UPDATE: Stamps’ Maurice Price in hot water, after tweet about gay NFL player

CALGARY- The Calgary Stampeders apologized on Monday, following controversial statements made by one of their players.

Maurice Price, a wide receiver with the team, posted the following tweet after the first openly gay player was drafted into the NFL on Saturday.

https://twitter.com/StoriesFrom17th/status/466003742823686144

That sparked a backlash on Twitter, including from his own team.

On Monday afternoon, the following response was posted on the Calgary Stampeders’ Twitter page.

On Tuesday, the CFL released a statement on the incident via Twitter, from Commissioner Mark Cohen:

The comments were made on a twitter account managed by the CFL’s VP of Communications Matt Maychak and Director of Communications Jamie Dykstra.

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This isn’t the first time the organization has dealt with social media fallout. Back in 2012, Calgary Stampeders slotback Nik Lewis got into hot water for tweeting: “I just bought O.J.’s gloves on EBay. Now all I need is a white girl named Nicole #MaybeALittleToFar.”