While the Jaxson Dart-Abdul Carter discourse has run wild, Super Bowl champion Joe Theismann was unconcerned about the impact it could have on the locker room.Dart introduced President Donald Trump before his speech in Suffern, New York, on Friday, and New York Giants teammate Abdul Carter took issue with it. Theismann said that while players in a locker room have different opinions, the focus is on football, and that the Dart-Carter discourse won’t have any effect.”It doesn’t (have any effect). It’s going to be football. I mean, politics is one thing and sports is another, and we’re starting to see them cross over. People have different opinions of a lot of different things in a locker room,” Theismann told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”A locker room is like a giant family. It’s not 53 guys, it’s 80 guys because you’ve got practice squad people, you’ve got people in and out. So, everybody has a lot of different opinions. I think when it comes to football, guys focus on football.”While Dart and Carter seem to have different political opinions, they appeared to squash any potential rift when Carter posted to X in a since-deleted tweet that they were “good.””Me and JD6 are good! We spoke earlier as Men,” Carter wrote. “Y’all can keep y’all narratives.”Dart, 23, set the stage for Trump’s speech with a chant before welcoming the president onto the stage.”Big Blue Nation, it’s a pleasure to be here. I got to start this off with a ‘Go Big Blue,’” Dart said, and then led the chant for a few moments before proceeding to introduce Trump.”What an honor, what a privilege it is to be here, and without further ado, I’m grateful, I’m honored, I’m pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th president of the United States America, President Donald J. Trump.”Trump and Dart then shook hands on the stage before the 23-year-old departed.ABDUL CARTER DELETES CRITICISM OF TEAMMATE JAXSON DART EVEN AS NEW YORK RADIO HOST SHREDS HIM ON AIRCarter began the firestorm by reposting a video of Dart introducing Trump on X and captioning the tweet, “Thought this s— was AI, what we doing man.” He has since deleted the tweet.The discourse over Carter’s repost of Dart’s appearance with Trump was rampant on social media. Theismann called social media one of the worst things to happen to athletics.”If you like somebody, you like somebody. If you don’t like somebody, you don’t like somebody. Probably the worst thing that’s happened to athletics to a degree is social media. We’ve seen a lot of people just get cooked by it. I think everybody’s entitled to their own opinion, but I don’t see it affecting a locker room,” Theismann said.Theismann played in the NFL for 12 seasons, spending all of them with the then-Washington Redskins. He said politics were never brought up in the locker room.SUPER BOWL CHAMPION JEROME BETTIS HAS MESSAGE FOR JAXSON DART, ABDUL CARTER AFTER TRUMP RALLY CONTROVERSY”Never. We
Super Bowl champion Joe Theismann weighs impact of Jaxson Dart-Abdul Carter Trump controversy on locker room
