The New York Jets are facing backlash after a social media post appeared to reference a P. Diddy track.
The moment came as the NFL free agency negotiating window opened on Monday (March 9).
According to the league, this period is when teams are ‘permitted to contact and negotiate with the certified agents of players’ who will become ‘unrestricted free agents’ when their 2025 contracts expire on Wednesday (March 11).
To mark the start of the window, the Jets’ social media team posted on X (formerly Twitter).
The post used a meme featuring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, wearing headphones with his eyes closed. The image had been edited to include a New York Jets cap, suggesting he was locked in and emotionally immersed in what he was listening to.
The follow-up image showed a phone screen with search results for songs called “Coming Home,” including the Diddy and Skylar Grey version featuring the well-known lyric: “I’m coming home/ Tell the world I’m coming home.”
Other results on the screen included the solo Skyler Gray version, ‘Coming Home – Part II,’ Leon Bridges’ “Coming Home,” and Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home.’
Viewers quickly noticed Diddy’s name in the search results and criticized the choice.
“Oh nah,” one X user said, after zooming in on Diddy’s name.
“Ok I love the idea,” another wrote about the meme format, before adding: “But really, nobody proofread the Diddy song before this was posted?”
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“Maybe don’t post a Diddy song lmao” a third commented, while another added: “Cmon now Jets you can’t be listening to Diddy.”
“Y’all could’ve cropped that top song out,” someone else suggested.
“Social team getting fired,” another person quipped.
Diddy has been in the headlines in recent years following his arrest in September 2024 on multiple charges, including sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and racketeering conspiracy.
He was ultimately found guilty on two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution, while being acquitted of the remaining charges.
Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Combs to 50 months in prison, and he has been serving the term at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Facility in New Jersey.
More recently, the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ public website indicated that his release date has been moved up, as first reported by Page Six.
He had been scheduled for release on June 4, 2028, but is now expected to be freed on April 25, 2028, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.