Not long after his “joke” about women’s soccer players went viral, Stephen A. Smith decided to apologize for his insensitive remark.
While “SportsCenter” was playing a highlight from a Women’s World Cup game between Germany and Norway, Smith cracked a joke about the women not blocking a shot because they didn’t want to mess up their hair. It was a poor joke invoking a stereotype about women, and many didn’t like it.
Smith decided to address his “joke” by apologizing over Twitter.
1-of-3: Folks, as usual, something I've said is gaining steam so let me address this right now: on @SportsCenter, doing highlights, I made a
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 12, 2015
Flip comment in fun about a women's soccer team not wanting to mess up their hair. Obviously, my comments were in poor taste. I have nothing
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 12, 2015
But the utmost respect for athletes of all genders — Especially since most are better than I'll ever be — so please KNOW I'm very sorry.
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 12, 2015
I apologize. It certainly was not my intent to offend anyone.
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 12, 2015
You have to love that. It was not intended to offend anyone, but it’s pretty obvious why it was offensive, so it’s surprising Smith didn’t realize that. Anyway, credit to our Steve DelVecchio for calling it in his post on the matter that an apology was coming.
