Quick Hits 8/27 #1: Michael Sam Story Update -- Fisher is PISSED!!!!

• As I thought to myself yesterday, Jeff Fisher is NOT happy with ESPN right now.

Read this Yahoo! article.  It all but is saying Fisher believes, as I do, that ESPN is trying to manufacture the distraction which is going to get Michael Sam cut.

• Fisher:  ""I'm disappointed for Mike," Fisher told the Post-Dispatch. "I'm disappointed for the players who she put in this position, and mostly I'm disappointed for her because she felt what she was doing was right, and it wasn't right.""
• ESPN has given the proverbial "statement of regret"...

... to which I say BULLSHIT.

ESPN is trying to get Michael Sam cut so it can keep the NFL as a different interpretation of the three letters.

And I apologize to anyone, straight away, who is offended by that.

But this is what it is:  Michael Sam has exceeded expectations on the field, and caused nothing off of it.  So now, ESPN, probably at the direction of at least bigoted corporate sponsors of the NFL (if not Goodell himself) is trying to create enough of a stink to get Sam cut, hook or crook.

I also found out yesterday that, this year, the practice squad is being increased from six players to ten, so there is zero way, barring serious injury or incident this weekend, that Michael Sam is not going to be with the Rams in some capacity unless homophobia enters the fray.

Period.