The Washington Commanders have fired an employee after he made derogatory comments about players and fans in an undercover video posted on social media.
A team spokesman said Thursday that vice president of content Rael Enteen is no longer with the team. Enteen was initially suspended after he said in a video posted by O’Keefe Media Group that some players were “dumb as hell” and homophobic, and called fans “high school educated alcoholics” and “mouth breathers.”
The team said Wednesday after the post came to light that “the language used in the video is inconsistent with our values at the Commanders organization.”
James O’Keefe, who founded the company last year, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the videos were taken during two dates in June in Washington. O’Keefe said Enteen and the woman who filmed the interactions met on a dating app.
Enteen said in the video that “over 50 percent of our roster is white religious people, and God says, ‘Fuck 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 added: “The rest, let’s say 49%, are not necessarily homophobic, but that doesn’t mean they want to make a video saying ‘come to a pride parade’.”
Enteen was also filmed criticizing NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, calling Goodell “a $50 million puppet” and the league’s social justice efforts performative.
Enteen, who has been with the team since 2020, also said in the video that he thinks Jones “hates gays and black people.”
In the video, Enteen says, “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, hates black people.”
The Cowboys did not respond to a request for comment.