Pace University Senior Captain Of Alleged Football Team Gives Nazi Salute In Confederate Flag Outfit
The Pace Chronicle received the below Snapchat photo from an anonymous source Sunday with a note attached identifying the individual in the snap as football captain Tyler Owens.
Owens has since been suspended while the university investigates the leaked pic. Former teammate and friend Addison Casey quickly came to his defense.
From the Pace Chronicle:
“[Owens has] done so much for me,” said Casey, who played on the defensive line with Owens from 2012 to 2014. “People are taking a joke out of context, it was just a couple of guys messing around, they saw the [clothing], and jokingly put it on.”
It is rumored that it is an ex-girlfriend who leaked the photo first, according to Casey.
Current teammates have yet to comment.
Hey — any publicity is good publicity, right Pace University? Now, just because of this PR disaster, I know you have a Division II football program. Go Setters!
You kind of have to respect his move to double down on the racism, too. The Grand Wizard KKK joke as he’s fully draped head to toe in a confederate flag just wasn’t offensive enough. He had to throw in the Nazi salute for good measure. Suck it, PC police!
Obviously, context is everything here. Kid could very well just be mocking backwoods skinheads for all we know. Unfortunately, this is the internet, and very rarely are we afforded the luxury of context with photos like this.
Joke or not, you just have to be smarter, Tyler. You’re a big swinging dick on the campus of a school I imagine has maybe eighty people, tops. Of course this was going to make the rounds around the university and get out to the general public. Just not a good look, man.
Also, if you haven’t removed your ex from Snapchat, you’re certifiably insane. She’s just sitting there, looking at her stories, waiting for you to slip up and put on a super racist costume and throw up the most offensive hand gesture in history. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned..
[via Pace Chronicle]
Looks like he will now have a lot of time to pace.
10 years ago at 2:50 pmThank God this knucklehead isn’t in a fraternity, otherwise this would raise some serious hell.
10 years ago at 2:52 pmSo will the football team be kicked off campus now that one of its members has made a mistake?
10 years ago at 2:54 pmNot unless CNN blows it up or Rolling Stone writes up some bullshit article. Oh, wait…
10 years ago at 3:19 pmWhen will people learn if f you are white a male straight and successful, you are already a target for the pc social justice warriors who find an exxuces for outrage. They use social medial to be judge and jury in these kangaroo courts of public outrage and shaming. I mean taking ing a picturew in your own home gets you in trouble wtf? regardless kid should have known we live in an extremly whiney PC pussified society
10 years ago at 7:06 pm#WhiteLivesMatter
10 years ago at 7:19 pmCan’t wait to see the liberal media have a field day with this one, oh wait since it’s not about a fraternity they won’t give a shit.
10 years ago at 2:54 pmThe name ‘Addison Casey’ makes me confused and irate.
10 years ago at 2:55 pmso what wouldve happened if he wore a black beret and all black clothing while holding his fist up with a caption reading, “Black Power?” would the so called outrage be equivalent or is this just yet another example of the typical knee jerk reactions that this pussified nation keeps doing?
10 years ago at 3:01 pmWould you let the president of your chapter send out Nazi pictures of himself donning a traitorous flag? He has the right to say what he wants, but people have the right to judge him for it. The beauty of the first amendment!
10 years ago at 6:38 pmNothing traitorous about American History, moon cricket
10 years ago at 7:51 pmMoon cricket?
10 years ago at 8:33 pmActually, by definition, traitorous is exactly what it was. At least sound smart when you try to insult someone. You’re making us look bad, you redneck fuck.
10 years ago at 12:07 amThe traitor part wasn’t wrong, it was the slave owning part. If you really have a problem with high treason, I hope you don’t celebrate the 4th of July.
10 years ago at 7:26 amThe 4th of July is celebrating betraying the Brits. The Confederacy betrayed the USA.
10 years ago at 8:09 amTreason for the right reason is a good thing. There’s honestly nothing to stop our government from becoming just as bad as Britains’ was. Some feel it is already. We’re a country born of treason, and we talk about it like it’s a bad thing.
10 years ago at 3:32 pmYou can’t fix stupid…him being a dumb shit doesn’t have anything to do with a piece of cloth. Before any ignorant folks tell me the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia is racist, educate yourselves on the real reasons for the war, Lincolns blatant disregard for our laws and Constitution, etc. He created W. Va. Illegally and as a slave state. The more you know…
10 years ago at 3:02 pmAre you being serious?
10 years ago at 4:53 pmWhy don’t you take literally 30 seconds to research? Ill even get you started. You can deny facts all you want, doesn’t mean they’re not true only 5% of Southerners were slave owners, do you really think 95% of the population (including tons of blacks who were Equally paid in the Confed but not in the Union) would fight to keep something that only 5% of the people did? The McCormick reaper was making slavery obsolete anyways at the time.
http://www.debate.org/opinions/was-lincoln-a-tyrant
10 years ago at 5:36 pmSomething tells me you don’t actually own a yacht
10 years ago at 6:07 pmif it wasn’t for lincoln I wouldn’t be wearing sperrys now. #fucktheconfederates
10 years ago at 6:30 pmReally?
“I will say, then, that I am not nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race.” — Abraham Lincoln, “Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, September 18, 1858, Charleston, Illinois
Please tell me more about this “great” civil rights leader…
10 years ago at 6:36 pmbro stop wasting your time I’m not going to read something you copied and pasted.
10 years ago at 6:53 pmHow else is he going to repeat Lincolns words?
10 years ago at 8:02 amGoober
10 years ago at 3:07 pmWhat the fuck is Pace University?
10 years ago at 3:07 pmThe “alleged” football team? You mean it might not be a football team?
10 years ago at 3:08 pmAre you telling me that you’ve heard of the Pace University football team?
10 years ago at 3:25 pm