D-Bowe Says “I Was Misquoted”

From the Truman Sports Complex

Saying he doesn’t even remember doing the interview with ESPN the Magazine, Chiefs WR Dwayne Bowe said Thursday that he was misquoted by the writer in comments he made about teammates importing female companionship on a road trip in 2007.

“My words were taken out of context,” Bowe said after an OTA practice. “The subject isn’t something that I would even be talking about. My words were distorted.

‘I was definitely misquoted.”

However, an editor at ESPN the Magazine has told the Pitch newspaper that they have Bowe’s comments on tape and would be willing to play the tape for anybody with a vested interest in the situation.

“We didn’t cut out anything that was significant or that changed the nature of the comments,” ESPN editor
Gary Belsky told the Pitch. “We have no reason not to believe it.”

According to the magazine Bowe said on a Chiefs trip to San Diego in September 2007, teammates had gotten on social networking sites on the internet and arranged for women to meet them at the team’s hotel in La Jolla. He was quoted as saying the there were women in every room and that they had taken over the entire top floor of the Hyatt.

Until Thursday, Bowe had kept a low profile and was unavailable for comment on the story. He said that he talked to a number of his teammates and former teammates in the last week.

“My teammates know that is not me,” Bowe said. “They’ve got my back.”

Bowe did not deal in depth with his answers saying several times that he had put the controversy behind him.

He said he was misquoted in an interview he can’t remember doing. If that’s the case, how does he know he was misquoted? “I’m just not going to go back into that,” Bowe said. “I’m all football now. If you want to talk about football, I’m open to any football questions. You can’t look back to yesterday.”