Michael Sam at Combine Shows He Can Be Perfect Trailblazer and Prime-Time Player

February 22, 2014   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

INDIANAPOLIS—Are you a trailblazer, a reporter asked the man everyone was waiting to hear from?
"No," he said, "I feel like I'm Michael Sam."
In his interviews with NFL teams thus far, Sam said, none has asked about his sexual orientation.
One team executive who interviewed Sam said this: "As much football knowledge as any college prospect I've ever interviewed in decades in this business. As good a man as any prospect I've interviewed. After a few minutes, I was looking for things to knock, but I couldn't. After a while the interview felt like I was talking to a friend."
Said another team official: "He seemed too good to be true, so I kept trying to get find something that seemed off. There was nothing. This guy has no weakness in his character."
Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said he believes Sam will be a good teammate, and then Newsome explained that the media, and the attention it is paying to Sam, was the bigger problem. "What are yo...

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