Radio station suspends host over racial slur used to describe Eagles' Kelce
Philadelphia Sportsradio 94.1 WIP released the following statement Wednesday after announcing that radio host Josh Innes had been suspended for three days for his comments about Eagles center Jason Kelce.
Innes used a racial epithet Tuesday to describe Kelce in a radio broadcast shortly before Eagles head coach Doug Pederson's introductory press conference. Innes was criticizing Kelce for showing up early to the press conference and being overly loyal when he he used a term that compared Kelce, who is white, to an African-American house slave.
Later in the broadcast, Innes offered the following apology, according to philly.com.
The self-proclaimed idiot's comments warranted a response from Kelce.
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