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Commanders suspend VP for comments about players, Jones, Goodell
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Commanders suspend VP for comments about players, Jones, Goodell

ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders have suspended an employee who made comments about the team’s anti-gay attitudes, accused Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being racist and anti-gay and called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”

The team said it has suspended four-year vice president of content Rael Enteen over comments he made to an undercover reporter from O’Keefe Media Group.

According to a social media video from the media group, Enteen met the reporter on the dating app Hinge and met her twice at local restaurants. According to James Keefe, CEO of O’Keefe Media Group, the interviews took place at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., in June.

“The language used in the video is inconsistent with our values ​​at the Commanders organization,” a team spokesperson said in a statement. “We have suspended the employee pending an investigation and will have no further comment at this time.”

He told the undercover reporter that “over 50 percent of our roster is white religious people, and God says, ‘F— the gays.’ Their interpretation. I don’t believe it. Another large portion is low-income African-Americans who come from a community that is inherently very homophobic.”

In the video, Enteen also said that some players are “dumb as hell” and that some players who were smart don’t stay that way after getting hit in the head too many times. He also said that those who get “hit in the head a few times” are more susceptible to conspiracy theories.

Enteen also said, “I don’t think the commissioner of the NFL hates gays, hates black people. Jerry Jones, who actually runs the NFL, I think he hates gays, black people.”

Enteen, who played two years with the New York Jets before coming to Washington, called the league’s social justice initiatives “performative.”

“It’s not done out of the goodness of their hearts,” he said. “It’s done because George Floyd changed the game … It’s to make as much money as possible. The NFL cares about the bottom line, just like any business, above all else.”

Enteen said the league makes so much money that they can “prioritize DEI just to get publicity.”

Enteen told the undercover reporter that “most of the fans are alcoholics with a high school education” and called them “mouth breathers.”

Enteen also told the reporter, whose name was not revealed and who can only be heard on the video, that his job is to sell hope. Three years ago, there were videos of leaking pipes. Fans said it smelled like sewage, but Enteen said he said on Twitter that it was just water.

“That,” he said, “is state media.”