This is an excellent point that Clark brings up.
Especially in light of the Jonathan Martin situation will NFL players be walking around eggshells with Michael Sam? If someone makes fun of Michael Sam’s boyfriend like they would make fun of a teammates girlfriend will he run to NFLPA?
Here is what Clark had to say on Sportscenter via PFT.com
“You want to know how you can behave around this person,” Clark said. “Anyone who has been in a football locker room knows that there’s a lot of jokes, a lot of ribbing. We’ll talk about anything. If a guy is fat. If a guy is ugly. If a guy’s significant other is not attractive. These are things you josh each other about and you talk with each other about. In what ways can you talk to him? In what ways can you involve him in your conversations? What are the things you can do and say around him that won’t make him uncomfortable? That won’t make him feel that he’s being ostracized? Or that won’t make him feel like he’s being harassed or quote, unquote bullied?”
Only Sam can answer that question and how he handles it may determined how he is accepted in the locker room.