“You don’t protest against the flag and you don’t protest against this country who’s given you the opportunities to make a living playing a sport that you never thought would happen,” Ditka said. “So, I don’t want to hear all the crap.”
Ditka’s comments came after New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees initially said he would never agree with anyone disrespecting the flag, but after he received a ton of backlash from fans and players across the league, Brees changed his stance on the topic. Other athletes have voiced their opinions on the subject in light of recent events, sparked in large part by George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis earlier this year, Fox News reported.
Ditka has voiced opposition to the move since 2017, when he said on Westwood One’s Monday Night Football pregame show “there has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of.”
Ditka added that he doesn’t have the final say in these things but the former Chicago Bears head coach said these are his personal feelings on the matter.
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Clearly Ditka isn’t afraid to express how he really feels. A rare trait these days in the NFL but then again, anyone who did speak up previously was branded a racist by the mainstream media. I’m sure Ditka’s will suffer the same ridiculous accusations.
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