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Former NFL kicker Jay Feely, who was born in Odessa and starred at Tampa Jesuit, has apologized for a photo he intended as a joke, showing him holding a gun as he poses with his daughter and her prom date.
"Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys," the CBS Sports analyst wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday night, showing him holding a gun at his side, with his daughter rolling her eyes on one side and her date grinning on the other side.
Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys pic.twitter.com/T5JRZQYq9e
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) April 22, 2018
The photo got more than 60,000 likes and 10,000 retweets, but there also was enough negative backlash to the photo, intended as a joke, that Feely went back on Twitter to apologize on Sunday.
"The prom picture I posted was obviously intended to be a joke," wrote the 41-year-old, who played 14 seasons in the NFL from 2001-14. "My Daughter has dated her boyfriend for over a year and they knew I was joking. I take gun safety seriously (the gun was not loaded and had no clip in) and I did not intend to be insensitive to that important issue."
Feely, who played for the Arizona Cardinals from 2010-13, now lists Arizona as his home on Twitter. He played for the Tampa Bay Storm in 2000 before beginning his NFL career.
