# Top college football prospect \[Michael Sam\] comes out **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 10, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939 "2014-02-10T02:31:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939/303 "2015-05-22T22:50:00Z")
Eh, Peter King did the same, so it’s not so special. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939/304 "2015-05-23T15:27:12Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Holy cow. Called the team and everything. Bravo, sir. I would point out that this did not require any Kreskin-like abilities, as Montreal held Sam’s exclusive bargaining rights. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939/305 "2015-06-15T19:28:17Z")
A bit of a premature call - at this time there is less than “an 80% chance Sam will be starting for a CFL team within five years”. > [@](#): > > The story will die down eventually, with Sam being nothing more than a footnote in Als history — the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, signed by Montreal amid unusual fanfare, and then failing to last three weeks with the Canadian Football League club. > > Sam, a rush-end, has been put on the Als’ suspended list. While general manager Jim Popp says the door remains open for his return, another source within the organization virtually guaranteed the likelihood of that happening is non-existent. > **[Michael Sam 'wanted to go home, and that's what he did,' Alouettes GM says](https://montrealgazette.com/sports/football/cfl/montreal-alouettes/michael-sam-wanted-to-go-home-and-thats-what-he-did-says-alouettes-gm)** > > QUEBEC ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939/306 "2015-06-15T19:31:58Z")
He’s too unreliable to make it in professional sports. Quitting is a red flag that most GMs will not forget. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939/307 "2015-06-15T20:29:47Z")
He was always known as a disciplined hard worker. If I had to speculate, I would imagine it’s very hard for a guy who thought of himself as a genuine NFL-caliber guy to be struggling to make the team in the CFL. (Apparently he has CFL-level talent but was struggling to adjust to the different style of play.) In that circumstance it might not have taken a lot of send him over the edge in frustration. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939/308 "2015-06-15T20:57:11Z")
Possibly that, and possibly he’s had to deal with more of the predictable locker-room shit than he was prepared to, with possibly less support from the staff than he should have had. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939/309 "2015-08-07T23:07:22Z")
Sam has his first game tonight: Als against the RedBlacks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-college-football-prospect-michael-sam-comes-out/680939.md?page=15)