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Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach apologized for a COVID-19-related tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting a noose for her husband during the couple's self-quarantine.
"I sincerely regret if my choice of images in my tweets were found offensive," Leach tweeted. "I had no intention of offending anyone."
The meme contained the following caption: "After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf."
The tweet, which went live Wednesday, was deleted Thursday.
Leach, who routinely posts various memes on his Twitter account, received some criticism from current players.