Ryan Clark regrets bringing Robert Griffin III’s spouse into issues.
Clark, 45, publicly apologized to Griffin, his former NFL teammate, on “The Pivot” podcast on Friday over feedback he’d made in regards to the former quarterback’s spouse, Grete, as their beef over the Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rivalry received private.
“She should not have been brought up in me trying to make a point about how having Black women close to you and the things that you can learn from them can help you approach how you speak to, and about them,” Clark mentioned mentioned of Grete, who’s white. “She didn’t need to be the illustration of that. I could speak positively about what they are without making the insinuations that it’s something that non-Black women don’t do well.”
Clark elaborated on his thought course of behind the preliminary video of the Griffin couple, discussing the feud between WNBA stars Reese and Clark.
“In the video that RG3 posted that I felt mocked Angel Reese, she [Grete] was in the background,” Clark mentioned. “I did not love the optics of RG3, a Black man, attacking and imitating, and what I felt insulting a black woman, with his wife in the background almost as a prop, and, in my opinion, applauding what I felt was a personal attack.”
Within the video that set off the ex-NFLers’ feud, Griffin claimed that Reese “hated” Caitlin Clark, and that was the rationale behind the Chicago ahead’s response to a flagrant foul by the Fever star of their season-opening matchup.
The ESPN analyst responded to Griffin, claiming that he’s not educated on what “Black women deal with” as a result of each his marriages have been to white girls — which Griffin mentioned crossed a line by bringing household into the argument.
“Ryan Clark personally attacking me and my family personally over a sports opinion is cowardly, spineless, and weak,” Griffin wrote. “Ryan Clark personally attacking me and my family personally over a sports opinion is a bad look for ESPN and for him as a man.”
Clark wrapped up his apology on the podcast by straight addressing Grete, who shares three daughters with Griffin.
“I was out of line, I was out of bounds, I apologize,” Clark mentioned. “To all of the people who don’t line RG3’s take or the way that he moves, or even if you just take my side in this conversation, leave his family alone.”
