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Seahawks QB Russell Wilson Details Racist Encounter at Restaurant in 2014

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson addressed a racist encounter he had with a man at a California restaurant in 2014 in a conference call with reporters Wednesday.

Wilson said an old white man told him "that's not for you" when he was waiting in line for breakfast.

"And I said, 'Huh? Excuse me?' I thought he was joking at first," Wilson said. "My back was kind of turned. I had just come off a Super Bowl and everything else, so if somebody is talking to me that way, you think about [a different] circumstance and how people talk to you.