Posted on 05/17/2014 10:02:38 PM PDT by chessplayer
Michael Sam’s declaration in February that he wanted just to be known as a football player, and not a gay football player, started to unravel with the news that he was working with the Oprah Winfrey Network on a reality show on his "historic" journey. Who was causing the distraction now? Not the “haters.”
Sources told ESPN.com that the network's plan was to follow Sam's personal life as he tried to make the Rams, dividing the content into six to eight segments. The Rams and the NFL said they were unaware of the project prior to its announcement.
“After careful consideration and discussion with the St. Louis Rams, the untitled Michael Sam project has been postponed, allowing Michael the best opportunity to achieve his dream of making the team,” said Erik Logan, president of OWN. “OWN is about elevating and empowering people to achieve their best. It’s clear that we, along with the world, recognize the important opportunity that Michael now has in this moment. We will continue to support him in his journey to earn a spot playing for the Rams.”
“After today’s meeting with the Rams, we collectively feel it is best to postpone the project,” added Sam’s agent Cameron Weiss. “This will allow for Michael to have a total focus on football and will ensure no distractions to his teammates. EVERYBODY INVOLVED REMAINS COMMITTED TO THIS PROJECT and understands its historical importance as well as its positive message.”
I didn’t see the play, but during the 1967 I heard a great deal about it being connected to the actor Robert Morse. I think he made the movie, which was a fun musical. Believe it or not Rudy Valee was in it as Jasper Biggley and Maureen Arthur was Hedy LaRue. The Wiki says that Robert Morse is still alive at 83 y/o. His height was only 5ft 5inches. Only Tom Cruise comes close to that these days. I always have admired actors and doctors because they make their living by using their memory. My memory is adequate, but less so as time moves on. A good actor actually becomes that person while in the role.
That is exactly why I stopped acting.
I was in college at the time. I had a long string of both comedic and dramatic roles including some good quality summer stock productions under my belt.
I was wondering out loud why my girlfriend broke up with me and my roommate said "For the same reason your going to have to find a new roommate next year. No one knows who you might be from day to day."
I made Stanislavski proud.
Goodell is completely destroying the NFL. He is alienating die-hard fans and turning the sport into a leftist laboratory. Watch as the homosexual lobby will put pressure on the NFL to "reach out" to more homosexual players, hire homosexual coaches, and even wear rainbow flag emblems on their jerseys like they have the U.S. flag. Fans are going to get disgusted and leave; players will quit or retire early.
The homosexual agenda has nothing to do with "equality." It is all about destroying traditional institutions and leaving them hollowed out and then they move on to the next institution.
This boy better concentrate on his ability to play because if he doesn’t he is going to have his a#se handed to him (so to speak}.
Sam I Am is the homosexual Ryan Leaf and locker room poison. The sooner the Rams cut him, the better. The organization already has jeopardized its off season and training camp activities.
Anyone interested in this nonsense can log on to a gay porn site. Sam is a fraud and Oprah promotes frauds.
Your point supports what I have been explaining why I feel that so much of the Hollyweird crowd is so impressionable, or should I say gullible.
They have spent all of their time being someone else that they have totally forgotten who they are. So in desperation, they are gullible enough to latch onto anything the crowd around them tells them they are just to be accepted. It is an overriding deep desire they have to be liked.
I was watching the History of the Eagles yesterday and something struck me about how they went for total abusers of drink and drugs to a total ban on them while they were doing anything Eagles. It hit me when they were talking about how accepting the crowds were when they got back together that I put this one to my sense of logic.
The euphoria they feel while on stage is the thing they were trying to put into their lives off stage and tried everything they could to keep that on stage feeling when not performing. It was only in their retrospect that their love of the music combined with their families was good enough and the performance was just icing on the cake.
I think you are dead on in your personality analysis.
Your point about the Eagles and their ban on drugs is further borne out in the lives of many other stars both in the music and acting world. Aerosmith, Robert Duvall, Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins ... the list goes on and on.
Then there are those who don’t get that message and their names are those lamented as passing too early - Joplin, Hendricks, Winehouse and many, many others whose lives end at midpoint because of immersion in ersatz euphoria.
1. I bet these idiots thought that because he’s drafted he’s on the team.
2. I bet he was molested as a child and there were already plans to edit that out of this “reality” show.
Yep!
I am 100% certain you’re correct on your point #1.
I am 95% sure you are correct on point #2. The question on #2 would be, was the perp someone like The Usurper’s “Pop?” Or perhaps some other school’s version of Jerry Sandusky?
In his first days, he might make a good tight end. After that, he may not be tight enough for the title.
How to get rich and famous in this country.
Not by hard work and intelligence, but by membership in a government-favored victim group.
Wonder how many Rams fans are putting there season tickets on eBay?
Living around Black people makes the kids sick.
This is the new 'racket' in town:
Hood Disease: Inner City Oakland Youth Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Start sending the (life long?) disability checks.
Bingo.
If he flops in the NFL, he’ll join Jesse and Rev Al with a weekly TV show.
It was Joe Walsh’s retrospect on his issues when he asked the question as to whether Hemmingway without the alcohol or Hendrix without the LSD could have reached their levels of creativity. He justified his use of alcohol and cocaine to that mind set, until after he went through rehab and in thinking about that, he said it never crossed his mind that those you also mentioned were all dead.
It was quite illuminating to see the retrospect interviews with all the band members over the years.
Sadly, while the NFL continues to push this kind of cultural decay, many conservative Americans will continue to support the NFL and, by extension, the cultural decay.
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