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Annotated: Apologizing for “F G N S!”
On March 11, basketball announcer Matt Rowan was caught on a hot mic during the livestream of an Oklahoma high school basketball playoff game.
On March 11, basketball announcer Matt Rowan was caught on a hot mic during the livestream of an Oklahoma high school basketball playoff game. He called high school girls “f g n s for kneeling respectfully before the U.S. flag during the playing of the National Anthem. While they knelt, he ranted…throughout the anthem. Here is his “apology” with my annotations.
By Li Cohen Basketball announcer criticized after using racial slur
A high school sports announcer has come under fire for racist remarks he made about a girls basketball team while they were kneeling during the national anthem. On Friday, the announcer blamed his actions on his diabetes.
Matt Rowan made the remarks Thursday at a game between Norman High School and Midwest City in the Oklahoma 6A State Basketball Tournament. In a recording of the broadcast, broadcasters are heard telling viewers that the broadcast would return after the national anthem, but the mics were never turned off while the anthem played.
Man blames racist comments on his diabetes
14 Mar, 2021 12:11 AM
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The announcer made the racist comments while the girls kneeled during the anthem. Photo / Twitter
NZ Herald
A sports announcer in Oklahoma, US, who was caught on video using the n-word to refer to a team of high school bastketball players, has blamed the incident on his type 1 diabetes.
Matt Rowan, the sports announcer and former youth pastor, responded to the controversy after footage emerged showing him spewing the racist slur during a high school basketball game.
In a lengthy statement, Rowan said he thought his microphone was off when he referred to the girls in the Norman High School basketball team by the n-word.
Rowan, who says he was at one time a youth pastor, released a written statement Friday evening.
âDuring the Norman High School girls basketball game against Midwest City, I made inappropriate and racist comments believing that the microphone was off; however, let me state immediately that is no excuse, such comments should have never been uttered,â Rowan said in the statement.
â. I have not only embarrassed and disappointed myself I have embarrassed and disappointed my family and my friends.
âI will state that I suffer Type 1 Diabetes and during the game my sugar was spiking. While not excusing my remarks it is not unusual when my sugar spikes that I become disoriented and often say things that are not appropriate as well as hurtful. I do not believe that I would have made such horrible statements absent my sugar spiking.
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