The Daily Observer London Desk: Reporter- Judith Benjamin
After accusing New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll of throwing a wild party the night before his team’s 40-0 Week 1 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, ESPN radio host Michael Kay is now walking back the statement.
As Kay has since learned, the wild celebration turned out to be a birthday party for Daboll’s six-year-old son.
‘I need to make a heartfelt apology to Brian Daboll,’ Kay said Tuesday. ‘I found out after, and I should have done more work, I’m a complete ass for doing this, and I feel sorry for any pain I might have caused that family by insinuating anything.
‘I found out later it was a party for his six-year-old, it was a birthday party. I should have dug deeper and I didn’t think it was going to be a big thing but it became sort of a big thing last night and I want to cut it off at the legs and say that is on me and I was irresponsible because I didn’t check it out further and I apologize to anybody that was impacted by my flippant remark about a party at his house.
‘I feel like a complete idiot and I’m really, really sorry to Brian Daboll, Brian Daboll’s family and the Giants as well, they’ve always been very fair with us. I am really, really apologetic.’
Michael Kay (left) has revealed that Brian Daboll’s ‘huge party’ was for his six-year-old son
Kay, a New York Giants announcer with an ESPN radio show, initially blamed the party for the team’s blowout loss on Sunday night.
‘I have it on good authority that Brian Daboll had a huge party at his house on Saturday night. This is truth’ Kay said Monday. ‘You’re not throwing a big party if you’re about to get your butt kicked by the Cowboys.
‘So, this took everybody by surprise and that’s what’s scary. Nobody expected this sort of blowout. They thought that they were going to play with them and they didn’t even show up.
‘That scares me guys. That shows me that they don’t even know their own team. There’s no way the head coach of a team throws a huge party like that the night before the opener if they think that there’s a chance that they’re going to get blown out. They just don’t do that.’
But that night, Kay would learn that the part was, in fact, for Daboll’s six-year-old son. What’s more, the party wasn’t at night, but on Saturday afternoon.
‘I can’t put myself out anymore than this because this was a huge mistake,’ Kay admitted. ‘That’s not the show we are, we’re not a sensationalistic show and I just made a comment not thinking it would be that big of a deal, and if it was a big deal I want to apologize and pull the rug out from under it.’
