Nah."
That's why he had to 'announce'.
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 10:29am  
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 12:20pm  
I think he should have waited until after the draft and he was on a team to "come out". Since he didn't, it's always gonna be about his sexual preference and not his skills as a football player. He got picked? Great! They just wanted to make a statement. He didn't get picked? It's because he's gay and nobody wants to deal with that. I'm not saying he would be the one to make that an issue, but you know a lot of people will.
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 12:49pm  
Well if anyone things they will change the views of this in the NFL they are living in some fantasy land.No doubt there have been gay players, but to be this open, they better have some thick skin.  Because the locker room and field is where crap is talked nonstop.  Football isn't a kind sweet sport.  It is hard hitting with a lot of crap talk.  It just is what it is.  This guy better be walking on water good, or he will not last.And if people have an issue with that, they need to go after soccer.  It is unreal the racism and sexism, that the fans and players show all the time.  
 
@Fallon: I wonder how many people said the same thing about MLB and Jackie Robinson.  It's bigotry instead of racism but the intolerance of others is at the core of both so it has to at least be a parallel if not the same thing. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 12:53pm  
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jax Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   May 12, '14 12:55pm  
Like I said, go look at international soccer.
 
@Fallon: On purpose? 
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