Former NFL star Deion Sanders isn’t convinced that people are biologically gay. He’s not convinced that they choose to be gay either.
But that didn’t stop the hall of famer from discussing the topic of homosexuality and University of Missouri recruit Michael Sam during a recent interview with Larry King.
“I’m not saying I condone it, but I don’t condemn it,” Sanders told King. Then, referring to Sam, he added, “I don’t love what he do, but I love him as a man.”
King followed up and asked Sanders if he thought sexuality was a choice, specifically in Sam’s case.
“It could be,” Sanders explained. “The God I know don’t make mistakes.”
Sanders has said in previous interviews that he knows gay players are in the NFL. Earlier this year he told Arsenio Hall that there were gay players on each of the five different franchises he played for during his 14 years in the NFL.
Sam was the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team earlier this year. The St. Louis Rams held onto him for a few months, before dropping him. He eventually ended up on the Dallas Cowboys’ practice squad, but was released at the beginning of the NFL season.
Sam, the 2013 SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year and former All-American at the University of Missouri was initially selected by the St. Louis Rams with the 249th pick in the seventh round of the 2014 draft, but didn’t make the team’s 53-man roster or the 10-man practice squad.
