The moral of this story: Find better topics of conversations for your dates. The NFL season hasn't even started yet, and the Washington Commanders have now officially fired Vice President of Content Rael Enteen, one day after initially suspending their executive for comments he made on that were
caught on hidden camera bashing the team's players, fans, and even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The video from undercover journalist James O'Keefe's media company showed Enteen being recorded on two separate occasions, while out on what he apparently thought was a date. During the conversation, Enteen accused the majority of Commanders players of being "homophobic" because they were either white and Christian, or came from poor black communities:
"Over 50% of our roster is either white religious, and God says 'F*ck the gays.'... Another big chunk is very low-income African American, that comes from a community that is inherently very homophobic." Enteen seemed to be talking about his team's participation in pride parades - but it wasn't just his players that Enteen disparaged:
"Most of the fans, I would say, are high school educated alcoholics." And when his "date" responded that they were "lower-class people," Enteen had a better way to describe them:
"I hate to use that term. I would just say mouth-breathers. I know that's way worse." The VP also took aim at the NFL itself, speaking about their social justice initiatives as "performative" efforts meant to improve the league's image and not aimed at actually effecting social change:
"It's not done out of the goodness of their heart morality... The social justice efforts are a performance for the sake of public perception and not because they want to actually push progress. I think it's to make as much money as possible... They don't need to actually pinch pennies because they make so much money. They can faux-prioritize DEI for the sake of good publicity." And he had some harsh criticism for Roger Goodell, calling him a "$50 million puppet" - even saying that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was the one who was actually running the NFL:
"I don't think the commissioner of the NFL hates gay people, hates black people. Jerry Jones for instance, who really runs the NFL, I think he hates gay people and black people." Well as you can imagine, the Commanders weren't happy about the comments - or at least about the fact that they were made public. Yesterday afternoon, the team announced that Enteen had been suspended:
"The language used in the video runs counter to our values at the Commanders organization. We have suspended the employee pending an internal investigation and will reserve further comment at this time." And today, he officially got the boot and was fired from the team. Enteen had been with the Commanders for four years, after spending two years with the New York Jets. Honestly, if that's the kind of stuff that he talks about on dates, it's not hard to see why he's single in the first place. https://twitter.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1831372191369212215
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