I know Commanders fans have been frustrated with their team lately, but apparently even their own execs hate their players... The Washington Commanders (which is still weird to say) have suspended Vice President of Content Rael Enteen after the team exec was caught on hidden camera bashing the team's players, fans, and even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. (I think we should give him a pass for that last one). The video from undercover journalist James O'Keefe's media company shows Enteen being recorded on what he apparently thought was a date, and accusing the majority of Commanders players of being "homophobic."
"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." I see why this guy's single if this is what he's talking about on his dates. 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 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. And this 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." The season hasn't even started yet and it looks like the Commanders are already a mess... https://twitter.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1831372191369212215
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