When Michael Sam became the first openly gay football player drafted into the NFL in 2014, he celebrated with a “kiss heard round the world” that was nationally televised on draft night.

Retired NFL running back Derrick Ward also tweeted his displeasure with the televised kiss: “I’m sorry but that Michael Sam is no bueno for doing that on national tv. I’m fine with it being ...

Prove me wrong. #nfl,” Patrick Dollard tweeted. “It’s annoying that people can’t say anything about the Michael Sam kiss without people pointing at them saying “homophobe,” Robby ...

a jubilant kiss. “ESPN .?.?. You serious right now?” quarterback Case McCoy of the University of Texas tweeted on Saturday. “I’m sorry but that Michael Sam is no bueno for doing that on ...

That Michael Sam got drafted was significant ... if the St. Louis Rams hadn’t taken him in the seventh round. The kiss? That was the history. That was the moment that will live on, the image ...

No, he tweeted "OMG" over a kiss. And there was more bigotry over Sam's show of affection with his boyfriend. Mississippi basketball player Marshall Henderson tweeted: Then he doubled down ...

Openly gay college football player Michael Sam was drafted by the NFL's St. Louis ... "I don't think gay people should play pro sports." But that kiss, aired by ESPN and the NFL Network, was ...

There has been much ado in the last week concerning Michael Sam, National Football League seventh round draft pick. Interestingly, the subjects of conversation have ranged from Michael Sam being I ...

But when a sobbing Michael Sam celebrated his selection by the St. Louis Rams by hugging and kissing his partner, another man, it made real and physical that an openly gay athlete had taken an ...

(Joe Robbins/Getty Images) Five days ago, former Giants running back Derrick Ward took to Twitter to say it was "disgusting" to see Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend on television after Rams ...

Several other kisses were reportedly edited out ... But last week when black National Football League draftee Michael Sam kissed white Vito Cammisano, not a word passed through anyone’s lips ...