Update: Texans Owner Apologizes After Comparing NFL Protests to 'Inmates Running the Prison'

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At a recent meeting of NFL owners and league executives regarding player protests, Texans owner Robert McNair warned his fellow owners that the league should avoid having "inmates running the prison," ESPN's Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. report.

McNair made the comment as he urged the room to consider the effect of protests on the league's business, according to ESPN's in-depth examination of how owners have responded in recent weeks to protests.

"We can't have the inmates running the prison," McNair reportedly said, referring to NFL players.

The meeting took place last week in New York, one day after a small group of owners met with a handful of players about ongoing protests during the national anthem.

NFL executive Troy Vincent, a former player, later stood up and said he was offended by McNair's comment, according to ESPN.

"After the owners finished, Troy Vincent stood up. He was offended by McNair's characterization of the players as "inmates." Vincent said that in all his years of playing in the NFL -- during which, he said, he had been called every name in the book, including the N-word -- he never felt like an "inmate."

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https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/10/27/houston-texans-bob-mcnair-nfl-protests-inmates

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[muntrv]

1. Memo to slaveowner McNair: They get paid to play football, not participate in the national anthem.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. What are the odds that he said inmate but was thinking N word...

[dalton99a]

3. Same ol' "black people are criminal" meme

He got caught

[malaise]

14. Ding ding we have a winner

[workinclasszero]

20. Yep

He's a "good republican" no doubt.

[Gothmog]

4. McNair can be an asshole

The Houston Texan coach has banned taking a knee but players can lock arms

[Moostache]

7. If the coach wants to play hard ass plantation screw for the owner, then the players should revolt.

If the entire team, or even the majority of the starters, decided to challenge this and sit or kneel we'd see real quick how serious the coach is about carrying the water for ownership's racist bullshit agenda. When "W's" and "L's" determine if you get to keep a multi-million dollar a year gig, the idea of benching players for something as inane and stupid as fake-patriotism tends to dissipate like a fart in the wind...

[Moostache]

5. I wish the players would EXPAND their protests...

Instead of just taking a knee at the pseudo-patriotic anthem playing, they should conspire to have each team take a knee on the first play of the game for each offense. Neither team gains an advantage but the message is clear to the plantation...err, owners.

Fuck anyone who supports the owners power grab here...the player's rights to voice an opinion are more valuable than all the accumulated billions in ill-gotten wealth that slime bags like Kroenke, Jones, McNair, Kraft and others have...the sooner they collectively fall on their fat asses, the better society will be!

[bathroommonkey76]

11. Your wish might be coming true.

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[Iggo]

6. The ad at the top of my page is for a white hoodie.

I shit you not.

[gratuitous]

8. Gee Bob, pining away for the good old days, are we?

Time was when you could just whup some uppity . . . I mean, exercise proper discipline and control over your employees.

[lpbk2713]

9. ... after seeing how his comments affect revenues.

He's a business man above all else. He saw which way
the wind was blowing and altered his course accordingly.

[Pope George Ringo II]

10. I have heard "Inmates are running the asylum."

But the prison is new to me. I don't believe I would care to say it is an improvement.

[Wounded Bear]

13. White folks get treatment, others get jail...

[Wounded Bear]

12. My Seahawks are their next opponent...

Loving this!

[Aristus]

15. Hope the Hawks clobber them.

Or at least the coach.

[Wounded Bear]

17. We should do fine...

they've lost some key players from their D.

[Pope George Ringo II]

19. The coach is innocent

The problem here is the owner.

The worst part is that he might actually be an improvement over Bud Adams, overall. This is not a statement in support of McNair.

[Paladin]

16. McNair has always been a fuckhole. No surprise he said something like this. (nt)

[MagickMuffin]

18. This is NOT an Apology

"I regret that I used that expression. I never meant to offend anyone and I was not referring to our players. I used a figure of speech that was never intended to be taken literally," McNair said. "I would never characterize our players or our league that way and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it."

He regrets he got caught being a racist a*hole. If he wasn't referring to "his players" then who was he referring to???

Was never meant to be taken literally, then how was it supposed to be taken???

Fug U, Bob McNair Slave Owner!!!

[Iggo]

21. Fuck apologies.