Rams Made Deal To Draft Sam?

Veteran NFL reporter Howard Balzer claimed Wednesday that the Los Angeles Rams struck a deal with the NFL in 2014 to avoid being featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” show if the team drafted Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to enter the draft.

Balzer later published an article on 590 The Fan in which he defended his claims and delved deeper into the story surrounding the then St. Louis Rams’ drafting of Sam.
“At the time, the Rams were hailed for being progressive and drafting the first openly gay player in the National Football League,” Balzer wrote. “It turns out, according to multiple sources, that the league agreed not to ask the Rams to appear that year on HBO’s yearly summer series, HARD KNOCKS, if they drafted Sam.”
“The SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year in 2013, Sam was considered a fifth-round pick at best. But, as the draft proceeded on the final day, it appeared he might not be drafted at all,” Balzer continued. “It is believed the NFL didn’t want to face questions about that eventuality … So it was that the Rams saved the day, selecting Sam with the 249th pick of a 256-player draft.”
The NFL has since revealed that the now Los Angeles-based Rams will be featured this summer on the “Hard Knocks” show.
Sam himself responded to Balzer’s initial tweet, saying that this information did not surprise him “at all.”
Shortly after his draft in 2014, Sam was cut by the Rams before the beginning of the 2014 regular season,WCBS-TV. The Dallas Cowboys then signed him onto its practice squad, where he lasted for only seven weeks. Although Sam said this January that he will give the NFL “one more shot,” he stated in November that he wished he hadn’t been drafted by the Rams.
“If I had my way, I really do wish I went undrafted,” Sam said, according to WCBS. “I could have actually went to a team who really needed pass rush, and needed a defensive end who could pass rush the quarterback. But the Rams, even though I learned a log from Chris Long and [Robert] Quinn, I think that I could have done better being on an active roster right now if I went to a different team.”
Although Sam signed a deal with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 2015, he only played one game with the team before he left for mental health reasons.

Source:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...am-was-reportedly-part-of-this-deal-with-nfl/

This won't end well.

He thinks he'd be starting right now if someone other than the Rams drafted him.

That's what I took out of it, too. Still scapegoating everyone and everything else. Still won't admit he's just not very good.

A lot of us speculated this was the case, that the league used its influence and relationship on Fisher to force them to draft the guy for publicity.

He was never worth drafting and isn't a good player., But I do believe the league bullied somebody into picking him to make them look good to the LGBT crowd. That whole post announcement crap with the kissing was all part of the act too.

dbair1967 said:

A lot of us speculated this was the case, that the league used its influence and relationship on Fisher to force them to draft the guy for publicity.

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I immediately suspected the NFL put pressure on teams as the draft winded down, but I had no idea that a deal was brokered. Another sad reminder how left-wing the league has become.

bbgun said:

I immediately suspected the NFL put pressure on teams as the draft winded down, but I had no idea that a deal was brokered. Another sad reminder how left-wing the league has become.

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Yep. And ESPN played that kissing scene over, and over, and over and over

Goodell: "We're gonna saddle you with Hard Knocks, we know nobody wants it but it's your turn. But if you'll draft the fag, we can delay it for a coupla years."

Fisher chimes in:

“That in itself is absolutely absurd, it’s 100 percent incorrect,” Fisher said. “I was really taken aback by those comments. It’s insulting, from my standpoint, as it relates to Michael. We had three seventh-round picks. When we drafted Michael he was the best player on the board. Who in their right mind would think that you give up a draft choice to avoid doing something like that?”

“Our draft room is our draft room. It’s intimate. Nobody’s gonna have any kind of influence on us whatsoever. We’re gonna do what we think is in the best interest of the organization, and at that point Michael was the best guy on our board. … There was nothing then and there’s nothing now, and I’m just really taken back by the reports that we drafted him hoping that we were not going to be on ‘Hard Knocks.’ No professional in our business would give up a draft choice with that intention. That’s bad football and that was never discussed. It’s incorrect.”

Like he was going to admit it.

Its 100% fucking true, I have little doubt.