Commanders fire VP Rael Enteen after controversial video comments on players, Roger Goodell
NY Post
The Commanders have terminated embattled exec Rael Enteen, hours after a video surfaced Wednesday of Washington’s vice president of content allegedly accusing NFL players of being homophobic, among other disparaging remarks.
The Commanders, who are just days away from its season opener against the Buccaneers, confirmed Enteen’s firing to ESPN on Thursday through a spokesperson.
Washington’s decision to fire Enteen comes one day after the team initially suspended him for alleged comments made in a video, recorded during an undercover date with an O’Keefe Media Group journalist.
In the nearly 11-minute video, which was posted to O’Keefe Media Group CEO James O’Keefe’s X account on Wednesday, Enteen is asked about “his description of Commanders players,” and responds, “Over 50 percent of our roster is either white religious — and God says ‘f–k the gays’ — another big chunk is very low income African-American that comes from a community that is inherently very homophobic.”
Elsewhere in the clip, Enteen to referred to NFL fans as “high-school educated alcoholics” and “mouth breathers.”
“Most of the fans, I would say, are high school-educated alcoholics,” he said.
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