Missouri’s Michael Sam appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated

SI ^ | February 12, 2014 | Staff

[C19fan]

Defensive end Michael Sam wanted the NFL team that drafts him to have no doubts about his sexuality. Now he is poised to become the league’s first openly gay player. His Missouri teammates accept him. Will the pros? “Jason Collins is an activist; Wade Davis is an activist,” says the 24-year-old Sam. “I see myself as a football player.”

[al baby]

I long for the day this is not news

[John O]

If he sees himself as a football player why did he feel it was so important to tell us he takes it up the butt?

The second law of homosexuality applies.

[Cowboy Bob]

I know the guy is a football player, but the real question is: is he a pitcher or a catcher?

[al baby]

gayfreeper69?

[dfwgator]

I think this is what Sam daydreams about.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When the backlash comes, it is going to be epic.

[real saxophonist]

One of my favourite lines comes from the Dead Kennedys:

My news of the world comes from Sports Illustrated. (Terminal Preppie)

I had a brother-in-law who would take the Sports section out of the Atlanta paper, and throw the whole rest of the paper in the trash. So if I wanted to read the actual news, or the comics, or whatever, I had to dig the paper out of the trash.

[Fightin Whitey]

You and me both brother (sister?).

Seem to have lost the way tho.

[CatherineofAragon]

Bump to that. I’m sick of queers.

[Starstruck]

gayfreeper69?

classygreeneyedblond.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Sports Illustrated has always been run by liberals and queers.

[longtermmemmory]

iow: since he was an overatted player and could not cry racism to force purchase of his skills, he cried homosexual in order to embarrase those who did not want him in the first place.

[Texas resident]

Yep. Next step is to put him on a Wheaties box.
That will finish him.

[dfwgator]

Will EA put him on the cover of Madden ‘15?

[Hoffer Rand]

“Jason Collins is an activist; Wade Davis is an activist,” says the 24-year-old Sam. “I see myself as a football player.”

Then why bring it up? I don't run around at work discussing what I do in my bedroom. It's nobody's business. My employer didn't hire me based on what happens in my home.

[al baby]

Better put him on a box of Fruit Loops

[longtermmemmory]

it ceased being a sports magazine some time ago.

too much NYC publisher.

[a fool in paradise]

Never read it, but homosexualists’ numbers in the media appear to be well over 10%, far more than their numbers among the general population.

They push an agenda from within a closet.

This is not front cover news.

When Houston won the NBA championship, THAT didn’t even appear on the front cover (of anything but a regional market edition).