Michael Sam Says He Is Gay; May Become First Publicly Gay Player in N.F.L.

Oooh, wish he hadn't done that.

 

How does he feel about green eggs and ham?

 

The idea that "Sam should have been taken three rounds earlier" is idiotic. If he was that good of a prospect - a legit 4th rounder - someone would have grabbed him in the 6th. People act like Sam is the first decorated player to not be considered a great pro prospect and it is reaching levels of idiocy the Marshall Henderson's of this world couldn't even reach.

The guy is undersized, weak, has no position and not fast and his workouts sucked, no pun intended.

The narrative people want to write so badly about "closed minded bigots wouldn't draft this guy" is just not there and now the Rams have no choice but to keep him even if he doesn't merit a spot.

This whole thing was a joke - from the Rams, who seem to be loaded at defensive line, taking him, to ESPN acting surprised when he was selected (only time all day they went to podium), to the "impromptu" kiss --- this was poorly scripted reality TV at its worst and made a joke of a process thousands work their ass off to try and be a part of and don't ever get a sniff.

I don't give a rats ass about gay or straight, sports are supposed to be the one arena left where "earning your spot" isn't some evil concept of the wacko tea partiers.....

And the fact that so-called journalists are throwing any sense of objectivity and ethics out the window and cheerlead for a write a narrative regardless of the facts is sickening and more proof that this profession of journalism is no longer on life support, it is dead.

 

Wow.

Looks like he wanted more than "just the opportunity" after all.

 

Sam is falling prey to the built-in excuse, but he's hardly the first person to think he should have been drafted higher. In fact I'd guess that every seventh-round pick this weekend thought he should have gone in the fourth round, just as every fourth-round pick thinks he should have gone in the second round and every second-rounder thinks he should have gone in the first round. It's how athletes are wired.

 

A real travesty would be someone drafted in the seventh round the same year he won the Heisman Trophy, the Davey O'Brien Award, the Walter Camp Award, the Maxwell Award, the Johnny Unitas Trophy and the Chic Harley Award.

Oh, wait.

 

Which is exactly what he could've said, sans the accusation that other teams "chickened out."

 

"I felt I was a first-round quarterback," Torretta said. "As far as these ratings go, I don't know how they rate some of the guys. Obviously, I did everything asked of me in college and I felt I have all the ability to be in the NFL and I felt I should have been up there.
"I've thrown 1,000 passes in college and won 26 of 28 games and two national championships. I don't think there's anything else to say. I have nothing to be ashamed of in my career at Miami, nothing at all."
http://articles.philly.com/1993-04-27/sports/25981818_1_gino-torretta-quarterback-picture-sour-note

 

Well, I certainly hope Sam does more to prove the scouts wrong than Torretta did.

 

So the difference between idiotic and reality was being picked in the sixth round or being picked in the seventh.

Brilliant!

 

I heard it mentioned, from a clip they showed on John Oliver's HBO show of all places, that nine of Sam's 11.5 sacks came in three games. He had three against Arkansas State, three against Vandy (not bad, but Early also had two in that game so there were some issues with the protection) and three against Florida, one of the worst teams in the country in terms of sacks allowed.

 

It seems like a real gotcha stat until you also hear that all Jadaveon Clowney's sacks came in three games too.