Michael Irvin is SENT HOME from Super Bowl LVII by NFL Network for ‘saying something to a woman in his hotel lobby after he had a few drinks’… but Cowboys legend says ‘forgotten’ encounter only lasted a ‘minute’
Dallas Cowboys legend-turned-analyst Michael Irvin has been sent home from the NFL Network’s ongoing Super Bowl LVII coverage following a complaint made by a woman at a hotel in Arizona.
‘Michael Irvin will not be part of the NFL Network’s Super Bowl LVII week coverage,’ NFL Network spokesman Alex Reithmiller told DailyMail.com in a statement.
The specifics of the complaint, as well as the woman’s identity, have not been revealed and the NFL Network spokesman declined to elaborate further in an email exchange with DailyMail.com.
The woman made the complaint to the hotel, which then notified NFL Network, DailyMail.com has learned.
The 56-year-old Irvin gave his side of the story to Dallas radio station 105.3 the Fan on Wednesday morning, saying he briefly spoke with a woman in his hotel lobby, but can’t remember what he said to prompt a complaint.
Dallas Cowboys legend-turned-analyst Michael Irvin has been sent home from the NFL Network’s ongoing Super Bowl LVII coverage following a complaint made by a woman at a hotel in Arizona
‘When I came into the hotel [on Sunday night], they asked what I did and I said, ”I just went straight to the room,”’ Irvin said. ‘But I guess I had met somebody in the lobby – talked to somebody in the lobby for about a minute and then I went to my room. And then after I got up there, they said they had to move me in the hotel. I said, ‘Move me in the hotel for what?”
‘So they moved my hotel, and I said, ”What’s going on, guys? What’s happening? Why are we moving hotels?”
‘They said, ”Well, last night you walked in, you talked to somebody.” I said, ”I didn’t talk to anybody. I went straight to the room.”
‘And then they showed it on camera that I did talk to somebody. I talked to this girl for about a minute. I don’t know what — they didn’t show it to me. They told it to me. I didn’t see it. But that’s why they moved me, because I guess the girl said I said something to her within that minute that we talked, and so they moved me.’
‘That’s why I’m kind of hiding to wait and see how everything comes down,’ Irvin added. ‘It was a minute meeting somewhere in the lobby. I don’t even remember it really because I had a few drinks, to tell you the truth.’
Speaking with the Dallas Morning News, Irving said his only physical interaction with the woman was a brief handshake.
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