re: This whole Michael Sam gay-out could be a well crafted marketing ploy.

Did you mean watched?

I'm not trolling. I just can see a scenario where the timing is on purpose.

Perhaps it's not, but taking away the silliness of some of my original language (I don't like be super serious about most matters), can you not get a picture of the possibility that the timing was deliberate and had a specific purpose.

I can see where I could be totally wrong and that's fine too. I've been wrong once before.