Quote:The media circus around Manziel is much larger than anything around Michael Sam in spite of Sam being the much more noteworthy player. There are people IN THIS THREAD claiming that Sam's "media circus" is why he's not worth having on an NFL team. However, Manziel's "media circus" is larger and has gone mostly noted only in passing.

 

So either I'm right, and this is really about bigotry over Sam's sexuality, or there are posts with people saying teams shouldn't have a guy like Manziel because of the "media circus". You claimed that there are people making those kinds of assertions about Manziel, so go ahead and link some of them.

 

There are people who are very glad we didn't take Manziel.

 

But there were also people who said things like "Sam can't be cut.  There'll be too much backlash."  Of which there wasn't.  Sam never played the gay card either.  Sam has opened the door for other openly gay players.


It does make me wonder though--

 

Imagine an openly gay player is drafted in a state with gay marriage.  Would they then be unlikely to sign with a team's state where gay marriage is banned?  I'd have to imagine so.  One of my best friends is a lesbian, and she's considered moving so that she could marry her girlfriend.  I'd think it'd be something that effects their decision.  

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