ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders have suspended an worker who made feedback in regards to the group’s gamers being anti-gay, accused Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones of being racist and anti-gay and known as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”
The group mentioned it has suspended its vice chairman of content material, Rael Enteen, who has been with the group for 4 years, for feedback he made to an undercover reporter for the O’Keefe Media Group.
In accordance with a social media video from the media group, Enteen had met the reporter on the relationship app Hinge and met along with her twice at native eating places. In accordance with James Keefe, the CEO of the O’Keefe Media Group, the interviews came about at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., in June.
“The language used within the video runs counter to our values on the Commanders group,” a group spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “We have now suspended the worker pending an investigation and can reserve additional remark right now.”
He advised the undercover reporter that, “over 50% of our roster is white non secular, and God says, ‘F— the gays.’ Their interpretation. I do not purchase any of that. One other large chunk is low-income African People that comes from a neighborhood that’s inherently very homophobic.”
On the video, Enteen additionally mentioned some gamers are “dumb as hell” and mentioned some who had been sensible don’t remain that method after getting hit within the head too many instances. He additionally mentioned those that “get their heads knocked round a number of instances” are extra vulnerable to conspiracy theories.
Enteen additionally mentioned, “I do not assume the commissioner of the NFL hates homosexual individuals, hates black individuals. Jerry Jones, who actually runs the NFL, I believe he hates homosexual individuals, black individuals.”
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Enteen, who was with the New York Jets for 2 years earlier than coming to Washington, known as the league’s social justice initiatives “performative.”
“It isn’t carried out out of the goodness of their coronary heart,” he mentioned. “It is carried out as a result of George Floyd modified the sport … It is to make as a lot cash as attainable. The NFL cares in regards to the backside line, like every company, above all else.”
Enteen mentioned as a result of the league makes a lot cash, “they’ll fake prioritize DEI for the sake of fine publicity.”
Enteen advised the undercover reporter that “many of the followers are high-school-educated alcoholics” and known as them “mouth breathers.”
Enteen additionally advised the reporter, whose title was not revealed and who can solely be heard on the video, that his job is to promote hope. Three years in the past, there have been movies of pipes leaking. Followers mentioned it smelled like sewage, however Enteen mentioned he tweeted out that it was simply water.
“That,” he mentioned, “is state-run media.”