Sunday Bloody NYT Sunday: Special NFL Crams Michael Sam Down America's Throats Edition
You better believe that the St. Louis Rams drafting Michael Sam, the first openly gay football-flavored sportsball player, in the seventh round of the NFL draft, is one of the lead stories in today's New York Times. The Times does its usual dispassionate bit of reporting about it, but if you'd like to tear up a bit about the whole thing, go watch the video (ESPN had cameras at Sam's house) of Sam tearing up and hugging and kissing his boyfriend.
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know why the gay pulps, like the one illustrating this post, so often had at least one albino or whatever leering out? I mean, did people think gayness leeched pigment out of men or something? It's something I've always wondered
You know, I was really pulling for a MSU-UW final in the NC2A. Darn.
I guess we just have to go back to Packers-Lions.
When I was a little kid, back in the Pleistocene, my aunt and uncle owned a diner in Racine, and every Thanksgiving we would drive down from Milwaukee to have dinner and watch the Packers and the Lions on the teevee. As I recall, the Lions generally won (most of those games were in the '50s and early '60s). Then, in the later sixties, the host Lions started inviting other teams.
Occasionally, I think this marked the beginning of the decline of American civilization. (Normally, of course, I know it was Reagan).
Oh, and on the Lions' picks, excuse my fake weeping. You traded for Golden Tate, who is a jackass but also a decent WR, and you drafted Ebron and Van Noy?
Crimea river.