Michael Sam - remember his boyfriend - or him?

[viewing ownly]

Something that really got my goat was seeing the comments sections chock full of hate at Sam, which he wasn't able to cope with, and left football because of mental health struggles. Today, I read that he's a football coach overseas. An incredible fact : his jersey sales of any NFL athlete were the 6th biggest-selling after he was drafted. A gay sports icon for a New York minute.

His brief boyfriend during the time he was drafted in the NFL, he was engaged to a swimmer from the college he went to, Missouri. That man's name is Vito, who presently is a real estate agent. Even more surprising is that his grandfather was a massive, notorious criminal in the Kansas City mob (with a Wikipedia entry!), and his father was a massive, notorious criminal in Las Vegas. 

It seemed that after Kaepernick, Sam was the most disliked pro football player ever. I hope that Kap can have a change of mind and take the offer to be on the Chargers coaching staff. It is a fan-less franchise that could be desperately filling the seats with people who will pay to boo. I'd love to see the team succeed and have Kap get the last laugh. 

[BSR]

13 hours ago, viewing ownly said:

Something that really got my goat was seeing the comments sections chock full of hate at Sam, which he wasn't able to cope with, and left football because of mental health struggles. Today, I read that he's a football coach overseas. An incredible fact : his jersey sales of any NFL athlete were the 6th biggest-selling after he was drafted. A gay sports icon for a New York minute.

His brief boyfriend during the time he was drafted in the NFL, he was engaged to a swimmer from the college he went to, Missouri. That man's name is Vito, who presently is a real estate agent. Even more surprising is that his grandfather was a massive, notorious criminal in the Kansas City mob (with a Wikipedia entry!), and his father was a massive, notorious criminal in Las Vegas. 

It seemed that after Kaepernick, Sam was the most disliked pro football player ever. I hope that Kap can have a change of mind and take the offer to be on the Chargers coaching staff. It is a fan-less franchise that could be desperately filling the seats with people who will pay to boo. I'd love to see the team succeed and have Kap get the last laugh. 

Michael Sam might have been dealing with mental health issues, but that wasn't the reason he left football.  Frankly, he just wasn't good enough.

Plenty of good college players don't make it in the NFL.  Sam feared he was shut out/passed over because of homophobia, which is understandable but unfounded.

The gay sports website Outsports published a recent article about Sam, written by someone who knows him personally.  Some interesting insights, it's a good read.

[BuffaloKyle]

19 hours ago, viewing ownly said:

I hope that Kap can have a change of mind and take the offer to be on the Chargers coaching staff. It is a fan-less franchise that could be desperately filling the seats with people who will pay to boo. I'd love to see the team succeed and have Kap get the last laugh. 

The one article I read is he doesn't want to take the coaching position because he still wants to play. That ship sailed so long ago though. He also wants to play flag football in the LA Olympics in 2028.

[+ BOZO T CLOWN]

On 8/16/2024 at 1:04 AM, viewing ownly said:

Something that really got my goat was seeing the comments sections chock full of hate at Sam, which he wasn't able to cope with, and left football because of mental health struggles. Today, I read that he's a football coach overseas. An incredible fact : his jersey sales of any NFL athlete were the 6th biggest-selling after he was drafted. A gay sports icon for a New York minute.

His brief boyfriend during the time he was drafted in the NFL, he was engaged to a swimmer from the college he went to, Missouri. That man's name is Vito, who presently is a real estate agent. Even more surprising is that his grandfather was a massive, notorious criminal in the Kansas City mob (with a Wikipedia entry!), and his father was a massive, notorious criminal in Las Vegas. 

It seemed that after Kaepernick, Sam was the most disliked pro football player ever. I hope that Kap can have a change of mind and take the offer to be on the Chargers coaching staff. It is a fan-less franchise that could be desperately filling the seats with people who will pay to boo. I'd love to see the team succeed and have Kap get the last laugh. 

Bozo doesn't recall the "comments sections chock full of hate at Sam". In fact he was greeted warmly by fellow NFL players. Far more warmly than most NFL rookies. The mainstream media built him up to be a conquering hero - a pioneer for the gay rights movement in the NFL - a gay Jackie Robinson.
Bozo also don't recall any mental health struggle. @BSR is correct. He was simply not good enough to play in the NFL. He was a mediocre player who was too big to be a linebacker and too small to be a defensive lineman.

As for Colin Kaepernick, Jim Harbaugh did backtrack and said Kaepernick won't be coaching for the hapless Chargers this season.

Jim Harbaugh: Colin Kaepernick won't coach Chargers this year - ESPN

WWW.ESPN.COM

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Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said that Colin Kaepernick won't be on the team's staff this season.

Colin Kaepernick should never be allowed anywhere near an NFL sideline again. Let's not forget his kneeling at the playing of the National Anthem, his figuratively spitting on the American flag, and his comparing the NFL draft to a slave auction. 

Colin Kaepernick is a cancer. If Bozo was the team owner, he would not be pleased with Harbaugh for even contemplating hiring Kaepernick. Bozo would haul his sorry ass into his office to explain himself and would require he runs all potential hires by me, before he makes any offers. The NFL is a multi-billion dollar business. Some non-owner executive shouldn't be able to go rogue and unilaterally devalue the business. The NFL owners care greatly about it's marketability and appeal.

Does Colin Kaepernick need a job? He has a "job". He is a race hustling grievance monger which pays pretty well. Nike supposedly has a $20 million contract with him. That is far more than he made as a football player. Sharpton and Jackson must be jealous.
His endorsements skyrocketed after he showed open contempt for the very country that made him rich and famous in the first place. He's worth untold millions of dollars, and he was at best a mediocre quarterback (is that an insult to mediocre qb's everywhere?). He is a curse to any US company that hires him. If he would just move to China, North Korea, or closer to the country he hates, say Cuba, he would be hired immediately as a greeter at labor camps, or even a bellhop at a hotel. He's got that much talent. I'll give him that.

Here is some free advice for Colin Kaepernick: 
If you don't want to stand for the National Anthem, perhaps you should give your legs to a veteran who lost his. That way, a real man can stand in your place.
Arlington National Cemetery contains over 400,000 reasons why you stand for the National Anthem.

BTC

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Michael Sam....  A guy I regularly came in contact with as we lived in the same small building when I first moved to Dallas.

For a guy who's claim to fame was simply coming out, he sure acted like an A-list celebrity.

He unfortunately wasn't the nicest guy.  

 

 

[dutchal]

On 8/28/2024 at 4:41 PM, BenjaminNicholas said:

Michael Sam....  A guy I regularly came in contact with as we lived in the same small building when I first moved to Dallas.

For a guy who's claim to fame was simply coming out, he sure acted like an A-list celebrity.

He unfortunately wasn't the nicest guy.  

 

 

Was he hot in person?

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

1 hour ago, dutchal said:

Was he hot in person?

Nope. 

He wasn't taking care of himself and it showed.

[Monarchy79]

Michael Sam wanted to use the “first openly gay football player”, as his grift to get into the NFL.

The problem was that he just wasn’t that good. 

Talent must supersede politics when you are of any minority group. 

He had no fanfare for various reasons:

1.) The NFL didn’t find him to be of any benefit because he just wasn’t athletically good. 

2.) The sports community (fans and patrons of football), didn’t care enough about his antics, as he thought they would. 

3.) The black gay community found him to be yet another lame snow queen, so they had no interest in him either. 
 

All in all, Sam played himself. 
 

if he spent more time in the GYM, and PRACTICING, rather than trying to be a C -List celebrity, he could have possibly made something of himself  in the NFL.