Two Louisville wide receivers are asking for a stadium name change after Papa John's owner John Schnatter admitted to using a racial slur. The Cardinals play in Papa John's Cardinal Stadium and wide receivers Jaylen Smith and Seth Dawkins took to Twitter to voice their thoughts on the name.
However, Schnatter owns the stadium's naming rights and not Papa John's, according to the Louisville Courier Journal. On Wednesday, Schnatter admitted to using a racial slur during a May conference call and released a statement to apologize.
"News reports attributing the use of inappropriate and hurtful language to me during a media training session regarding race are true," Schnatter said in a statement on Wednesday.