Dan Hampton Removes One Foot From His Mouth

[Hostile]

Dan Hampton apologizes for Katrina remark

9/7/2010 6:41:40 AM

According to James Varney of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, former Chicago Bears defensive end Dan Hampton offered an unqualified apology Monday evening to New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents stung by his remark that the Minnesota Vikings, "need to hit that town like Katrina," when they play the New Orleans Saints in the Superdome Thursday night.

"I regret it immensely and I am sorry," Hampton said. "It was a horrible choice of words and a stupid comment."

"Obviously it was a throwaway line and I meant no ill will or intent," he said. "It was just horribly stupid."

"Some of my best memories are of New Orleans and I would never, it just...," Hampton said before repeating he apologized unreservedly. "It was just stupid, a stupid thing to say. I regret it and I am sorry."

 

[Established1971]

Dan Hampton apologizes for Katrina remark

9/7/2010 6:41:40 AM

According to James Varney of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, former Chicago Bears defensive end Dan Hampton offered an unqualified apology Monday evening to New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents stung by his remark that the Minnesota Vikings, "need to hit that town like Katrina," when they play the New Orleans Saints in the Superdome Thursday night.

"I regret it immensely and I am sorry," Hampton said. "It was a horrible choice of words and a stupid comment."

"Obviously it was a throwaway line and I meant no ill will or intent," he said. "It was just horribly stupid."

"Some of my best memories are of New Orleans and I would never, it just...," Hampton said before repeating he apologized unreservedly. "It was just stupid, a stupid thing to say. I regret it and I am sorry."

I kind of understand the whole timing thing. A certain amount of decades have to pass before something is ok, I just wonder what that is? I mean if pro football began using the term blitz in the 40's people would have thought it terribly insenstive right?

 

[BAZ]

I kind of understand the whole timing thing. A certain amount of decades have to pass before something is ok, I just wonder what that is? I mean if pro football began using the term blitz in the 40's people would have thought it terribly insenstive right?

The blitz was in Britland, I'm sure Pearl harbour would be closer to the bone.

At the time obviously.

 

[Hostile]

I kind of understand the whole timing thing. A certain amount of decades have to pass before something is ok, I just wonder what that is? I mean if pro football began using the term blitz in the 40's people would have thought it terribly insenstive right?

The term blitz didn't wait decades though. Don Ettinger is regarded as the inventor of the blitz and his playing career was the late 1940's and 1950.

I think however that war terminology has always been more accepted in football. Aerial assault, ground attack, bomb, etc.

 

[trickblue]

Yep... those Bears and their fans have always been a classy bunch...

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[viman96]

What does "unqualified apology" mean?

 

[Idgit]

Hey, he manned-up and apologized. And it was a legit apology.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

I don't get the apology... Anyone with a heart wouldn't have used those words.

 

[pancakeman]

The term blitz didn't wait decades though. Don Ettinger is regarded as the inventor of the blitz and his playing career was the late 1940's and 1950.

I think however that war terminology has always been more accepted in football. Aerial assault, ground attack, bomb, etc.

WW2 may be seen as more of a US victory than Katrina, too.

 

[Hostile]

WW2 may be seen as more of a US victory than Katrina, too.

There is that.

 

[YosemiteSam]

He needs to take the foot that he removed from his mouth and shove it up his ***.

 

[couchscout]

What does "unqualified apology" mean?

It means he didn't qualify the apology with something like "I'm really sorry, but in all fairness I was really drunk that night". Basically, he didn't make any excuses, he apologized profusely and repeatedly said how stupid it was for him to say it.

 

[rockj7]

It means he didn't qualify the apology with something like "I'm really sorry, but in all fairness I was really drunk that night". Basically, he didn't make any excuses, he apologized profusely and repeatedly said how stupid it was for him to say it.

Dan Hampton is not too smart that would be like someone on this board saying we should blow up the Giants o-line like the world trade that event was just to tragic to ever make a comment like that no matter how long ago its been.

 

[couchscout]

Dan Hampton is not too smart that would be like someone on this board saying we should blow up the Giants o-line like the world trade that event was just to tragic to ever make a comment like that no matter how long ago its been.

Rappers say things like "blow you up like Hiroshima" and such all the time. Its a pretty big double standard really. They get away with saying whatever they want. Maybe because it wasn't an American tragedy...I dunno. Though that definitely doesn't make it any less classy.

 

[Venger]

Jeez when did football players and fans turn into such insufferable sissies (I changed the word, grown ups can figure out the real word...) ???

Hit New Orleans like Katrina... good line. Sounds like something someone who played a pro sport would say.

Now you gently apply your feminine napkin and apologize for not being sensitive. What... the... this is football, not ladies golf. Heck, in ladies golf they probably talk worse smack than that. Michelle Wie tells Sorenstam "I gonna light you up like a Great White concert baby..."

This sport could use less estrogen.

 

[Baileyneverfailey]

Jeez when did football players and fans turn into such insufferable sissies (I changed the word, grown ups can figure out the real word...) ???

Hit New Orleans like Katrina... good line. Sounds like something someone who played a pro sport would say.

Now you gently apply your feminine napkin and apologize for not being sensitive. What... the... this is football, not ladies golf. Heck, in ladies golf they probably talk worse smack than that. Michelle Wie tells Sorenstam "I gonna light you up like a Great White concert baby..."

This sport could use less estrogen.

So because it's football making offensive remarks is okay? So if your mother was raped and murdered but you played for the Cowboys, you'd be cool with a commentator saying "Player X needs to run up in Venger and do his business like that rapist did to his mother?"

Sure you would.

 

[NinePointOh]

Rappers say things like "blow you up like Hiroshima" and such all the time. Its a pretty big double standard really. They get away with saying whatever they want. Maybe because it wasn't an American tragedy...I dunno. Though that definitely doesn't make it any less classy.

It's not a double standard, they just have entirely different audiences. Consumers who listen to rap music are more likely to enjoy things that push the envelope and offend delicate sensibilities than consumers who watch sports analysis on TV.

 

[couchscout]

It's not a double standard, they just have entirely different audiences. Consumers who listen to rap music are more likely to enjoy things that push the envelope and offend delicate sensibilities than consumers who watch sports analysis on TV.

Well played sir, well played

 

[casmith07]

You can tell when someone's apology is sincere by the language they choose.

Obviously wasn't a carefully crafted, "canned" apology that you normally see in these kinds of circumstances - which means that it was likely genuine.

 

[LandryFan]

Hey, he manned-up and apologized. And it was a legit apology.

I saw no apology for his stupid "brokeback" reference to the Cowboys. That guy is just an idiot.