NFL Network removes Michael Irvin from its Super Bowl coverage

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Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin will not be part of NFL Network’s Super Bowl coverage for the rest of the week after he had what he described as a brief encounter with a woman at a hotel Sunday in Arizona.

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“Michael Irvin will not be part of NFL Network’s Super Bowl LVII week coverage,” NFL Network spokesman Alex Riethmiller said in a statement to The Washington Post.

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rvin’s status with the network beyond this week is unclear.

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Irvin’s scheduled appearance Friday as a guest on ESPN’s “First Take” also was canceled.

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The exact nature of the encounter is unknown, and a Glendale police spokesperson told The Post on Wednesday there “have been no police reports made or received by local law enforcement agencies regarding any crimes.”

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Irvin described his side of the story during an interview with a Dallas radio station Wednesday, saying NFL Network officials asked him Monday to change hotels after the encounter.

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“Sunday night … when I came into the hotel, they asked what I did and I said, ‘I just went straight to the room,’ ” Irvin told the “Shan & RJ” show on 105.3 the Fan.

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But I guess I had met somebody in the lobby. Talked to somebody in the lobby for about a minute, and then I went to my room. And then after I got up there, they said they had to move me in the hotel. I said, ‘Move me in the hotel for what?’

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“So they moved my hotel, and I said: ‘What’s going on, guys? What’s happening? Why are we moving hotels?’

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“They said, ‘Well, last night you walked in, you talked to somebody.’ I said: ‘I didn’t talk to anybody. I went straight to the room.’ And then they showed it on camera that I did talk to somebody.

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I talked to this girl for about a minute. I don’t know what — they didn’t show it to me. They told it to me. I didn’t see it. But that’s why they moved me, because I guess the girl said I said something to her within that minute that we talked, and so they moved me.

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“We shook hands. Then I left. … That’s all I know.”

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Irvin, who joined NFL Network in 2009, last appeared on the network during Monday’s coverage of Super Bowl opening night.

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