{"id":10241,"date":"2014-05-11T23:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10241"},"modified":"2014-05-11T23:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T03:20:30","slug":"dolphins-suspend-don-jones-for-insensitive-tweets-about-michael-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/11\/dolphins-suspend-don-jones-for-insensitive-tweets-about-michael-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins suspend Don Jones for insensitive tweets about Michael Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10242\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/donjones.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"607\" height=\"498\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/donjones.jpg 607w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/donjones-300x246.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/donjones-50x41.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Miami Dolphins have suspended defensive back Don Jones for insensitive remarks posted on twitter following the drafting of Michael Sam by the St. Louis Rams on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Following Sam&#8217;s selection, and subsequent kissing of his boyfriend, Jones took to twitter to tweet &#8220;OMG&#8221; and &#8220;horrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was made aware of it and I was disappointed in those comments,&#8221; Dolphins GM Dennis Hickey said Saturday night. &#8220;That&#8217;s not what we stand for as an organization.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Dolphins fine Don Jones, suspend him from team activities for his remarks about Michael Sam on Twitter yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Beasley (@AdamHBeasley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamHBeasley\/statuses\/465677377579024384\">May 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was just a few months ago that the Dolphins became the subject to intense media scrutiny during the  Jonathan Martin-Richie Incognito bully-gate saga. <\/p>\n<p>Jones will have to undergo sensitivity training before returning to the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>If Jones is an unfamiliar name to you it is because he only appeared in five games last season making 10 tackles and forcing two fumbles. He is currently listed as a backup safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Dolphins have suspended defensive back Don Jones for insensitive remarks posted on twitter following the drafting of Michael Sam by the St. Louis Rams on Saturday. Following Sam&#8217;s selection, and subsequent kissing of his boyfriend, Jones took to twitter to tweet &#8220;OMG&#8221; and &#8220;horrible.&#8221; &#8220;I was made aware of it and I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[744,100,739,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-don-jones","9":"tag-miami-dolphins","10":"tag-michael-sam","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10243,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions\/10243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}