“WDAE would like to apologize for Dan Sileo’s ill-chosen on-air remarks earlier this week. He absolutely meant no disrespect to the players and he is sincerely embarrassed and upset that his off-the-cuff remarks might be tgaken as hateful, disrespectful, or in any way racists,” the statement read. “Dan and the station regret any offense to the playes; to the Bucs organization; and to the people of the Tampa Bay community.”
