{"id":419517,"date":"2011-05-06T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/06\/champion-drops-mendenhall-over-tweets-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:47:19","slug":"champion-drops-mendenhall-over-tweets-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/champion-drops-mendenhall-over-tweets-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion drops Mendenhall over tweets (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.7107180021\">\n<p>PITTSBURGH (AP)\u2014The Champion sports apparel company has ended its endorsement deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/pit\/\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> running back <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/8800\/\">Rashard Mendenhall<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/8800\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> over Twitter remarks the player made criticizing people for celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday that Champion \u201cstrongly disagreed\u201d with the tweets and ended a new four-year contract the player recently signed. Mendenhall has endorsed the company\u2019s products since entering the league in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Mendenhall on Monday questioned the public celebrations of bin Laden\u2019s death, and whether the World Trade Center towers were really brought down on Sept. 11, 2001, only by crashing two hijacked airliners into the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Mendenhall has since clarified his remarks by saying Americans were insulted when some people celebrated the terrorist attacks masterminded by bin Laden, and that others might view Americans celebrating bin Laden\u2019s death the same way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nfl\/SIG=12bb0p8g8\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news?slug=ap-steelers-mendenhallendorsement\" title=\"Champion drops Mendenhall over tweets (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champion drops Mendenhall over tweets (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> PITTSBURGH (AP)\u2014The Champion sports apparel company has ended its endorsement deal with Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall (notes) over Twitter remarks the player made criticizing people for celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday that Champion \u201cstrongly disagreed\u201d with the tweets and ended a new four-year contract the player recently signed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Champion drops Mendenhall over tweets (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/champion-drops-mendenhall-over-tweets-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Champion drops Mendenhall over tweets (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"PITTSBURGH (AP)\u2014The Champion sports apparel company has ended its endorsement deal with Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall (notes) over Twitter remarks the player made criticizing people for celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden. 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