Drew Brees apologizes for kneeling
controversy: I’m not the ‘enemy’
by
Justin Terranova
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/4/2020 9:57:26 AM
Drew Brees does not believe he is the “enemy.” The Saints quarterback apologized for his comments on Wednesday, when he told Yahoo Finance that he would never support players who kneeled during the national anthem. The comments were quickly rebuked by Brees’ teammates, others in the NFL, athletes like LeBron James and some New Orleans residents. “I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates, the City of New Orleans, the black community, NFL community and anyone I hurt with my comments (Wednesday). In speaking with some of you, it breaks my heart to know the pain I have caused. In an attempt to talk
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 6/4/2020 10:14:00 AM (No. 432021)
I’m so sad that he felt the need to apologize for his love of his country and its flag. He is entitled to his feelings and his opinion, whether others agree with him or not. Drew is a stand-up guy, and I’m sure he meant no disrespect to his teammates or to the Floyd family.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/4/2020 10:16:02 AM (No. 432025)
I knew it was only a matter of time before Brees would be forced to do this. It's Mao's Cultural Revolution all over again...but here. Anyone who doesn't kneel/bow before the official orthodoxy will be punished and maybe banished. In a few years, maybe beheaded.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snichols 6/4/2020 10:16:57 AM (No. 432026)
Pretty sad that Brees had to let his pr people frame an apology to protect the team. What he said originally was correct, but people who dumped on him for his words are locked into blm even though they have never faced any discrimination. Americans have expended trillions of $ to give minorities a "leg up" in all areas of American life, but they still feel bad, and one of their leaders is now asking for 14 trillion more. They need to get a life.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/4/2020 10:22:50 AM (No. 432035)
Drew, you didn't hurt anyone. It's a big show. It just a big virtue signalling show. None of these screaming, shreiking, insane people are in danger. There are not packs of white thugs hunting blacks in the streets. There are not millions of evil black hating police just looking for an opportunity to kill black people.
All this fake outrage and real hatred is based on fake news spread by a malicious communist media that apparently is bent on starting a race war because they a) hate President Trump and b) hate America. They desire a race war for the same reason Manson wanted Helter Skelter, power and control.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/4/2020 10:23:59 AM (No. 432037)
Brees should have anounced his retirement cause of the greif he causes and he couldn't face any other player ever again. I guarantee there hasn't been enough Depends produces to prevent the massive mess this would cause in NOLA.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/4/2020 10:25:07 AM (No. 432039)
Does no one have any backbone anymore?
Kudos to the OP for the FZ quote.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Boni 6/4/2020 10:25:24 AM (No. 432040)
This has to stop. Last week I unsubscribed from some Facebook pages that covered educational topics because the authors of those pages said they were going to hunt down and expose as racists to employers subscribers who did not agree with their opinion on the riots. Those who the author was going to hunt down had simply asked that the forum stayed focused on education and not on politics.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/4/2020 10:29:35 AM (No. 432045)
I dont watch sports, anymore. At one time, they represented the best of America. Now, they are British thugs, Billy's like those I fought in junior high and high school when they demanded my lunch money or my place in line. Didnt work then, and I wont let it work, now.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/4/2020 10:30:42 AM (No. 432047)
Goodbye NFL.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/4/2020 10:31:50 AM (No. 432049)
The reason he must apologize is because those big linemen who could prevent a career ending blind-side hit with a well placed block will be inclined to "not see him coming" and there goes Drew's playing days. This is nothing but thuggish behavior. When whitey did these things to coloreds it was awful, but now that coloreds, with assistance from Roger Goodell, it now appears to be "social justice" and branded, "OK" by the leftist media pigs.
The only problem with this is that we're a nation of patriots with a volunteer citizen militia, and this flies in the face of that. Societies don't like contradictions, so something must get changed. Since football is a dying sport that is totally dependent on cash to survive, it cannot win. Americans will turn away in even greater numbers, and begin subscribing to safer, less politicized sports, like hockey, rugby, golf, curling, etc. instead.
Message to Team Owners: You'd best FIRE Roger Goodell and end this corrosive anti-American thuggish behavior, while you still have the teams to run.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/4/2020 10:55:54 AM (No. 432079)
Well I'm gone.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/4/2020 10:58:11 AM (No. 432080)
FTA: "In speaking with some of you, it breaks my heart to know the pain I have caused." Pure garbage; no one's in any kind of pain. Someone's elevated People of Color (black people specifically) to be the new bullies and the social mores of our times require the rest of us to kneel down before them, literally. Have they no shame? Have we no pride? And why is is that no other minority group, regardless of skin color, has problems functioning, let alone flourishing, in the USA?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
spacer 6/4/2020 11:00:09 AM (No. 432084)
This is not America. People are being destroyed for their opinions through outright lies and social pressure. All built on subjugation and domination. Watched Steve King get trashed by the corrupt republican House leadership, Cheney and McCarthy, over a NYTs interview that was twisted to make him look like a racist or bigot. He never taped the interview but the NYTs did. They have yet to release the tape. His career is over. This has to stop.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
winmag 6/4/2020 11:28:32 AM (No. 432137)
Coward, I hope you enjoy spitting on the memory of your grandfathers who fought in WW2.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TXknitter 6/4/2020 11:35:16 AM (No. 432156)
No pride. No guts. Public figures falling like dominoes. I like Brees and yet I feel sorry that he will always remember he put his name to such a ridiculous PR statement.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
aasilver 6/4/2020 11:42:24 AM (No. 432171)
Great post #4. You've expressed it perfectly.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/4/2020 11:46:28 AM (No. 432177)
The NFL and all sports are now the editorial page. Please scrub sports off the sports page heading. I left has politicized and ruined everything. Now we have nothing in common, except hating each other's guts. Certainly, I will be practicing social distancing from the NFL, sports, and all Democrats, keeping them as far away as possible.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TLCary 6/4/2020 11:52:29 AM (No. 432199)
"I’m not the ‘enemy"... Of course you are, Drew hasn't figured that out?
Now he is acting like the white boys who gave the thumbs up to the thugs on parade that responded with rocks through his windows. A Jew cheering for a NAZI parade or a black man cheering for the Klan marching past with torches wouldn't make made either of them any safer. That's not how this works. The police that protect our communities aren't the enemy either. But Drew is only making a stand for himself now, not America. It won't work.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 6/4/2020 11:55:47 AM (No. 432211)
#12 - "...require the rest of us to kneel down before them, literally."
I saw a video a few nights ago on CTH's "Anger Games" thread, posted by a commentator. It has disturbed me for several days. I tried to find it again, but can't remember what night.
The video is being taken by a black SJW man in the middle of the day. It starts with his commentary as he walks down a NYC street. A white woman, dressed like she's going out for a "run", exits an apartment building and he engages her with a question. He begins to chastise her for "white privilege" and demands she atone by kneeling down in front of him. She knelt down in front of him! He continued to ask her questions about the level of her "wokeness" and she answers him! After a few minutes it finally dawns on her that she is being publicly humiliated and she gets off her knees, apologizes that she really must be going and walks down the street. The SJW "educated" blacks are using the old KKK tactics of subjugating another race.
As for me, I kneel only to my Lord Jesus Christ.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/4/2020 12:06:22 PM (No. 432239)
Dumbass panderer. It was the kneelers who killed the NFL. Think it isn't dead? Why are the numbers of viewers and ticket sales so secret? I haven't watched a game since Kaepernick pulled his un-American stunt and never will again.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NYbob 6/4/2020 12:18:44 PM (No. 432258)
Turns out NFL football players aren't so tough after all. A league of juiced up morons.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/4/2020 12:24:11 PM (No. 432267)
I used to respect Brees for all he's done for New Orleans, but that's gone now. As the saying goes, "He's dead to me, now!"
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
tennisbum 6/4/2020 12:26:10 PM (No. 432270)
Sorry that Drew didn't have the balls to stand for his opinion but caved to black agenda.
The slogan Black Lives Matter is everywhere yet no one in the media will ever ask the question....do Black Lives Really Matter or only certain black lives when the circumstances help the agenda? In Chicago about 400 black lives each year are taken by other blacks in shootings. About the same number in Baltimore. Killings occur every day and especially at night with black on black shootings in most every major metro in the country. Look up the stats. Now, there is no protest, no riots, no looting, no pontification from the NAACP, SCLC and every other alphabet laden black organization. So, Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.. do Black Lives Really Matter or only those that enhance and highlight the agenda?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Smart11344 6/4/2020 12:51:06 PM (No. 432304)
He smells like a Drew Breeze.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Krause 6/4/2020 2:57:23 PM (No. 432446)
Drew should throw in the towel, he let a lot of air out of the Saints balloon. The players can have Kap take his place.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/4/2020 3:34:01 PM (No. 432479)
I am so sorry he apologized to the my way or the highway crowd.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
SALady 6/4/2020 9:44:47 PM (No. 432832)
Most conservatives and patriotic Americans quit watching the NFL several years ago.
So I guess all that is left for fans are the racist lie-beral thugs. So I guess Brees got pressured so that they don't lose what is left of their racist lie-beral thug fan base!!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/5/2020 12:47:03 AM (No. 432940)
RumbleHog (#10) you Nailed it.
I would add:
Remember that NFL (National Felons League) game where Brett Favre was playing for Minnesota and the so-called 'Saints' had a $10,000 bounty for the player that injured Favre badly enough so that he would have to leave the game? (and they DID!)
I would wager that some of 'the Boyz' gave Drew Brees 'the Word', that unless he grovels sufficiently to satisfy the 'Brothers', that his next NFL game will be his LAST.
Brees seems to me to be a good guy, but the organization for which he works... not just one franchise, but the whole thing, nationwide, that once had people one could look up to, has become.... how to say it?...... an enclave of greatly overpaid THUGS.
"National Felons League" says it pretty well.
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