{"id":4414,"date":"2013-07-31T22:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2013-07-31T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T02:49:56","slug":"michael-vick-forgives-riley-cooper-for-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/07\/31\/michael-vick-forgives-riley-cooper-for-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Vick forgives Riley Cooper for racial slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4415\" alt=\"rileycooper\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/rileycooper.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/rileycooper.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/rileycooper-300x181.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/rileycooper-50x30.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper used a racial slur while attending a Kenny Chesney concert which was caught on video tape.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday he spent the day apologizing and Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is ready to put the issue aside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe apologized for what he did, and as a team we understood,\u201d Vick said Wednesday evening outside team headquarters, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/sportsnow\/la-sp-sn-eagles-michael-vick-riley-cooper-forgiven-20130731,0,7630398.story#axzz2afzgGq17\" target=\"_blank\">LATimes.com<\/a>. \u201cWe all make mistakes in life and we all do and say things that maybe we do mean or we don\u2019t mean. But as a teammate, I forgave him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4VOGiZCuBo\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Those comments came abouter Vick&#8217;s brother Marcus offered $1,000 for a safety to lay Cooper out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo address my brother\u2019s situation and what he\u2019s saying, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s really relevant,\u201d said Vick, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csnphilly.com\/football-philadelphia-eagles\/marcus-vick-offers-bounty-cooper-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">CSNPhilly.com<\/a>. \u201cYou can\u2019t allow yourself to be encumbered in what\u2019s going on. I don\u2019t agree with what my brother is saying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles have fined Cooper an undisclosed amount of money and the NFL is considering punishment of their own.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cRiley is still my teammate and he just stood in front of us and apologized for what he said. Somewhere deep down you\u2019ve got to find some level of respect for that. To people in the outside world who don\u2019t know how we\u2019re dealing with it, they\u2019re going to forge their own opinions, but my brother has to not show a certain level of ignorance himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course Marcus Vick is using the old twitter got hacked excuse at this point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper used a racial slur while attending a Kenny Chesney concert which was caught on video tape. On Wednesday he spent the day apologizing and Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is ready to put the issue aside. \u201cHe apologized for what he did, and as a team we understood,\u201d Vick said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[45,342],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-michael-vick","tag-riley-cooper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","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=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}