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05-12-2014, 12:29 AM
Sure, Michael Sam Got Drafted — But **w the Real Test Begins
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After Michael Sam (http://mashable.com/2014/05/10/michael-sam-nfl-draft/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) got drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of Saturday's NFL Draft — making him league's first openly gay draftee in its 94-year history — congratulations and adulations poured in from all corners of the Internet. Rams brass insisted (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/lupica-michael-sam-wasn-drafted-openly-gay-article-1.1787824) they simply "drafted a good football player," with ** mind toward his ***ual orientation. U.S. President Barack Obama released a statement (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-congratulates-first-openly-gay-nfl-draftee) commending Sam's trailblazing status
An important, feel-good moment, to be sure. But **w the draft is over, and the real test begins — for Sam, for the NFL (http://mashable.com/category/nfl/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and for an American society that's still **t entirely in tune with the progress gay rights have made over the past several years Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/michael-sam-drafted-**w-what/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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After Michael Sam (http://mashable.com/2014/05/10/michael-sam-nfl-draft/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) got drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of Saturday's NFL Draft — making him league's first openly gay draftee in its 94-year history — congratulations and adulations poured in from all corners of the Internet. Rams brass insisted (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/lupica-michael-sam-wasn-drafted-openly-gay-article-1.1787824) they simply "drafted a good football player," with ** mind toward his ***ual orientation. U.S. President Barack Obama released a statement (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-congratulates-first-openly-gay-nfl-draftee) commending Sam's trailblazing status
An important, feel-good moment, to be sure. But **w the draft is over, and the real test begins — for Sam, for the NFL (http://mashable.com/category/nfl/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and for an American society that's still **t entirely in tune with the progress gay rights have made over the past several years Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/michael-sam-drafted-**w-what/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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