Eagles wide
receiver Riley Cooper,
who returned to practice on Tuesday after a brief stint away from the
team, said that he's spoken with each of his teammates individually
since a video capturing him using a derogatory racial remark went
viral, asking them not to forgive him for his actions, but to judge
him by his future.
"I
talked to everyone individually," he said following the team's
joint practice with the New England Patriots.
"I told them, 'I don't want you to forgive me, because that puts
the burden on you. I want it all on me.' I told them that and I told
them I apologize. They could tell it was from the heart, they know
I'm not that kind of person. It feels good to have support from the
guys."
He
added that he felt that 100 percent of his teammates were in support
of him, something he sensed on the field in his return.
"It
felt good to be out there with the guys and catching and running and
making some plays and them coming up to you, supporting you,
high-fiving you, chest-bumping you like JasonAvant did
in the end zone when I had that TD," Cooper said. "It just
felt good to be back out here with the guys."
The Eagles had excused Cooper on Friday and sent him for sensitivity
training after video of his remark, made at a Kenny Chesney concert
in June, surfaced last week.
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