Wonder what fukkery will come out of this
It was announced Wednesday that the Los Angeles
Rams would be the team
featured on "Hard Knocks" this season. But one report suggests the franchise made a deal with the league to avoid being the team featured on the show in 2014.
Longtime NFL reporter Howard Balzer,
in a report for 590 The Fan in St. Louis, writes that the NFL allowed the Rams -- then based in St Louis -- to avoid the HBO series because they agreed to draft
Michael Sam.
Sam, of course, announced he was gay prior to the 2014 draft, creating a flurry of speculation about if/when he would be drafted. As the reigning SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, Sam was considered a late-round talent. Balzer reports the NFL didn't want Sam to go undrafted, so it made a deal with the Rams, who selected him in the seventh round (249th overall). The Rams were just 90 miles down the road from the University of Missouri, where Sam played in college.
Balzer notes that Rams head coach Jeff Fisher was opposed to having his team featured on "Hard Knocks" in 2014, making it odd that he would embrace the opportunity just two years later.
Fisher addressed the situation on ESPN's "Mike and Mike" on Thursday. Here's part of that conversation,
via Pro Football Talk:
“That in itself is absolutely absurd, it’s 100 percent incorrect,” Fisher said. “I was really taken aback by those comments. It’s insulting, from my standpoint, as it relates to Michael. We had three seventh-round picks. When we drafted Michael he was the best player on the board. Who in their right mind would think that you give up a draft choice to avoid doing something like that?”
Sam was cut by the Rams before the start of the 2014 regular season and then joined the
Cowboys' practice squad. After being released by Dallas, he signed with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League but played in only one game before leaving the team.
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" like he's mad about it. 
) on his draft night...his winning the sec defensive co title only gave them more wood for the fire...I guarantee there is some lgbt group he aligned with in college that helped him considerably ...from meeting other gays at the university in power positions, government positions. boosters and finally local and national media...an award doesn't guarantee u a spot on an NFL squad because the NFL is a business....but Sam made it because he brought a "message"...and the agenda wanted that message shown and the NFL wanted to have an example of being gay friendly...without really being gay friendly, like "well we gave em' a shot
...even let him kiss his boyfriend on our draft show, get off our backs
"...when the NFL is having to pull these kinds of stunts to satisfy a group or body...that is an agenda, an agenda for the gays to integrate more openly into mainstream society (what better way than the NFL) and for the NFL to never have to go heads up with the lgbt movement by making a move to come off superficially embracing. The NFL probably intended on using Sam as soon as they heard he could possibly make it.
