It is easier to be blackballed when you aren’t a star or crucial player to the team.
That is why a lot of backup players are hesitant to do or say anything. The problem with this type of accusation is the NFL or in this case the Colts have enough plausible deniability because Cromartie wasn’t a core player.
With that being said, knowing what we know now, it isn’t hard to believe his statements to be true.
“I’m not going to say ‘part’ of the reason. That is THE reason,” Cromartie told the Daily News. “My play wasn’t part of it. I still feel that way after a whole entire year.”
His wife Terricka has said Cromartie, the first Colts player to demonstrate during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was fired because he took a knee.
“I think it’s the wrong venue,” Irsay told USA TODAY Sports. “It hasn’t been a positive thing. What we all have to be aware of as players, owners, PR people, equipment managers, is when the lights go on we are entertainment. We are being paid to put on a show. There are other places to express yourself.”
Terricka Cromartie posted, then deleted, a volcanic Instagram post in response to Irsay’s comment on the heels of her husband’s release.
“I know my husband was told Not to take a Knee and he went with his heart and he took one,” she wrote. “And that cost him his Job and Clearly this Statement backs that up.”
The Cromarties now have a reality show that will try to show that Cromartie is more than just a guy who has 14 kids. The last three came after he had a vasectomy and he explains how it happened.
Indeed, Antonio Cromartie is best known for fathering 14 children. When he and the Jets appeared on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” he had trouble remembering all of their names. And despite getting a vasectomy in 2013, Cromartie has fathered three more children, bringing his total with Terricka to six little ones.
“It just reversed on its own. They tell you beforehand it’s not 100 percent,” he said of his failed procedure. “It’s like every other form of birth control; it’s not guaranteed.”
It is guaranteed if you actually go back and do the test that it work. When you don’t, this is what could happen and that is something doctors tell you.