ESPN reports on Michael Sam's shower schedule.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

http://deadspin.com/espn-reports-on-who-is-and-isnt-showering-with-michael-1626967870/all

This morning's episode of SportsCenter briefly checked in with reporter Josina Anderson, who is on the scene at Rams training camp. She was asked to talk about how Michael Sam is fitting in with his new teammates, and Anderson went ahead and told us about how Sam's showering habits.

Another Rams defensive player told me that "Sam is respecting our space" and that, from his perspective, he seems to think that Michael Sam is kind of waiting to take a shower, as not to make his teammates feel uncomfortable.

Anderson goes on to tell us that she asked defensive tackle Kendall Langford and linebacker Alec Ogletree about Sam's showering schedule, and they told her that they weren't tracking it.

So, there you go. Now we've got the inside scoop on how things are going for Michael Sam and his teammates in the shower. Thanks, SportsCenter.

[get the red out]

1. Oh weird

I thought this HAD TO BE the Onion, but it's not.

[pinto]

2. Oy.

[underpants]

3. I guess every gets to use the same water fountain

Can you tell about your teammate's shower habits ?

[underpants]

4. Tomorrow, does Michael Sam have plans to re-decorate?

[tblue37]

5. In the underrated and ineffectively titled movie

42, about Jackie Robinson, there is a scene when a friendly teammate encourages Robinson to go a head and shower with the rest of them, because Robinson had been carefully "giving them their 'space' " because he knew how uncomfortable most of them were.

I hope the idiots who feel they need such "space" get over their stupidity soon.

[valerief]

6. I don't know anything about Sports and couldn't understand what was "wrong" with

Sam (don't even know who he is). It took several minutes. I wondered if Sam had a huge penis and that might make his teammates uncomfortable. Maybe some other physical variation. Then it hit me. I'll bet Sam is gay. But even that doesn't really make sense, because his teammates must know there are tons of gay athletes already and always have been.

What is Sam's oddity?

Or is the problem a media invention?

[cyberswede]

7. "How come you never shower till everybody else is done?"

Are we at least making progress? Sometimes I wonder.

[Scuba]

8. They must not have seen "42".

That showering thing was resolved in 1947.

[dhill926]

9. what are they…12?

[rjj621]

10. Why is this news?

Why is it even being reported? Is this really a sports story or TMZ? Sam chooses to wait.... end of story. No need for people to read anything into it.

[theHandpuppet]

11. Disgusting

There should be enough shame in that ESPN report for a full measure all around.

[monmouth3]

12. They have nothing to worry about, he wouldn't look at any of them twice...IMO...n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. There's no issue it seems, it's the fucking media.

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/teammate-defends-michael-sam-after-espn-s--shower--report-200421626.html

But there's a larger issue here. For years, people who claim to know NFL culture have said that the locker room wouldn't accept a gay man. But within hours after the report aired, Rams teammate Chris Long shattered that myth with one eight-word tweet:

Dear ESPN, Everyone but you is over it.

https://twitter.com/JOEL9ONE/status/504346186644348928

[monmouth3]

14. It was as if a 12 year-old wrote it. Too stupid..n/t

[R.Quinn]

15. Die-hard Rams fan here

This tweet from Chris Long made me smile. Such a great teammate.

ESPN should be ashamed of themselves for calling this "reporting". Seriously.