All posts tagged "Michael Sam"

On the season finale of Saturday Night Live, the show reunited the kissing Vogelcheck family in order to demonstrate the absurdity of the national response to ESPN airing Michel Sam kissing his boyfriend after he was drafted.

Well, this is fun.

On Monday night, Stephen Colbert took on the topic of sexual orientation and professional sports, saying that there's a time and place for everything, and that the only place for discussing a player's sexuality is in court documents and arrest reports.

Conservative billionaire Donald Trump said on Monday that he had been shocked to see Michael Sam's reaction when he was chosen in the NFL draft because kissing his gay boyfriend in public had been "pretty out there."

Michael Sam, the University of Missouri football player who came out as a gay man on ESPN in February, became the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team when the St. Louis Rams took him with the 249th section in the NFL draft today.

Conservative columnist Steve Deace descended into self-parody by complaining that the Obama administration had somehow used the first openly gay NFL prospect to distract from Benghazi.