Jerry Rice causes controversy after wearing Popeyes helmet with chicken facemask
January 19, 2017 11:47am ESTJanuary 19, 2017 9:11am ESTAmerican Football, News, English, NFLSo Jerry Rice clearly didn't think about what he was doing here.
Jordan Heck Omnisport @jordanheckff
Updated at 11:47 a.m. ET
Jerry Rice was recently featured in a Popeyes commercial, and it did not go over very well.
The Hall of Fame receiver already got in trouble over the last few months when he said "All Lives Matter," which appeared to be a criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now he's caught people's attention again with this commercial, which featured him wearing a Popeyes football helmet with a rotating chicken wing on the facemask.
This obviously plays in to the "black people like fried chicken" stereotype, and it angered a lot of people. The comments on the YouTube page of the commercial are littered with people criticizing Rice for participating in this ad.
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"Jerry just set black people back 437 years," one user wrote. "Thanks, Jerry. We're slaves again."
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