Rashard Mendenhall has apologized for explosive comments made Monday on Twitter about Bin Laden's death. It's certainly a well articulated apology, but it doesn't change what he said. Some of his more choice comments and my response:
"It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard one side." I guess we could start with the fact that he's responsible for the death of 3,000 people on 9/11 and that we don't really need to hear any more - though we have heard his side - but apparently he's not convinced that Bin Laden is behind 9/11:
"We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down, demolition style. ... I'm not convinced (bin Laden) was even behind the attacks. We have really seen no evidence to prove it other than the gov telling us." Apparently, he never saw the clips of two planes flying into the WTC and the buildings crumbling nor does he believe the people who were there. Nor does he seem to have heard that Bin Laden happily admitted he was behind the attacks: "I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers ... I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids."
All this from a man who compared the NFL to the slave trade in March:
"Anyone with knowledge of the slave trade and the NFL could say that these two parallel each other."
Perhaps I need to re-read the history books, but it's news to me that the slaves were paid exorbitantly well.
Often I believe that athletes (and most celebrities for that matter) are better seen than heard.
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