sports as we know it. out sports points out his movement, will be simply playing the sport as an out gay man, a role many have waited years for someone to step into. for his college teammates, it s a role he stepped into. i told my teammates this past august. i came out to my teammates. they took it great. they rallied around me, supported me. i couldn t have asked for better teammates. sam played the entire 2013 season leading the s.e.c. in sacks and leading his team to a win in the cotton bowl as a gay man out to his team and coaching staff. southeastern conference is widely considered the best in college football. missou was one of the top teams last year. michael sam was one of missou s most valuable players. we re talking about s.e.c. defensive player of the year, michael sam. you know, as long as he s making plays, who cares if he likes boys or girls, you know? public response has also for the most part been overwhelmingly positive,
movement, will be simply playing the sport as an out gay man, a role many have waited years for someone to step into. for his college teammates, it s a role he stepped into. i told my teammates this past august. i came out to my teammates. they took it great. they rallied around me, supported me. i couldn t have asked for better teammates. sam played the entire 2013 season leading the s.e.c. in sacks and leading his team to a win in the cotton bowl as a gay man out to his team and coaching staff. southeastern conference is widely considered the best in college football. missou was one of the top teams last year. michael sam was one of missou s most valuable players. we re talking about s.e.c. defensive player of the year, michael sam. you know, as long as he s making plays, who cares if he likes boys or girls, you know? public response has also for the most part been overwhelmingly positive, president obama tweeting out congratulations on leading the way. that s real sportsman
first to talk about head injuries in this game as hard as you play, as hard as you hit. now we re coming around to it. do you think anything will get done? i think the way we play the game will be changed a little bit. it s all about trying to keep the head out of the game in terms of hitting and helmet-to-helmet hits and so forth. you can t really regulate. it s going to be up to the players to be trained not to use their heads in making plays. brian: you know what happened in belcher might be related. you know what happened to esau, shot himself in the chest. up until 1982, no 300 pounderrs in the nfl. now there are.
to be honest with you, i don t think that is the case. te o wasn t a heisman candidate really weak 7, week 8. this story broke very early on and the story of him pushing through and how he led the team to a victory over michigan state. to me it is not as big of an issue as becoming a heisman candidate. i think it was just, this year. notre dame was undefeated. he was a star linebacker. he was making plays. there was not a lot of other candidates out there until john any manziel stepped up late. just so happened this backstory was there. jon: didn t the backstory push the narrative, the heroics, perseverance line? you. know for me it didn t because to me it is a fact that here is notre dame, a storied program who had been essentially down in the dumps for many years. they were undefeated. they had this great season and they were led by a guy who could have gone pro last year but said he wanted to
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