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 referred to 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 keeping with a social media video from the media group, Enteen had met the reporter on the courting app Hinge and met together with her twice at native eating places. In keeping 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 an announcement. “We have now suspended the worker pending an investigation and can reserve additional remark at the moment.”
He instructed 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 Individuals that comes from a group that’s inherently very homophobic.”
On the video, Enteen additionally mentioned some gamers are “dumb as hell” and mentioned some who had been good don’t remain that approach after getting hit within the head too many instances. He additionally mentioned those that “get their heads knocked round a couple of instances” are extra prone 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 feel 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, referred to as the league’s social justice initiatives “performative.”
“It is not achieved out of the goodness of their coronary heart,” he mentioned. “It is achieved as a result of George Floyd modified the sport … It is to make as a lot cash as doable. The NFL cares in regards to the backside line, like several company, above all else.”
Enteen mentioned as a result of the league makes a lot cash, “they will fake prioritize DEI for the sake of fine publicity.”
Enteen instructed the undercover reporter that “a lot of the followers are high-school-educated alcoholics” and referred to as them “mouth breathers.”
Enteen additionally instructed 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.”
