Michael Sam’s Dad: ‘I Don’t Want My Grandkids Raised In That Kind Of Environment’

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Football player Michael Sam who has came out just months before the NFL draft, did not receive the support he probably hoped for from his father.

Sam is likely to become the first open-gay NFL draft pick. He told his father he’s gay via a text message. His dad was having breakfast at a Denny’s in their hometown of Hitchcock, Texas.

“I couldn’t eat no more, so I went to Applebee’s to have drinks,” Michael Sam, Sr. told the New York Times. “I don’t want my grandkids raised in that kind of environment. “I’m old school,” he says. “I’m a man-and-a-woman type of guy.”

I feel sorry that his kids had to grow up in HIS environment.

The Times writes that Sam Sr. is so “old school” that to prove it, “he pointed out that he had taken an older son to Mexico to lose his virginity.”

And while he hopes Michael Sam, Jr. gets into the NFL, “he expressed discomfort at the very idea of a gay N.F.L. player, even if the player was his son.”

He grumbled that Deacon Jones, the Hall of Fame defensive end renowned for his toughness, “is turning over in his grave.”

I have no tolerance in 2014 for ignorant pathetic bigots like this. What a small man.

Regardless, Michael Sam, Jr. is proud of his family, despite their tremendous challenges and adversity.

via Michael Sam’s Dad: ‘I Don’t Want My Grandkids Raised In That Kind Of Environment’ | The New Civil Rights Movement.

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