Sam isn't being a drama queen. Since his college teammates and coaches knew he was gay, the media snooping that was going on was about to out him. He just wanted the announcement to be on his terms and not something pieced together by a sports reporter. As for it not being an issue in this day and age, we might hope so, but in the highly testosterone fueled locker rooms of the NFL, a climate of 1950s machismo still prevails, according to a number of professional football players.