New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees apologized Thursday for earlier comments about “disrespecting the flag,” saying he “completely missed the mark” and stands with the black community in the “fight against systemic racial injustice and police brutality.”
Brees’ apology on Instagram came one day after he gave an interview to Yahoo Finance and was asked how the NFL should respond to players kneeling during the national anthem following the ongoing protests.
“I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America,” Brees said in the interview. “… What I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States, I envision my two grandfathers, who fought for this country during World War II, one in the army, and one in the Marine Corps, both risking their lives to protect our country and to try to make our country and this world a better place.”
The national anthem, he said during the interview, “shows unity.”
“It shows that we are all in this together, we can all do better,” Brees said. “And that we are all part of the solution.”
In the Yahoo Finance interview, Brees also said, “God created us all equal and I think that we all have a responsibility to love each other and to respect each other.”
His remarks on the flag drew pushback from teammates and black leaders. The…
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