During the first half of Sunday’s Super Bowl LV, Chiefs safety Tyrann Mathieu got into a heated exchange with Tom Brady.
Even in the moments after trash-talking exchange, Mathieu was visibly upset on the Chiefs sidelines. And on Monday, Mathieu said that Brady called him something that he “won’t repeat” in a now-deleted tweet.
ESPN would later report that Brady reached out to Mathieu to apologize in a lengthy text.
But still, the entire ordeal begged the question as to what exactly was said. And Michael Irvin — who evidently had access to the mic’d-up footage as part of Showtime’s Inside The NFL — wanted to make it clear that Brady didn’t direct racist language at Mathieu.
Irvin said:
“You’ll see it tonight. What everybody wants to hear, they’ll play some of that footage also — that battle between Tom Brady and Tyrann Mathieu and all of those things. That will be played. Absolutely. I’m gonna tell you this. I didn’t like that Tyrann Mathieu put that out like that. The way he put it out … It makes it sound as if — it makes people wanna know what he said. We’re curious as if he said the N-word. And he did not. Tom did not. I don’t even like that looming over this situation. We should clean that up someway, somehow.”
Now, the full, mic’d-up episode of Inside The NFL did air Tuesday night on Showtime, and the exchange oddly wasn’t included in the episode at all.
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It’s unclear why that was cut out because Irvin definitely seemed to think it would be included.
For now, we’ll have to wait and see if that mic’d-up footage ever gets released.
