A sports journalist’s attempt to highlight the anti-gay comment from a Detroit Lions coach candidate more than 20 years ago backfired on Friday.
Dan Campbell, the current coach of the New Orleans Saints and former interim coach for the Miami Dolphins, reportedly became the favorite to secure the position of Lions coach earlier this week after the organization hired Brad Holmes as its general manager.
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A Detroit Free Press report came out on Friday highlighting Campbell making an anti-gay comment when he was an opponent of Texas A&M in 1998. The report said Campbell made the comment during an incentive rally that he liked to be going to. a school where “men like women and women like men.”
Campbell would apologize later, saying to a local newspaper: “I have offended some people and I am sorry for that. It was the heat of the moment. It is not necessarily that I addressed it to anyone.”
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Free Press editor Marlowe Alter created his own heat as detectives delved into his Twitter story in an attempt to cancel it. Several people brought up old Alter tweets using anti-gay slanders more than nine years ago.
Alter apologized, saying that he regretted his actions.
“I apologize for the unacceptable tweets from my past. There is no excuse for the language I used and I am ashamed. I cannot tolerate that language. I am sorry for having offended and deeply regretted my actions,” he wrote.
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Campbell is just the last figure in football to suffer a “cancellation” attempt.
Josh Allen and even Patrick Mahomes have been examined over previous controversial statements. In the end, everyone still has their jobs.