*Saturday night Kyler Murray celebrated the biggest night of his college football career when he won the Heisman trophy. By Midnight, offensive Tweets he sent as a teenager had emerged and his career milestone took a backseat to mainstream media’s coverage of his 2012 Tweets.
Murray tweets, which were reportedly sent when he was around 14 or 15 years old, featured a homophobic slurthat was directed at a friend. They were allegedly deleted at some point early Sunday morning, and the athlete issued an apology.
Peep his response below.
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In related news, former Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt has entered counseling for alcohol and anger management.
According to NFL Media, Hunt is being investigated by the NFL for three separate violent incidents that occurred in the past year. He was released by Kansas City last month after a video emerged of him physically assaulting a white woman at a hotel in Cleveland back in February.
It was later revealed that he also allegedly punched a man while visiting an Ohio resort in June and attacked a man at a nightclub in January.
What happened in that hotel between the former NFLer and Abby Ottinger — a 19-year-old Kent State student — early on the morning of Feb. 10 was unknown by the public until Nov. 30, when TMZ published a portion of the video showing Abby being knocked down in a hallway and kicked by Hunt.
“I’m asking for forgiveness and I definitely believe I deserve forgiveness,” Hunt told ESPN following the release of the hotel clip. “Everything is really happening fast right now and I just want everybody to forgive me. I know it’s going to be hard. I made a bad choice and I’m not going to let this bring me down.”
An ESPN report confirms that Ottinger called Hunt a n*gger and struck him during the altercation.
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