NFL Hall of Famer MIchael Irvin has vehemently denied the sexual misconduct allegations leveled agasint him by a woman working at the Renaissance Hotel in Arizona during Super Bowl weekend. The brief encounter turned into allegations of misconduct which led to ESPN and the NFL Network pulling Irvin from their coverage of the game.
Sitting next to his attorneys, Irvin delievered an impassioned speech professing his innocence. "I know I didn't do anything wrong, I know I didn't do anything wrong, and I was trying to do everything right," Irvin said.
He went onto make comparisons between what's happening to him and lynchings during the Jim Crow era. "This just blows my mind that in 2023 we are still dragging and hanging brothers by a tree," Irvin said. "I don't even know what I'm defending."
"This sickens me, this sickens me," he added. "This takes me back to a time when a white man, a white woman would accuse a Black man of something, and they would take a bunch of guys that were above the law, run in the barn, put a rope around his foot and drag him through the mud, and hang him by the tree."
To his potential benefit, however, Irvin has two witnesses who've come forward to lend their tesitmony in his favor. While listening to a recording of one of the witness testimonies, Irvin was seen visibly emotional as he wiped tears from his face.
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