Don't recall this kind of reaction when Tim Tebow got drafted, yunno, the same former Heisman trophy winner that they would later run out of the league. To think, Sam put on a horrible show during NFL combine drills, but what do skills matter when the liberal media loves you for choosing homosexuality over God:
Over seven rounds of the National Football League draft, teams chose more than 200 players, from surefire stars to kickers and all-but-anonymous players from tiny Division II programs.One player who was repeatedly passed over was Michael Sam, a consensus all-American at Missouri and The Associated Press’s defensive player of the year in the Southeastern Conference, considered college football’s most competitive conference. Sam was also the first publicly gay player waiting to be drafted.Finally, after nearly seven hours of picks on Saturday, the third and final day of the draft, Mike Kensil, the N.F.L.’s vice president for game operations, walked to the lectern and read Sam’s name. Cheers erupted among the several hundred fans left at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, the site of the draft.Sam, a defensive end, was the 249th player selected. Only seven players followed. Then the draft was over.Sam’s draft status was seen as a barometer of whether the N.F.L. was ready to accept an openly gay player, particularly because the National Basketball Association broke that barrier in February when Jason Collins joined the Nets.
“Thank you to the St. Louis Rams and the whole city of St. Louis,” Sam wrote on Twitter not long after he was picked.“I’m using every once of this to achieve greatness!!” he continued, correcting himself shortly afterward to say “ounce.”Later, speaking to reporters, Sam said he had a chip on his shoulder because he was chosen so late in the draft.“I knew I was going to get picked somewhere,” he said. “Every team that passed me, I was thinking how I’m going to sack their quarterback.”
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