RadioOnFire.com - Ray Lewis is defending his gesture of solidarity with players, coaches, and personnel on teams across the NFL who protested the President's call for the league's owners to fire those who take a knee during the National Anthem this past weekend. Lewis has been under scrutiny for getting down on his knees after vowing that he'd never do such a thing while criticizing Colin Kaepernick over the Summer. During Tuesday night's (September 26) episode of Inside The NFL the former Baltimore Ravens star sought to set the record straight, stating, “I do too much with the military, with cops. I do way too much,” to dishonor them.
"Let's make sure. You hear people saying, 'Oh, he took a knee.' I absolutely did not take a knee," Lewis insisted. "You hear Shannon Sharpe going out there talking about I dropped on a knee, and, oh I sat in the chair next to him and said I would never do this. And I still didn't do it."
Lewis was persistent in claiming that his gesture was one that he displayed as a means of prayer and to honor God. According to the converted sports analyst, what he saw on the field was "chaos" and disarray, and thought to do what his mother taught him to do in such a circumstance when he decided on taking two knees to the ground.
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