{"id":3159,"date":"2014-10-22T10:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:54:32","slug":"michigan-qb-devin-gardner-talks-about-being-called-the-n-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2014\/10\/22\/michigan-qb-devin-gardner-talks-about-being-called-the-n-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan QB Devin Gardner talks about being called the N-word"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWith the Michigan Wolverwines 3-4 it is fair to criticize the play of quarterback Devin Gardner this season. The fifth-year season prepares for a Saturday match-up against No. 8 Michigan State and recently took time to talk to the Detroit News<\/a> about his season though his negative interaction with fans is what stands out in this piece.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been called the N-word so many times this year,” Gardner said. “One guy told me I was the N-word, and said I know N-words can’t play quarterback. And I was like, are we not past this? Say what you want about my skill, but come on.”<\/p>\n

Gardner estimated he has received at-least 1,000 negative comments via Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n

Despite some of the negative talk which is a result of six touchdown passes and eight interceptions, Gardner believes Michigan can still win games.<\/p>\n

“Every game is winnable. I feel we can win every game,” he said. “Some people say it and don’t believe it. I believe we can win every single game. I feel we’re hitting our stride on offense. I feel if I hadn’t been hurt in that (Penn State) game, we would have beat them by more. And on defense we’re playing well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Michigan Wolverwines 3-4 it is fair to criticize the play of quarterback Devin Gardner this season. The fifth-year season prepares for a Saturday match-up against No. 8 Michigan State and recently took time to talk to the Detroit News about his season though his negative interaction with fans is what stands out in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,131],"tags":[175,135,61,134],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-3159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news","8":"category-ncaafb-topstory","9":"tag-devin-gardner","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-michigan-wolverines","12":"tag-ncaafb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}