The Philadelphia Eagles don’t handle the publishing of their yearly calendar, but they may ask for a little more oversight after this year’s flap. That’s because Riley Cooper is displayed for the month of February, which also happens to be Black History Month.
You may remember that Cooper was infamously 
caught dropping an N-bomb at a Kenny Chesney concert back in the summer of 2013. Cooper apologized and was later fined an undisclosed amount by the team. He inked a five-year contract extension worth $25 million after catching a career-best eight touchdown passes the ensuing season.
The Eagles released a statement Thursday evening saying they aren’t responsible for the calendar’s publication.
“We do not oversee the production of the annual team calendar. We do not provide any input about the players who are featured or where those pictures appear in the calendar. The NFL licenses the production of that calendar to a third party and we do not have an opportunity to review the material,” the team said in a statement via Deadspin.
The team can deny it all they want, but that doesn’t mean we have to believe their explanation. Hey, remember when another notorious racist did some charity specifically in Black History Month? Now tell me that wasn’t a coincidence.
