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"NBC interrupted its broadcast of the much-anticipated Sunday Night Football matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and New England Patriots early in the first quarter to cut to President Obama's speech addressing the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn. \nWatching the game on TV, University of North Alabama football player Bradley Patterson didn't appreciate the programming change and voiced his displeasure with an ugly, racist tweet about Obama. \n\"Take that n***** off the tv, we wanna watch football!\" Patterson wrote, according to multiple reports, although his account has since been deleted. \nNorth Alabama was quick to take action, with Lions athletic director Mark Linder posting this tweet later on Sunday evening: \n\nThx 2 everyone who brought the inappropriate tweet to our attention. @unaathletics does not condone. He is no longer a member of the team.\n\u2014 Mark Linder (@UNAAthletics) December 17, 2012\n\nPatterson was a little-used reserve on the football squad, so it's not like North Alabama made a big competitive sacrifice by giving him the boot. Nevertheless, the school does deserve credit for acting so quickly and using social media to notify fans that the situation had been handled. \nWhile Patterson's racist tweet got him kicked off the football team, he was far from the only user to post ugly Twitter messages about Obama's speech interrupting the game. Several tweeters posted similarly racist complaints bemoaning the temporary loss of football programming. \nTwenty children and eight adults were killed in the Newtown massacre. \nImage credit: Flickr, The White House\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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