Jason Howerton at The Blaze passed along this nugget from the CBS New York website: sports radio host Craig Carton, whose show with Boomer Esiason airs on the CBS Sports Network on cable, laid into the NFL following Peter King’s report that the NFL lobbied teams to pick up openly gay defensive tackle Michael Sam after he was released by the St. Louis Rams. They couldn't stand the "nightmare scenario" of Sam not making a team.
Carton called out the league over the plea that Sam and others pushed that he should be given a chance on the football merits, not some sort of gay affirmative action program:
“Let me tell you something, it’s absolutely ridiculous. If the NFL was that worried about the ‘homophobic’ team owners or managers or players, that they would actually actively find a place for Michael Sam is — Listen, I understand it, but it’s wrong,” he said. “Out of regards if you’re gay or straight, it shouldn’t matter… If they went out of their way to find a place for Michael Sam and not for any other guy that got cut, then that’s wrong.”
Carton also said it further proves that the NFL suffers from “ridiculous sensitivity and insecurity to every freaking social issue going on in America.”
