{"id":15212,"date":"2012-06-25T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2012-06-25T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:10:36","slug":"warren-sapp-apologizes-to-shockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15212","title":{"rendered":"Warren Sapp Apologizes To Shockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL star <strong>Warren Sapp<\/strong> said Friday he had apologized to <strong>Jeremy Shockey<\/strong> for publicly labeling him the \u201csnitch\u201d in the New Orleans Saints\u2019 bounty scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Boston\u2019s 98.5 The Sports Hub, <strong>Sapp<\/strong> said he bumped into <strong>Shockey<\/strong> at a Miami Heat game a week after he controversially outed the former Saints tight end as the whistleblower who prompted the league\u2019s investigation into the illegal payment program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sapp<\/strong> said he took the opportunity to pull <strong>Shockey<\/strong> aside, telling him, \u201c\u2018I apologize for putting it on the street level and making it derogatory towards you.\u2019\u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shockey<\/strong>, who played for New Orleans from 2008 to 2010, vehemently denied that he informed the league about the alleged bounty program, whereby Saints players were paid bonuses for injuring opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Executives at NFL Network, where <strong>Sapp<\/strong> works as an analyst, reportedly disciplined him for naming <strong>Shockey<\/strong> on the air, but allowed the former defensive tackle to keep his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL star Warren Sapp said Friday he had apologized to Jeremy Shockey for publicly labeling him the \u201csnitch\u201d in the New Orleans Saints\u2019 bounty scandal. Appearing on Boston\u2019s 98.5 The Sports Hub, Sapp said he bumped into Shockey at a Miami Heat game a week after he controversially outed the former Saints tight end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}