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Commanders fire VP over comments about players, Jones and Goodell
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Commanders fire VP over comments about players, Jones and Goodell

ASHBURN, Va. — The Commanders have fired an employee, a day after video surfaced in which he made comments about the team’s anti-gay stance, accused Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being racist and called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”

Rael Enteen, Washington’s vice president of content for the past four years, also criticized fans, calling them “mouth breathers.”

The team confirmed the firing through a spokesperson on Thursday, but declined to comment further on the matter.

Washington suspended Enteen on Wednesday, shortly after the O’Keefe Media Group video was played on social media platforms. According to the video, Enteen met the woman on the dating app Hinge, but she turned out to be undercover for the media group. They met twice in June at restaurants in D.C.

In a statement Wednesday, the team said it would investigate the situation. Less than 24 hours later, it fired Enteen.

“The language used in the video is diametrically opposed to our values ​​within the Commanders organization,” a Commanders spokesperson said in the initial statement.

Enteen 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.”

He 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 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 that because the league makes so much money, “it can give DEI a false priority for good publicity.”

He also said in the video that “most of the fans are alcoholics with a high school education” and called them “mouth breathers.”

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 told the reporter, whose name was not revealed and who can be heard but not seen in the video, that his job was to sell hope. Three years ago, there was video of leaking pipes at what was then FedEx Stadium. Fans said it smelled like sewage, but Enteen said he tweeted that it was just water.

“That,” he said, “is state media.”