Former Colorado safety Shilo Sanders has caught a lot of heat this week for some rather head-turning remarks he made to Cleveland sports reporter Mary Kay Cabot. While many fans are dismissing his "sandwich" comment as a nothingburger, Emmanuel Acho is not.
On the latest episode of his Speakeasy show, Acho criticized Sanders for his "make a sandwich" remark, declaring that the former safety "crossed the line." He said that while Sanders might be publicly denying that his comment was misogynistic, it doesn't make it any less so.
"Shilo Sanders crossed the line with the Mary Kay Cabot 'make me a sandwich' comment. Just because he doesn’t think it’s misogynistic doesn’t make it any less grossly misogynistic," Acho wrote on X.
Fan Response
NFL fans, specifically fans of Sanders, were not impressed by Acho's efforts to lecture him though. Many took to Acho's social media accounts and remarked that Sanders' comment was not inappropriate and that people are taking them too far out of context or too seriously.
"He didn’t say 'Make me a sandwich' he said 'Make a sandwich.' Something similar to go touch grass. Acho has fallen so far from grace. Used to be a joy to see his intelligent takes," one user remarked on X.
"Shilo was absolutely right Cabot has been spreading lies for a year. Just because you have a forum are a journalist or a podcast doesn’t make you exempt from having people respond how they would like. Toughen up. She should be more professional and that was his point," wrote another.
"He should’ve taken a better approach yes.. however reporting something as breaking news that contradicts everything the head coach and GM just said publicly a couple days ago is sleazy, and starving for clicks. Gotta have context," a third asserted.
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The finer details of whether this particular action from Sanders was valid or not can be debated ad nauseum. The far simpler solution to preventing something like this from happening again is to simply not be confrontational with reporters.
The less you say, the less can be used against you in the court of public opinion.
