I did my fair share of trolling in this thread

so now I'll be a little serious
As someone who is also fed up with all the coverage this has gotten, I can understand why it's gotten so much attention ... the "first" of any type of person to accomplish a feat is always going to get attention, especially something that is not considered the norm.
At the same time, as many people have brought up in this thread, Jason Collins is a scrub. I'll care about an openly gay player coming out if he's a star instead of a marginal bench warmer. Magic Johnson coming out as HIV positive was a huge deal not just because of the disease, but because it was Magic Johnson.
That being said, those struggle highlights on ESPN were pretty stupid