Michael Sam, an All-Amerin fensive leman om Missouri and the Associated Prs' SEC Defensive Player of the Year, said that he is gay terviews wh ESPN's Outsi the L and the New York Tim on Sunday.
Contents:
- MIZZOU'S MICHAEL SAM SAYS HE'S GAY
- WHAT HAPPENED TO MICHAEL SAM? NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NGRATULAT CARL NASSIB ON SOCIAL MEDIA
- BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
- MIZZOU'S MICHAEL SAM SAYS HE'S GAY
MIZZOU'S MICHAEL SAM SAYS HE'S GAY
Michael Sam, an All-Amerin fensive leman om Missouri and the Associated Prs' SEC Defensive Player of the Year, said that he is gay terviews wh ESPN's Outsi the L and the New York Tim on Sunday. * missouri tigers gay football player *
Michael Sam, an All-Amerin fensive leman om Missouri and the Associated Prs' SEC Defensive Player of the Year, said that he is gay an terview wh ESPN's "Outsi the L" on stated publicly what his teammat and ach at Mizzou have known sce Augt: "I am an openly, proud gay man. Assumg that he is drafted, Sam uld bee the first openly gay player the history of the NFL. "In 2014, "Gay Man to Enter Workforce" has the everyday-occurrence sound of a headle The Onn.
"And I ed that opportuny jt to tell them that I was gay. I didn't want to say, 'Hey, I might be gay. "Tellg the world I'm gay is nothg pared to that.
"Sam had dner on Saturday wh Dave Kopay, a former NFL player who said he was gay 1975 -- three years after his playg reer Sunday night, the NFL released a statement supportg Sam. "Among other male pro athlet who have said they are gay, Jason Colls, a 12-year NBA veteran, me out a Sports Illtrated article at the end of the 2012-13 regular season, but has not played for a team sce. Midfielr Robbie Rogers beme first openly gay male athlete to play a U.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MICHAEL SAM? NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NGRATULAT CARL NASSIB ON SOCIAL MEDIA
"I jt want to go to the team who drafts me, " he said, "bee that team knows about me, knows that I'm gay, and also knows that I work hard. "Sam rejects the appallg slanrs that sometim have been hurled at gay men.
"I mean, people will talk about the stereotype of gays beg the locker room...
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BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
"If a gay person did that, I wouldn't ll that person weak. I'm Ain Amerin, and I'm gay, " he said. While Nassib is the only openly gay player the NFL, Michael Sam was the first.
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After appearg at the NFL Veteran Combe, Michael Sam agreed to a two-year al wh the CFL's Montreal Alouett, beg their first openly gay player. Seven years before Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay on Monday, an all-Amerin om the Universy of Missouri risked a promisg reer wh a public claratn. “I am an openly proud gay man, ” Michael Sam, a 24-year-old fensive end, told ESPN and the New York Tim Febary announcement followed a surprisg 12-2 season for Missouri, which won the SEC East and then the Cotton Bowl as Sam was named the SEC fensive player of the year.
MIZZOU'S MICHAEL SAM SAYS HE'S GAY
On Tuday, Sam thanked Nassib for jog the ranks of LGBTQ football players, payg special tribute to the donatn Nassib ma to the Trevor Project, a nonprof foced on suici Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib announced June 21 on Instagram that he is gay, makg him the first active NFL player to e out. The NFL particular had faced cricism for allegedly askg prospects about their sexual orientatn and had been acced of hamperg players who spoke out favor of gay many profsnal athlet around the world, cludg several retired NFL players, had e out by 2014, no one who was still playg football had dared to make that move before story rurfaced on Monday when the 28-year-old Nassib, who was drafted by the Cleveland Browns 2016 and now plays for the Rairs, announced that he is gay a vio on Instagram. “Here’s the tth: Everyone ow Michael Sam such a b of gratu, ” Wa Davis, a former NFL rnerback who me out as gay 2012, told The Washgton Post on Monday.