Dan Sileo Fired for Tweet in Which He Promised to Pay Hurricane Players $1,000 Bounty Against FSU

Dan Sileo is a former Miami Hurricanes linebacker and now he’s a former WMEN 640 AM radio host. After the FSU game Sileo tweeted out that he’d pay $1,000 to any Miami Hurricanes player who took out Devonta Freeman with an injury during the possible rematch between the two teams in the ACC title game. This morning WMEN announced he was no longer with the station.

Here’s the offending tweet, which has since been deleted:

And here’s the statement from WMEN:

And here’s Sileo’s response:

Sileo also claims he’s been getting death threats, the school pressured the station to fire him, and that he is now in hiding and has hired personal security.

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