{"id":462497,"date":"2025-10-20T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/462497\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:17:10","slug":"racial-slurs-directed-at-vikings-cb-isaiah-rodgers-after-eagles-game-team-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/462497\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial slurs directed at Vikings CB Isaiah Rodgers after Eagles game, team says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings said they&#8217;re &#8220;disgusted&#8221; by racial slurs they say were directed at cornerback Isaiah Rodgers following Sunday&#8217;s game against the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Vikings\/status\/1980376848510091714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released a statement<\/a> on social media on Monday afternoon that said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are disgusted by the racial slurs directed at Isaiah Rodgers following yesterday&#8217;s game. As we have said previously, there simply is no room for racist words or actions in sports or society. We support Isaiah and all players who, unfortunately, experience this type of ignorant and prejudicial behavior far too often, and we ask our fans to continue to fight to eliminate racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Seifert with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46660654\/vikings-isaiah-rodgers-calls-fans-racist-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN<\/a> said Rodgers posted a screenshot on Instagram showing multiple messages that included the N-word.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seifert said that another message from a social media user said &#8220;ur worse than Hitler.&#8221; The individual who wrote the message later apologized.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rodgers_isaiah\/status\/1980301329491972376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on X<\/a> said, &#8220;Racism is real,&#8221; and, &#8220;Thats not even the worst Ive seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Racism is real \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 keep football , football. Thats not even the worst Ive Seen.<br \/>Stay solid or stay silent<br \/>&#8220;F A N S&#8221;<br \/>Fake Applause, No Support<br \/>Or<br \/>Faithful And Never Switching<\/p>\n<p>Pick a side and stay on it !<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Isaiah Rodgers Sr. (@rodgers_isaiah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rodgers_isaiah\/status\/1980301329491972376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rodgers said in a reply to his post that the slurs were &#8220;some of the most racist comments&#8221; he&#8217;d ever seen since entering the league.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/philadelphia-eagles-minnesota-vikings-week-7-nfl-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vikings lost to the Eagles<\/a> on Sunday in Minneapolis by a score of 28-22.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Vikings said they&#8217;re &#8220;disgusted&#8221; by racial slurs they say were directed at cornerback Isaiah Rodgers following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,2529,6,12897,9,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-462497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesotavikings","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-racism","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}