Richard Sherman Blasts Wife of Bills Kicker Dan Carpenter Over Her 'BS Apology'

Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman didn't hold back when discussing the castration threat from Kaela Carpenter, wife of the Bills kicker.

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Since her tweet where she suggested Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman should be castrated, Kaela Carpenter, wife of Buffalo Bills kicker Bill, has issued a statement on Twitter explaining her remarks. "My attempt at humor during a heated and highly controversial NFL game has not been received the way I intended," she wrote. "When I saw the out of control nature of the events that happened on the field, I jokingly wanted to relate it to life on the farm, where I grew up, and how it would have been handled there." 

Kaela wanted to also make it clear that her comments had no racist intent behind them. "Unfortunately, I did not realize that a tone of racism would dominate the response to what I intended to be a lighthearted defense of my husband," she wrote. "Regardless of the narrative that has been attached to my post, it was never intended to be related to race, or the disgusting hatred that created the basis for racism."

Do you spot the word "apologize" or "sorry" anywhere? Nope. Sherman seemed none too impressed at his press conference earlier today, referring to her explanation as a "BS apology." 

PerESPN's Sheil Kapadia:

"It's not surprising at all," Sherman said Wednesday. "This is a day and age, you've got the Ku Klux Klan running around. People say whatever they want, and there's very little consequence. For her to say something like that and then have a BS apology like she did, it's just the way of the world. I don't let it bother me. It's something I'm very used to. It's just the way people are, the way people were raised."

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