It should be noted this exchange happened in a Owner’s only meeting, so the players weren’t present.
This is how NFL owners really feel about racism and police brutality, they don’t care.
“We can’t have the inmates running the prison,” McNair said.
The remark came during an ownership-only session, without current players present. A former player, NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent, reportedly took issue with the remark. He explained during the meeting that, even though he had been called “every name in the book” during his playing career, not once did he feel like an “inmate.”
Via the report, Vincent and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones then engaged in a “sharp but quick back-and-forth,” as Jones pointed out that it was the league’s owners who built the business and it is the league’s owners who will decide what to do about the situation.
Jerry Jones is the face of the anti-protest and Trump’s errand boy, so you can’t be surprised by his reaction.
McNair apologized but it is too little, too late.