Only 1 admitted the truth: "Much, much less support" Here's one that perhaps you could explain to me, since I don't understand his point:


Most have agreed that we'd laugh at ku but show some support for the kid.

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No clue, but you noted that the responses were what you'd expect. Most of the responses were very positive, including some appreciation for how ku fans handled the situation (similar to what I've said here). I guess I don't get your point.

Showing how it's done
Mizzou students protected Michael Sam from seeing church protesters
Updated: February 18, 2014, 6:14 PM ET
By Rick Reilly | ESPN.com

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...ng-michael-sam

I love this latest generation of Americans, this Generation Y. Maybe when you're born with a computer in your hand, solutions come easy. They're givers, joiners and fixers. I wish I were one of them.

Nothing proves it more than what happened Saturday in Columbia, Mo.

It all started with the people I'd most like to see thrown into a wheat thresher -- the vile members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan.

These are the snakes who picket the funerals of U.S. soldiers, holding up their "God Hates bundle of stickss" signs as a sick protest against gays in the military. They're the scum who post things like, "Thank God for 10 more troop deaths. We're praying for 10,000 more." They're the soulless who threatened to picket the Sandy Hook funerals.

Westboro announced it was coming to Columbia to picket Michael Sam, the Tigers' star defensive end who recently told the world he was gay. He was scheduled to pick up Mizzou's Cotton Bowl trophy at halftime of Saturday's Missouri basketball game against Tennessee, along with his teammates.

"GOD H8S bundle of sticks FOOTBALL PLAYERS & THEIR ENABLERS," the Westboro yelled, in caps on its website, in announcing their plans to picket.

The idea inflamed the campus. "We were angry," says Sam's teammate, senior left guard Max Copeland. "We're football players. We're protective. That's our brother."

And it all just made you want to hurl -- until two Missouri coeds had an idea.

"We wanted to do something to stand up to the hate," sophomore Alix Carruth said.

"We're both Christians," sophomore Kelaney Lakers said. "We know that's not God. God is love."

Their idea: Make a human wall to block out Westboro, a huge line of solidarity between their classmate and the Westboro stench.

"A single line, arm-in-arm, a sign of One Mizzou," they wrote on Facebook. They called it #StandWithSam. And they made up 1,000 buttons to give out.

It wasn't nearly enough.

By 1:30 p.m. Saturday, along Stadium Boulevard, an estimated 2,000 people had come, forming a line that stretched almost half a mile long.

Imagine that: 2,000 people -- students, parents, kids, the elderly, the straight and the gay -- willing to stand in the freezing Missouri winter to support a young man most of them had never met.

"We turned our backs on [the WBC]," Copeland said. "That's how we stood -- a huge line with our backs to them. It was brilliant."

It was peaceful and powerful and ... fun? People wore homemade "Stand With Sam" shirts. Two girls wore sweatshirts that said, "My God Likes Tigers Of All Stripes." Drivers honked, held up fists and thumbs-up. There was a can-can line, a guy in a Wookie costume, and a guy in a full-body tiger suit.

"I was just so proud of them," Carruth said.

Across the street, the 14 Westboro protesters looked very small indeed.

Final score: Love 2,000, Hate 14.

Copeland texted Sam a picture of the line, with the caption: "You're very loved today, brother."

And what did Sam text back? "OMG!"

It got better. At halftime, he got a standing ovation, more hugs than One Direction, and even a request from Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon: "Could I get a picture with you?"

"Sam was just so moved," says a spokesman for Sam, who has asked out of interviews while he prepares for May's NFL draft, which will almost certainly make him the first openly gay active player in the league. "It was a huge day for him. A wonderful day. A life-changing day."

Sam tweeted:

Thank you for all of my Mizzou family for your support. Divided we are weak, Together we are Strong. #OneMizzou

"Sam seems so happy," says Copeland, "like a man who's cast off this huge weight."

So how do two devout Christians reconcile helping a man they consider a sinner? "Yes, practicing homsexuality is a sin," Lakers says. "But so is lying, so is cheating, so is coveting. I sin every day. God hates the sin, not the sinner. If God hated all the sinners, he'd hate me!"

What does it all mean? It means this sport is ready for this. At the start of the 2013 season, Sam told his 105 teammates he was gay, then went out and became the SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year and led his team to a 12-2 record. If a gay man ruins the camaraderie of a locker room, I shudder to think how good Missouri would've been.

It means this new generation is ready for this. It has found the way through. It's with respect and honor and love. Why didn't we think of that?

It means the NFL better be ready for this. ESPN just surveyed 51 NFL players and seven of them said a player's sexual orientation matters to them. They worry too much. "It's not weird [being in the locker room with him]," Copeland says. "His new teammates are going to find out that (1) he's a great person and (2) he gets the job done."

What happened in Missouri should sound very familiar to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. According to a Time magazine profile of Goodell in 2012, the commish would often form a one-man wall between bullies and his gay brother, Michael, when they were growing up.

"Roger is very much a hero figure for me," Michael Goodell told Time.

Now Goodell needs to build a much bigger wall in his NFL to stop the kind of gay-bashing, bullying and blackmail that went on in the Miami Dolphins' locker room last season. He needs to make a new league -- a safe and sane place to work -- and Michael Sam can be the symbol of that.

And to think it took two sophomore Christian women in a red state in the middle of the country to show us how easy it could be.

Thank you, Missouri. You showed us.

Well why don't you give it a whirl? What does it mean to make fun of KU but support the kid? I really don't know how those 2 statements go together. What's your theory?

I imagine there are some who perpetually laugh at ku. Again, I don't really know, but that would be my guess. I literally don't read Tigerboard. I did about ten years ago and it was full of mizzou versions of you.

You're still searching for a reason to turn this whole thing into a negative, huh? I fail to see how quoted material above, or ANYTHING on a "message board" makes you so up in arms or give you some sort of false confidence that you're making any relevant points?? Seriously...you should grow up.

If a player from KU did the same thing, I'd be blown the f@%k away if there was absolutely zero jokes or homophobic garbage written on the INTERNET from the MU side. Anybody, anywhere can write out something stupid online with zero repercussions. And it's a rivalry...what the hell do you expect? If a player from Oregon came out and said they were gay, I highly doubt the overall tone of Tigerboard (or anywhere else you want to search for dirt) would be much different than it is right now. It'd be a topic/story for a day or two with most being in support of said player. Not a 2 week topic like it is now since it's one of OUR players. But I think you're trying to make some grander point and cast a hypocrite net over Mizzou fans which just isn't justified and is frankly getting old.

You should really just give up on this one. It's only making you look petulant and bored.

I read it on occasion too. Not very interesting honestly. And I like to check out phog every once in awhile. But you're absolutely correct. The ratio of rational and sane posters to the PB/Bambi types on both those boards make them annoying and unattractive.

Why? I'm not the only one who realizes your hypocrisy on this. It's so blatant even your own fan asked about it. There are literally thousands of gay-themed KU posts on Tigerboard. Blowing this fact off as "normal rivalry smack" with zero connection to gay people is pure foolishness and you're smarter than that.

I admit, the way the MU team and university is handling the Sam story is very admirable. I'd like to think KU would handle it similarly, but, recently, forward thinking and Kansas don't go together.

You calling MIZZOU fans Hypocrites LMAOLMAO
What about all the KU fans calling Mizzou fans, Slavers..Like they had anything to do with what happened over 200 years ago.
What about all the KU fans calling Mizzou fans, MUorns..Like the people in the state of Missouri are any dumber than the people in the state of Kansas..show me proof of this.
The reasons fans use such words, is because it rolls off the tongue so easily..it's just words that people use against their rivals or other teams.

I agree with this. I don't use the comment because it's not accurate, and in fact the "Missouri Tigers" were a regiment created to keep pro-Union Columbia safe. Confined strictly to the context of Columbia and Lawrence there is no valid basis for the comments. Quantrill of course is a different matter entirely.


See how easy that is? Now stop the bullshitting about there being no legitimate anti-gay connotations towards KU over the years.

Was this ever really a conference realignment thread? Do you need the pretense to get your Border War jollies off?

WOW..You so screwed up, you can even think staight.

I and lots of other people, do not have a problem with Gays or whatever term you want to use. 20 years ago, I did have a problem with people with that lifestyle, but not anymore.

Have you ever heard of the saying "People can change"?
Just because I've changed my views on that lifestyle, does not mean I'm going to stop bashing KU(GAYU) at anytime..it's part of the rivalry.

Quit being a dumb****. It's a childish chide that rhymes with KU.

File this under stupid shit the NCAA does, and another example of how they are ****ing useless and clueless:

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...too-much-pasta