The Washington Commanders on Thursday fired an employee who made comments about the team’s players being anti-gay, accused Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being racist and anti-gay and called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”
On Wednesday, the team had suspended its vice president of content, Rael Enteen, who had been with the organization for four years, for comments he made to an undercover reporter for the O’Keefe Media Group. The suspension was made pending further investigation.
According to a social media video from the media group, Enteen had met the reporter on the dating app Hinge and met with her twice at local restaurants. According to James Keefe, the CEO of the O’Keefe Media Group, the interviews took place at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., in June.
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“The language used in the video runs counter to our values at the Commanders organization,” a team spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday.