There are so many guys like this in sports media and, in many cases, in management positions with sports teams, you don’t have to wonder why racism still exists in sports.
The mental gymnastic that you have to do to come up with a theory on how someone could cause their own death when they were hit by a car is astonishing.
Haskins didn’t deserve to die. Nothing that happened in his career meant he had a death wish. We are talking about football. How he decided to throw his draft party or decide to leave school early to feed his family has no bearing on him losing his life.
Gil Brandt should be fired immediately.
This was a tragic incident, and the fact he is trying to make it into someone more is disgusting.
Here is Gil Brandt on NFL radio when asked about Dwayne Haskins.
“He was a guy that was living to be dead.”
“It was always something” with Haskins
“Maybe if he stayed in school a year he wouldn’t do silly things [like] jogging on a highway.”
This is just sick behavior. Haskins’ had a wife, parents, siblings, family members, and friends. The Steelers say he was beloved on the team and worked hard to become successful.
The belittlement of black men by older white men is sickening and is no different from slavery days.
The fact that his co-host didn’t do anything to stop him or correct him makes him complicit in it.
This is pathetic behavior, and Brandt needs to be fired immediately. If he spoke to a woman or a gay person like this, it wouldn’t even be a question, he would have already been shown the door.
Only black men can be spoken about in this manner with no consequences, and it is SICK.
Flip the page for the disgusting comments from Brandt.