Michael Irvin is really perplexed about being taken off Super Bowl coverage by the NFL Network.
Irvin states he ran into a woman in his hotel lobby after dinner, spoke to her for a minute, shook her hand and went to his room.
Whatever Irving allegedly said in that minute conversation prompted the NFL Network to take him off Super Bowl coverage even though no crime was committed and Irvin barely even remembers the interaction.
Michael Irvin has been sent home from NFL Network’s Super Bowl 2023 coverage after a woman at a hotel made an unspecified complaint.
“Michael Irvin will not be part of the NFL Network’s Super Bowl LVII week coverage,” NFL Network spokesman Alex Reithmiller said in a statement to The Post.
Irvin explained what happened to Dallas Morning News.
The interaction in question, Irvin told The News in a phone interview from Arizona, occurred Sunday in Glendale, the site of this Sunday’s Super Bowl, following dinner and drinks with former Cowboys safety Michael Brooks. Irvin returned to the hotel at which he is staying and struck up a conversation there with a woman.
“Honestly, I’m a bit baffled with it all,” Irvin said. “This all happened in a 45-second conversation in the lobby. When I got back after going out … I came into the lobby, and I talked to somebody. I talked to this girl. I don’t know her, and I talked to her for about 45 seconds.
“We shook hands. Then, I left. … That’s all I know.”
Irvin, a Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, said he hadn’t seen the woman before or since their talk, which he estimated lasted up to a minute. He said he is unable to recall the full nature of their conversation but insisted the only physical contact between the two was the handshake.
“I don’t really recall that conversation, to tell you the truth,” Irvin said. “We were out drinking. It was just a friendly conversation. ‘What’s up?’ I don’t even know. … I am totally perplexed.”
What law did I break?” Irvin said. “There was definitely nothing physical. … That’s honestly all that happened. Nobody was in my room. It was a 45-second conversation in the lobby, a handshake and we left. … I don’t know. I don’t know what this is, and it’s running me crazy.”
It is hard to say if this was justified without knowing exactly what Irving said in those 45 seconds, but at face value it seems to be an overreaction from NFL Network.
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