Not Surprisingly the Rams cut Michael Sam and what we do about it

The St. Louis Rams has made some cuts and announced its 53 member roster which did not include Michael Sam, the first openly gay football player drafted into the NFL.

The Rams head coach had this to say:

"I will tell you this, I was pulling for Sam, I really was," Rams coach Jeff Fisher said. "And I don't say that very often. Mike came in here and did everything we asked him to do." He added, "It was a football decision, and the decision is no different than any other decision we make. It was a football decision. It was a football decision back in May to draft Mike."

Coach might be trying to act all nice about it, and I don't blame him for trying, but lets get real here. We had football heads (almost all of whom were heteros) raving how Michael Sam was an all American cowboy who is 100% NFL material when he was playing college football. Then all of a sudden he makes national headlines for declaring he was indeed a homo and then we see that many football heads were now reading a prepared script on how much Sam sucked (as in football, get your mind out of the gutter!) and that his numbers weren't good, and that he wasn't NFL material after all blah blah.

So Sam was only able to make it to the 7th round in the NFL draft and was picked last. The Rams, for some still unexplained reason, picked Sam for its defensive lineup knowing full well they didn't need anybody in that position. It appears that he was drafted as though the team "had to do it" in the name of political correctness to avoid rightful accusations of homophobia and not because he was and is a good football player. All the other teams passed on Sam. Their reason: we don't want this distraction. And I think by 'distraction' they meant the homo type of distraction. Because all other distractions are indeed condoned and overlooked by the NFL, such as wife-beating, drug dealing, animal cruelty, stealing, and all other forms of depravity that I think are celebrated by what I now call the immature hyper-masculine boy mentality we find in football culture.

And they can blame the media all they want, but I don't buy the media excuse for one damn second. The media reports on every little thing football stars do. When a player gets into trouble with the law or is caught being cruel to innocent dogs for financial gain we never, ever, hear the football junkies yelling and complaining about "distractions" or raging at the media. Only when a bothersome fag like Michael Sam who dared to kiss his boyfriend in front of a camera can these immature pricks start bitching about "distractions" and whatnot and come up with conspiracy theories about the media. Only then do we see such childish antics.

All in all this whole experience was pretty strange to me. We keep seeing football maniacs engage in double speak and basically ram down our throats their insistent propaganda that they and the football culture are not homophobic.I would say, as to sound cliche but pardon me: thou protest too much asshole. We see what can be a very negative reaction to Michael Sam being gay and under the same breath these bigots claim that he being a homo has nothing to do with their obvious rage. Its like asking dad why he is so angry and he replies "I'm not fucking angry!" as he punches a hole in the wall. I simply do not buy their bullshit.

I for one am fine with not having any gays in the NFL. The NFL, and its fan culture, is a bastion of immature little boys who refuse to grow up into adults. Homosexuality, like all other issues, are adult topics that can only, and should only, be discussed by adults and not by petulant little pubescent choir boys who stick their head in the sand and put their fingers in their ears as they chant "lalalalalala." Homosexuality demands an adult discussion not immature whining and finger pointing at the media. And because an adult discussion cannot happen in this culture we must come to the conclusion that the NFL, and football in general, is not ready, nor mature and capable, of handling such issue. One adult football player, Chris Kluwe, had to learn the hard way, as he tried to survive in a culture that is repelled by maturity and education.

So I am okay with Michael Sam not being in the NFL (understandably Sam might think otherwise) because to me this whole bit of "You Can Play" sounds one-off and I for one do not feel any excitement over it. Of course gays can play football as well as other sports. Any schmuck can. The important thing is do we need to play? And the answer, supported by the evidence of football's repulsion against homosexuality, is an outstanding negative.

No, we do not need to play this sport, and probably other sports as well. I would like to recite a famous Groucho Marx (no, not Mark Levin, the actual funny one I mean) motto: 'I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member.' Not because we gays are not good, but because we are too good for pro-football. We need to examine if football culture's annoying pubescent immature rejection of homosexuality is even worth it. Think of it this way: Michael Sam trying to play for the NFL is like having your roommate trying to play at a McDonald's play pin with all the little kids only to have the manager kick him out.

It appears that the sport where a lot of men end up with severe brain injuries and criminal records is refusing to grow up into the 21st century. And so we come at a cross-roads. Is our equality depended on admission to the NFL? Let me answer that with this question to better understand what is at stake here: Is your ability in having a good time depended on admission to a McDonald's play pin? If it is you have serious issues at the Michael Jackson level.

And so we homos have to see the writing on the wall. We are not wanted here, and for a good reason (for us at least). We do not need to jump into the play pin and be humiliated by childish little pricks every five seconds. We don't need that because there so many other worth wild things we homos are damn good at and where our professional expertise is much more wanted and needed in real things that matter in the real world. And because football refuses to grow up it and other child-like immature institutions, like the Boy Scouts for example, are going to be left behind as the rest of society matures into adulthood and they will in time wither away with the rest of the archaic institutions that all they do is venerate the dominance of the old white-heterosexual boys club as we dump them in the rightful dustbin of forgotten history.