{"id":10210,"date":"2014-05-10T19:46:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2014-05-10T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T23:46:30","slug":"st-louis-rams-select-michael-sam-in-7th-round-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/10\/st-louis-rams-select-michael-sam-in-7th-round-video\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Rams select Michael Sam in 7th round (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10211\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelsam.jpg\" alt=\"michaelsam\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelsam.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelsam-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelsam-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Sam has become the first openly player drafted when the St. Louis Rams took him in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL Draft on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sam announced his sexual orientation leading up to the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. In 2013 he was selected as the SEC Defensive Player of the Year for his efforts at the University of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to the St. Louis Rams and the whole city of St. Louis. I&#8217;m using every [ounce] of this to achieve greatness!!&#8221; Sam wrote on Twitter shortly after the draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Thank you to the St. Louis Rams and the whole city of St. Louis. I&#8217;m using every once of this to achieve greatness!! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/QESdOJVzsw\">pic.twitter.com\/QESdOJVzsw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Sam (@MikeSamFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSamFootball\/statuses\/465269464477356033\">May 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sam could be seen kissing his boyfriend on screen once his name had been drafted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nW-_fFdkegs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rams coach Jeff Fisher said that the Rams were focused on what Sam could bring to their team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any concern whatsoever,\u201d Fisher said. \u201cWe drafted a good football player, and I\u2019m excited to get him on the practice field and get him going. It\u2019s going to be a little extra attention for a couple days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sam has become the first openly player drafted when the St. Louis Rams took him in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL Draft on Saturday. Sam announced his sexual orientation leading up to the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. In 2013 he was selected as the SEC Defensive Player of the Year for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,739,216,173],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-michael-sam","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-st-louis-rams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10212,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions\/10212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}