Cal McNair, the chairman and co-CEO of the Houston Texans was reportedly caught using an anti-Asian slur. This happened during a team golf outing in May. The NFL stumbled upon this in the investigation on the Washington Football Team.

NFL insider Mike Silver reported that McNair was speaking to over a hundred fans at the Houston Texans Foundation charity golf event. While he was apologizing for canceling the 2020 edition, McNair referred to COVID-19 as the “China virus” (via Bally Sports).

“I’m sorry that we couldn’t get together last year, because of the China virus,” McNair said. “Everyone gasped,” a person on hand for the event told Silver, “especially the people directly across from him.”

“He and (wife) Hannah seemed to think it was hilarious. It was dead silent.”

The joke was also made just after a few weeks after Hannah McNair visited an Asian community center.

Cal, who's been with the Texans from the very beginning, issued an apology for the incident.

“My comments at the event last May included an inappropriate choice of words,” McNair said in the statement released to Bally Sports. “I immediately apologized to people who approached me then and I apologize again now. I know how important it is to choose my words carefully.”

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