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Michael Sam Says He Didn’t Really Want To Reveal His Gayness To The Public

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Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay player, would have preferred not to come out the way he did before the NFL draft last year.

“If I had it my way, I never would have done it the way I did, never would have told it the way I did,” says Sam, a former all-star at the University of Missouri, in GQ’s latest issue.

‘“I would have done the same thing I did at Mizzou — which was to tell my team and my coaches and leave it at that. But the recruiters knew, and reporters knew, and they talked to each other, and it got out. If I didn’t have the year I did, nobody would have cared. But I have no regrets. Some people can argue that I had the potential to go higher in the draft. But I think everything happens for a reason.”’

Sam says playing while gay wasn’t the most challenging hardship he’s had to overcome — he’s claimed his brothers abused him as a child and his father abandoned the family when he was young. (His dad denied it.)

Two of his brothers are in jail, and one has been missing for years. Sam was drafted but later cut by the St. Louis Rams and later picked up by the Dallas Cowboys.

The Cowboys let him go after seven weeks on the practice squad. Sam said of the experience:

‘“In St. Louis, they welcomed me, but I felt they were just putting smiles on their faces. It was because they didn’t know my future. It was almost like the situation with a stray dog — you don’t want to get too close. In Dallas, they were more welcoming.”’

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