'GameDay' attendee who raised over $1 million with sign apologizes for 'hurtful' tweets

A man who was spotted asking for beer money on ESPN's "College GameDay" broadcast has apologized for racist tweets that were uncovered by The Des Moines Register.

The Register reported that it uncovered two racist jokes in Carson King's previous tweets, noting that one compared black mothers to gorillas and another made light of black people killed in the Holocaust.

The tweets were from 2012, when King was 16 years old.

King told local NBC affiliate WHO 13 that a reporter for the Register contacted him after his initial appearance on "GameDay" went viral and resulted in more than $1 million being deposited in his Venmo account by strangers.