“I couldn’t eat no more, so I went to Applebee’s to have drinks. I don’t want my grandkids raised in that kind of environment. I’m old school. I’m a man-and-a-woman type of guy.” Before Michael Sam came out to the NFL and the public at large, that was the response he got from his own dad.

+ So far, NFL players haven’t made any negative public comments about Sam. But a couple of players from the Canadian Football League couldn’t resist. Of course, one of them misspelled the word gay.