Drew Brees announces Saints’ plans for national anthem
New Orleans Saints veteran leaders Drew Brees and Cameron Jordan have spent some time this week discussing a way for their team to show solidarity during the national anthem in Week 4, and they have come up with a plan.
On Friday morning, Brees wrote on Twitter that the Saints plan to kneel as a team prior to the playing of the national anthem and stand when the song begins.
As a way to show respect to all, our #Saints team will kneel in solidarity prior to the national anthem & stand together during the anthem.
— Drew Brees (@drewbrees) September 29, 2017
Earlier in the week, Brees reiterated his stance that he does not agree with sitting or kneeling during the anthem. However, he also condemned Donald Trump’s comments urging NFL owners to fire any “son of a b—” who kneels.
“If the protest becomes we’re going to sit down or kneel or not show respect to the flag of the United States of America and everything it symbolizes and everything it stands for, everything our country has stood for to get to this point, I do not agree with that,” Brees said, per Herbie Teope of The Times-Picayune. “I feel like that is a unifying thing.
“I disagree with what the President said and how he said it. I think it’s very unbecoming of the office of the President of the United States to talk like that, to the great people like that, and, obviously, he’s disappointing a lot of people.”
The Saints will take on the Miami Dolphins in London this weekend, so whatever the two teams do before and during the national anthem will make international headlines. From the way Brees describes it, his team will be taking a page out of the Dallas Cowboys’ book.
