I know this is OT and it's not even about football (NBA) but given the issue was brought up before I thought some may be interested.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/jeremy-lin-meets-with-ex-espn-headline-writer-1.3627544
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/jeremy-lin-meets-with-ex-espn-headline-writer-1.3627544
Quote:
Knicks star Jeremy Lin had lunch on Tuesday with the former ESPN employee who was fired last month for writing a headline about Lin that included a racially insensitive word.
Lin met with Anthony Federico, a 28-year-old Connecticut man, during a Knicks off-day. According to Federico, the two discussed their shared Christian faith and Lin's knee injury. Federico wrote an offensive headline that appeared on ESPN's mobile site for 35 minutes in the early-morning hours of Feb. 19.
A Knicks spokesman said on Wednesday that Lin did not wish to publicly discuss the meeting.
"The fact that he reached out to me," Federico said. "The fact that he took the time to meet with me in his insanely busy schedule . . . He's just a wonderful, humble person. He didn't have to do that, especially after everything had kind of died down for the most part.