NFL player Michael Sam named GQ Man of the Year

• The first openly gay player in the NFL? When you take a good long look at the path Michael Sam took to get here—the sleepless nights in the backseat of his mother's car, the routine beat-downs from his outlaw brothers, the fact that his own father barely accepts who he is—coming out seems like the easy part. 

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