Quote:Moronic digression?  It's an honest question.

 

Michael Sam made a spectacle of himself.  He made it a story by going to ESPN and coming out on a national platform.  At that point, he became an advocate, and I'm pretty certain based on what has happened since that this was his intention.  It has gotten him exposure that he never would have gotten otherwise.  How many other 7th round picks had cameras set up in their living room to stage a celebration when they were drafted? 

 

The fact that he and his agent inked a deal to do a reality show with the Oprah contradicts what he was saying all along that this is just about football. 

 

To me this entire thing has felt contrived from the start.  Based on the article I linked above, I'm not alone in that feeling.  In the thread that was eventually locked down, I made the point that if you looked at scouting reports, most pretty much indicated he'd go undrafted.  Coming out on ESPN and declaring he was gay put a spotlight on him that arguably wound up guilting the SEC into naming him the defensive player of the year.  It also could have been used to leverage his sexual preference to guilt a team into drafting him. 

 

If you watched the draft day coverage on day 3, it was mostly about Michael Sam.  ESPN and the NFL Network both did these fluff reports on Michael Sam, and it seemed like every 15 minutes they were flipping to his staged living room camera to make sure teams knew he was still waiting for a call. 

 

The worst part is the circus has just begun.  Jeff Fisher says he won't hesitate to cut him if he doesn't fit what they're doing.  We'll see.  If he does, I'll give it 30 minutes before some advocacy group comes out declaring him a homophobe.  They'll pressure the NFL, always the politically correct bunch they are, and threaten to boycott the league.  Would it shock anyone if the league comes back and reprimands Fisher and the Rams if they cut him?  We've already seen players fined and put into "rehab" for having an opinion about having to see two dudes lick cake off each other's face on Twitter, or a video run repeatedly on ESPN of a kiss.

 

In the end, none of this is about football as Sam claimed it was. 

 

It was a pointless question.

 

It was essentially, "This thing I don't like said its being something I don't like isn't all about getting coverage, therefore this thing that I don't like is a hypocrite for getting coverage."

 

I didn't ask about him getting coverage, I asked how he'd feel about the coverage if it were something he were more sympathetic to.

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