REGGIE WHITE appeared on CNN's "Crossfire" last night
and discussed a number of issues, including his position on
rights for homosexuals and his new film production company.
White was asked if CBS Sports was telling the truth when,
after his controversial comments in March, they said they
never "finalized an agreement" with him for an analyst job
and that the network's personnel moves would not be based on
"influences from special interests groups." White: "No,
that is not correct." White said that CBS Sports President
SEAN MCMANUS "told me, my wife and my agent that the reason
they [were] backing down was because of the pressure that
they think that they might get from gay activist groups that
may picket outside CBS Sports." White went on to say that
he has "a contract, a standard contract that's sitting in my
agent's office right now. We agreed on numbers, how many
years that I would work there, how many years that it was
guaranteed. So all of it was agreed on. I would advise
anyone who is talking to CBS, they need to talk to Sean
McManus and stop talking to people who wasn't involved in
the negotiations." White, when asked if he thought CBS was
"putting out propaganda" about White: "No, I think CBS, the
people who are talking for Sean McManus are lying about it."
White said that his contract with Nike was still "in force,"
but that his contract with Campbell's Soup had expired.
White, on Campbell: "They decided they wanted to go another
way but it makes no difference to me" ("Crossfire," 6/16).
