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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): The professor football player draft isn’t until May, but the news today about one potential prospect has meaning that promises to go far wider in the league and in professional sports.
MICHAEL SAM, NFL prospect: I came to tell the world that I’m an openly, proud gay man.
JUDY WOODRUFF: University of Missouri football star Michael Sam broke the news Sunday night in interviews with ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” The New York Times, and Outsports.
MICHAEL SAM: It is a load off my chest. I told my teammates this past August that — I came out to my teammates. And they took it great. They rallied around me.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The All American defensive end now stands to become the National Football League’s first openly gay active player after the draft takes place in May. Sam says he hopes his sexual orientation will be a nonissue.
MICHAEL SAM: It shouldn’t matter.
If I can — if I work hard, if I make plays, that is all that should matter. Can they — can he help us win games? Is he a team play ever? That’s all that should matter.
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