One week after making comments on Dan Patrick's radio show that Tony Romo's athleticism must be the result of some black ancestry, Michael Irvin returned to the show today and addressed those comments."I do want to apologize for those comments," Irvin said today. "They were inappropriate and insensitive.... What I always try to do is give people first-hand knowledge of what it's like in the locker room and how we as players joke around with one another. This is how I joke around with Romo."
Patrick said some have suggested that there was a double standard that Irvin, as a black man, got away with his comments while a white broadcaster might not have. Patrick added, "I'm as guilty because I was laughing."
Irvin also said he thought some people might have thought his comments were worse than they were because, "When it's written it comes off in a different tone." (You can listen for yourself here.) Before going on to talk about yesterday's NFL action, Irvin reiterated, "I certainly have to know where to draw the line, and I needed to draw the line last week and I did not, so I apologize.... The last thing I want to do is offend anybody. I want to have fun, I enjoy what I do, but by no means do I want to offend anybody."




