6 Reasons Last Night's WWE Raw Made You Change The Channel

1. Michael Sam Invited To Raw

The most painful thing to watch Monday night was the desperate ploy by WWE to preemptively grab NFL fans and turn them away from Monday Night Football next week to Monday Night Raw. They tried this by announcing they were inviting recently cut St. Louis Rams defensive end Michael Sam to appear on Raw. If you don€™t know who Sam is, he is the first openly gay football player to be signed to an NFL team. He was drafted out of college earlier this year, and the media have been following every aspect of his efforts to make the Rams throughout the preseason. Sam was cut last week amid the final round of cuts before the regular season starts later this week, and he is trying to latch on with another team. Sam certainly won€™t be the first gay NFL player €“ others have come out after they retired, and others are likely still keeping their orientation private €“ but his openness has made him a high-profile athlete. What makes WWE€™s ploy so desperate €“ and borderline despicable €“ is that they invited him to Raw not because they want Michael Sam to discuss his plight as part of their B.A. STAR campaign, but because they want to pop a rating. They plugged the fact they had invited Sam to Raw numerous times throughout the program, basically trying to drum up ratings for next week with a €œWill Michael Sam show up?€ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsEg2p78oBI Keep in mind that this young man has had his whole life put under a microscope during the past year, and his dream of playing in the NFL just got sidetracked a few days ago. And now Vince McMahon and WWE wants to cash in on his situation. You have to ask, would they have made the same offer if the Rams had kept Sam on the roster? Of course not.