Michael Sam gaed overnight fame by beg the first openly gay football player to be drafted to the NFL.
Contents:
- MICHAEL SAM: 'I'M NOT THE ONLY GAY PERSON THE NFL'
- 'DANCG WH THE STARS' 2015 CAST INCLUS FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER AS A CONTTANT
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
MICHAEL SAM: 'I'M NOT THE ONLY GAY PERSON THE NFL'
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News servicFeb 24, 2015, 09:53 AM ETMichael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL, is a member of the st for the latt season of ABC's "Dancg Wh The Stars. Michael Sam: 'I'm Not the Only Gay Person the NFL'. The first openly gay player drafted by the league says other players have sce e out to him.
After g out last year, Michael Sam says other players the Natnal Football League have privately nfid him – and he’s not the only one who’s gay. Sam, 25, currently a nttant on Dancg wh the Stars and the first openly gay football player to be drafted by the league, still aspir to jo a team followg stts last year wh the St. He cled to say how many, but as part of his prepared remarks, he said: “I am not the only gay person the NFL.
'DANCG WH THE STARS' 2015 CAST INCLUS FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER AS A CONTTANT
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I rpect the players that did reach out to me and had the urage to tell me that they were also gay, but they do not have the same urage as I do to e out before I even played a down the NFL.
Maybe I thought was 2014, and people will unrstand that there’s gay NFL players. There’s gay athlet everywhere. Although he unts on celebry e om Dancg wh the Stars, he says his failure to fd work as a football player is a likely reason other gay players haven’t followed his lead.
“I’m unemployed, and I don’t believe I’m out of the NFL bee I’m gay, ” he said.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
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— -- Football player Michael Sam, who ma headl this year for beg the first openly gay man drafted to the NFL, was voted off ABC’s “Dancg Wh the Stars” Monday night. The pair pared the story of the dance to the journey of Sam's relatnship wh his tranged father, who spoke out agast Sam after he me out publicly as a gay man. "Sam, 25, ma headl last year as the NFL’s first openly gay draft pick when he was selected by the St.