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Alabama Football Player Kicked Off Team For Racist Tweet

9:25AM Tuesday
December 18, 2012

Crazy story from Alabama:

A North Alabama football player posted a racist tweet about President Barack Obama tonight in response to NBC pre-empting the 49ers-Patriots game on Sunday Night Football to show Obama's speech at the Newtown memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.

Bradley Patterson, an uninvited walk-on long snapper, joined the team in the fourth week of the season, according to a UNA official.

He is no longer a member of the team, according to a tweet tonight by UNA Athletic Director Mark Linder. The tweet was confirmed to Al.com by a university official.

Patterson, who goes by the handle 2A_HogOfTheYear, tweeted; "Take that (N-word) off the tv, we wanna watch football!"

The accounts has since been closed.

Way to work your butt off to get on the football team, only to get kicked off because of something you put on Twitter. Do people not realize that twitter has the ability to be seen by anybody? I know there are privacy settings, but still. THE INTERNET IS FOREVER... this guy needed this lesson.

Whether you like him or not, you can't knock President Obama when he's comforting the residents of a town where one of the most horrific shootings in US history just happened.

(Jeff)

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