COMMENTARY
Maybe this shouldn’t be told, but I’ll tell it anyway. In 2014, when I was mostly writing on the Boston.com side of the yard, an executive type who long since has moved on requested that I write a column on a very specific subject: That the Patriots should sign Michael Sam, a star defensive lineman from the University of Missouri who was openly gay. Not for football reasons, he said, but because Boston was an open-minded place that would happily welcome him.
Couldn’t do it.
Boston was the perfect fit for an openly gay player?