media.

Sam wasn't a distraction in the locker room or on the field where its all about football.

The problems come off the field with 24 hour twitter based news cycle you got reporters fishing for stories so your whole organization has to walk on eggshells just in case a reporter throws a loaded question at them just get a scoop. Fair or not a lot of teams aren't going to deal with that for a marginal player.

You can blame the media but at the same time Michael Sam and his handlers have courted the media attention. There are 2 ways he could've approached it. He could've came in as football player that happens to be gay or came in as "The First Openly Gay NFL Player". From the carefully orchestrated draft day scene to reality tv deals with Oprah it was obvious what they were going for.

They did the TD celebration before crossing the goal line then got tackled at the 1 and time ran out.