Steve Lyons Reacts To Firing

Former Fox broadcaster Steve Lyons reacts to his comments that led to his demise with Fox Sports.

Saying he "believes people are taking a lot of liberty with what I said," Lyons said he was making a "joke that had nothing to do with race;" that it's a "real stretch" to find racism in the on-air exchange that cost him his job, "and anybody who knows me knows it was the furthest from anything racist."

"My joke was about a wallet. It had nothing to do with race. We were all laughing at the time. I'm being painted as a victimizer of Lou. At dinner later (with Fox announcers and production staffers), we all thought it was one of our better exchanges." (Sunday, Fox spokesman Dan Bell declined to respond to any of Lyons' comments.)

But Lyons, who joined Fox in 1996, said "the inference" he said something racist "is disturbing. It's my career we're talking about. I need to go find myself a job. That statement is going to follow me around. That's unfair."

Is he apologizing? "Absolutely. I'm happy to apologize to anybody who took it that way. But it seems like a real stretch to lose your job over. It's hard to understand."


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