Michael Sam played in AT&T Stadium – the home of the Dallas Cowboys – once before, just earlier this year in the Cotton Bowl against Oklahoma State. His Missouri Tigers won the game thanks to an incredible strip-sack late in the fourth quarter by none other than Sam.
You can watch every one of Sam's plays in that game in the video above, or skip ahead to 7:27 to see the game-clinching play.
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