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In the end, Michael Sam's legacy will be decided on the field [Yes, that is a real headline]
Q City Metro ^ | 2/24/14 | Dante Oliver

Posted on 02/24/2014 9:35:26 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

....While Sam is a really good player -- not a great one -- the NFL is promoting him as one of the biggest spectacles at the combine....

The NFL is promoting it that way because a lot of people are interested in seeing Sam’s workout.

(Excerpt) Read more at qcitymetro.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: homosexuality; nfl; ngl
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Sorry, forgot to add the sarcasm tag to my previous post!


21 posted on 02/24/2014 10:01:04 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: SoFloFreeper

The gay Missouri guy was here for the NFL combine.

So he has this big press conference Saturday with 60 reporters and says “I wish people would just treat me like any other football player”

WTF?? Why not just keep your mouth shut in the first place.


22 posted on 02/24/2014 10:03:52 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation
Ran a slow 40.

His weight lifting horrible for a defensive lineman.

He is a Linebacker but he is too slow for that position. One brave person tweeted that his path to the NFL is too work on being on the kickoff team.

23 posted on 02/24/2014 10:10:58 AM PST by scooby321
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To: Slyfox

When a player got slapped on the butt, it was a way to celebrate a good play.

With Michael Sam it could be construed as sexual harassment.


24 posted on 02/24/2014 10:12:30 AM PST by TheRobb7 ("Patriots don't negotiate the terms of our enslavement"--JimRob)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Happened to be visiting someone who was watching news on an ABC affiliate. Had an interview where he was whining that he wanted to be judged as a football player, not a gay football player. IIRC, he told everyone he was gay. If he didn’t want to talk about it, he shouldn’t have talked about it. IMHO.


25 posted on 02/24/2014 10:15:25 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: TheRobb7
Yeah, now when they do there normal butt-slapping we will have to wonder how many gays are in the NFL.

This is a commie tactic - to infect just a part so that you think that it is the whole.

What real guy is gonna want to play a gay sport?

26 posted on 02/24/2014 10:17:17 AM PST by Slyfox (When Jesus sees a momma holding her little baby, it reminds him of his own momma.)
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To: mbarker12474

He won’t be a tight end for long.


27 posted on 02/24/2014 10:20:45 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: scooby321

“He is a Linebacker but he is too slow for that position. One brave person tweeted that his path to the NFL is too work on being on the kickoff team.”

Yup, he will be a special teamer at best. He is just not that good!


28 posted on 02/24/2014 10:21:43 AM PST by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: TheRobb7

With Michael Sam it could be construed as sexual harassment
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Do you mean if a ‘straight’ player slaps ‘ITS’ butt

OR (maybe even worse)

If IT slaps a ‘straight’ players butt.

One would/could be sexual assault OR sexual harassment.

It gets harder(?) to keep the facts straight(?) every day.

While ‘they’ may not target IT, surely those that choose to ‘pal up’ with IT will be a target and Lord help the player that stands to close to him in the huddle.

Of course, they are making moves to stop the trash talk so....

If IT makes it and some other ‘confused souls’ - those not sure if they are M or F or Other - will put new meaning into the old saying “Why not put dresses on them and let them hold hands in the huddle”.

Make Alex Karras not only correct but (probably) wanting him to punch another horse.

At least he didn’t have to see this, but he did sort of ‘predict’ it.....


29 posted on 02/24/2014 10:27:20 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --When you have them by the short hairs, the minds and hearts soon follow.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

so the F’ in NFL stands for fag now?


30 posted on 02/24/2014 10:28:34 AM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: SoFloFreeper; All

Sams combine workout has been a total flop....4.91 seconds in the forty while most 280 defensive lineman were running in the 4.6’s and 4.7’s (Sam weighs 260lbs), 17 reps on the bench press (24 was the average for dlineman), 25 inch vertical jump (only 3 were worse- 330-pound Louis Nix was 25.5 inches) and he looked awful in drills...


31 posted on 02/24/2014 10:30:01 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: scooby321

And there you have the reasons for him “coming out” before the combine and draft. In the vernacular of the NFL, Sam is a “tweener,” too small to play DT, a bit short for DE and a tad slow for OLB. He was looking like a late-round draft choice, and I imagine there were plenty of NFL GMs willing to take a pass on him—maybe offer a free agent contract.

Now, as the “first openly gay draft prospect,” Sam is almost certain to be drafted, probably in round three. There are plenty of “progressive” front offices in the league who would give him a shot, just for the favorable p.r. And once he’s on a roster, it will be more difficult to get rid of him, and risk being labeled a homphobe—or worst.

As I posted previously on FR, Michael Sam’s career will be much longer that it would/should be, thanks to his emergence from the closet. You might say that Sam “gayed” his way into the NFL, just as Jayson Collins has resurrected his NBA career by coming out.


32 posted on 02/24/2014 10:31:59 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Ingtar

That’s because all those scouts are “homophobic”...

;-)


33 posted on 02/24/2014 10:45:20 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: ExNewsExSpook

“There are plenty of “progressive” front offices in the league who would give him a shot”


another words he’ll play ten years with the pittsburgh steelers....


34 posted on 02/24/2014 10:45:49 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

There’s a field behind the arena where gays hang out.


35 posted on 02/24/2014 10:50:16 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

This gives the “F” in NFL an entirely new meaning!


36 posted on 02/24/2014 10:51:16 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Durus

I asked my wife the rhetorical question this morning: “Why do they want to force people to go against their religion?”

Then I asked “And why are muslims exempt?”

The only possible solution is to destroy the country.

Then I ask “Why does the left want to give their kids a country that won’t offer them the opportunities they had?”


37 posted on 02/24/2014 10:54:09 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: max americana

Great minds think alike!


38 posted on 02/24/2014 10:57:39 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: WayneS

I guess the stopwatches are as well.


39 posted on 02/24/2014 10:58:36 AM PST by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Ingtar

Yes. You see, the stopwatches are Swiss, and it is a well established fact that the Swiss are homophobic.

;-)


40 posted on 02/24/2014 11:28:28 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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