Philadelphia Eagles receiver Riley Cooper made headlines on Wednesday when a video leaked of him saying a racial slur. He apologized, but it didn't stop Michael Vick's brother, Marcus, from using Twitter to put out a hit on the receiver, Fox Sports reports.
A video surfaced on Wednesday showing Cooper at a Kenny Chesney concert. In the video, the agitated receiver points and says, "I will jump that fence and fight every [expletive] here, bro."
Cooper apologized to everyone publically, saying he felt "ashamed and disgusted" with himself.
"This is the lowest of lows," Cooper said, via Fox Sports. "This is not the type of person I want to be portrayed as. This isn't the type of person I am. I'm extremely sorry."
The apology wasn't enough to avoid having Marcus putting a hit out on him.
Marcus deleted the tweets, but it was too late. Michael addressed the tweets and admonished his younger brother for them.
"To address my brother's situation and what he's saying, I don't think it's really relevant," Vick said, via Fox Sports. "You can't allow yourself to be encumbered in what's going on. I don't agree with what my brother is saying. Riley is still my teammate and he just stood in front of us and apologized for what he said. Somewhere deep down you've got to find some level of respect for that. To people in the outside world who don't know how we're dealing with it, they're going to forge their own opinions, but my brother has to not show a certain level of ignorance himself."
Below is the video that started everything:
