LOSER!
Drew Brees has hung up his cleats after a record-shattering 20-year-career with the best one being when he led the long-suffering New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl title in 2010.
By the end of his illustrious career, it was clear that the 42-year-old was a shell of the player that he once was, coughing up three costly interceptions in his final game, an ugly 30-20 playoff loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an empty Mercedes Benz Superdome.
Once one of the most widely respected players in the NFL, Brees alienated fans when after he apologized to BLM for the following remarks: “I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.”
Brees’ defense of the flag and mild chastising of the disrespectful national anthem protests may have been rooted in his admiration for both of his grandfathers who defeated fascism in World War II only to see it emerge in the U.S. under the banner of social justice.
He was immediately thrown under the bus by black teammates Michael Thomas and Malcolm Jenkins and both he and his wife groveled and begged for forgiveness from the mob that will never be satisfied.
'I’m sorry it has taken this long to act and to participate in a meaningful way but I am your ally in this fight.'
Drew Brees apologizes.
(🎥: IG/drewbrees) pic.twitter.com/kxabDnDzu5
— theScore (@theScore) June 5, 2020
The apology came at a time when BLM was actively engaged in acts of domestic terrorism that featured the burning and looting of numerous major American cities, all with the seal of approval from Corporate America including the NFL.
At the time of his surrender to BLM, Brees also got into a public spat with then-President Donald J. Trump over the disrespectful national anthem protests the NFL had once again embraced.
Drew Brees answers President Trump: This is not an issue about the flag https://t.co/qRoGn1O86Y
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 6, 2020
From his since-deleted Twitter account, Trump tweeted:
“I am a big fan of Drew Brees. I think he’s truly one of the greatest quarterbacks, but he should not have taken back his original stance on honoring our magnificent American Flag,” the president wrote on Twitter.
“OLD GLORY is to be revered, cherished, and flown high … We should be standing up straight and tall, ideally with a salute, or a hand on heart. There are other things you can protest, but not our Great American Flag – NO KNEELING!”
The sniveling Brees quickly responded:
To @realdonaldtrump Through my ongoing conversations with friends, teammates, and leaders in the black community, I realize this is not an issue about the American flag. It has never been. We can no longer use the flag to turn people away or distract them from the real issues that face our black communities. We did this back in 2017, and regretfully I brought it back with my comments this week. We must stop talking about the flag and shift our attention to the real issues of systemic racial injustice, economic oppression, police brutality, and judicial & prison reform. We are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history! If not now, then when? We as a white community need to listen and learn from the pain and suffering of our black communities. We must acknowledge the problems, identify the solutions, and then put this into action. The black community cannot do it alone. This will require all of us.
Like the NFL as a whole, Brees’ bending of the knee to an anti-white Marxist mob that was at the time burning and looting major American cities alienated fans, some of who burned their No 9 jerseys out of disgust over the superstar’s squandering of his once impeccable reputation.
Truthfully, the suckup to BLM was vintage Brees who consistently crumbled under pressure, a major factor in the NFC Championship game loss to the Los Angeles Rams that Saints fans are still crying about being robbed by a pass interference penalty despite Brees’ poor play and his subsequent lame duck interception in overtime that effectively ended the game.
In fact, his last four seasons were capped off by miserable performances in the games that mattered most, capped off by the loss to Tom Brady’s Bucs.
BREES THROWS ANOTHER INT! 😲
(via @NFL)pic.twitter.com/zAHveHYioR
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) January 18, 2021
Brees has signed a contract with NBC to join the network’s broadcast team for the nationally televised Sunday night game but is he now sufficiently “woke” for the peacock to honor his end of the bargain or will he be canceled?