The Washington Commanders fired their vice president of content Thursday, one day after his disparaging remarks about the team’s players and others became public.
The Commanders had suspended Rael Enteen on Wednesday for comments he made to an undercover reporter for the O’Keefe Media Group.
Enteen said that Washington’s players were homophobic, accused Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being a racist and called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”
“The language used in the video runs counter to our values at the Commanders organization,” a team spokesperson said Wednesday.
According to the O’Keefe Media Group, Enteen met with one of their reporters on a dating app and also twice at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., in June.
Enteen told the reporter that “over 50 percent of our roster is white religious, and God says, ‘F— the gays.’ Their interpretation. I don’t buy any of that. Another big chunk is low-income African Americans that comes from a community that is inherently very homophobic.”
He said some players are “dumb as hell” and might be more susceptible to conspiracy theories if they “get their heads knocked around a few times.”
As for Goodell, Enteen said: “I don’t think the commissioner of the NFL hates gay people, hates black people. Jerry Jones, who really runs the NFL, I think he hates gay people, black people.”
He also told the unidentified reporter that “most of the fans are high-school-educated alcoholics” and called them “mouth breathers.”
Enteen had been with the organization for four years.
The Commanders open the season on the road Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
–Field Level Media
