Commanders fire vice president for comments on players, Jones and Goodell

ASHBURN, Va. – The Commanders have fired an employee a day after a video surfaced in which he made comments about the team's players being anti-gay, accused Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of racism and called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”

Rael Enteen, Washington's vice president for content for the past four years, also criticized the fans, calling them “mouth breathers.”

The team confirmed the firing through a spokesman on Thursday, but provided no further comment on the matter.

Washington suspended Enteen on Wednesday, shortly after the O'Keefe Media Group video was played on social media platforms. According to the video, Enteen had met the woman on the dating app Hinge, but it turned out she was working undercover for the media group. They met twice in June at restaurants in DC

In a statement on Wednesday, the team said it was investigating the situation. Less than 24 hours later, it fired Enteen.

“The language used in the video contradicts our values ​​at the Commanders organization,” a Commanders spokesperson said in the first statement.

Enteen told the undercover reporter that “over 50% of our membership is white religious people and God says, 'Fuck the gays.' Your interpretation. I don't believe any of it. Another large portion are low-income African-Americans who come from a community that is inherently very homophobic.”

He also said, “I don't think the commissioner of the NFL hates gays or blacks. Jerry Jones, who actually runs the NFL, hates gays and blacks, in my opinion.”

Enteen, who was with the Jets for two years before moving to Washington, called the league's social justice initiatives “performative.”

“They're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts,” he said. “They're doing it because George Floyd changed the game. … It's about making as much money as possible. The NFL, like any business, cares about profits above all else.”

Enteen said that because the league makes so much money, it can “fake DEI for the sake of good publicity.”

He also said in the video that “most of the fans are high school graduate alcoholics” and called them “mouth breathers.”

In the video, Enteen also said that some players are “dumb as hell” and that some who were smart don't stay that way if they get hit in the head too many times. He also said that those who “get their heads hit a few times” are more prone to conspiracy theories.

Enteen also told the reporter, whose name was not mentioned and who can be heard but not seen on the video, that his job was to sell hope. Three years ago, there were videos of leaking pipes at what was then FedEx Stadium. Fans said it smelled like sewage, but Enteen said he tweeted it was just water.

“These,” he said, “are state-controlled media.”