Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson has apologized for making an “insensitive comment” during a live interview on “Thursday Night Football.”<\/p>\n
Following the Falcons’ 29-28 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night, Robinson was interviewed on “TNF Nightcap,” Amazon Prime Video’s postgame show. <\/p>\n
During the interview, alongside Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins and tight end Kyle Pitts, analyst Richard Sherman addressed Robinson’s strong performance during a specific play.<\/p>\n
“They threw it to you in the backfield, you made the first one miss, then legged three people,” Sherman said. “And I said, \u2018This boy grew up in the backyard.'”<\/p>\n
Robinson laughed and said, “Smear the queer, that\u2019s what we do. Smear the queer.” <\/p>\n
Analyst and former NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick jumped in and corrected Robinson by referring to the game as “kill the carrier” instead. <\/p>\n
The game, which has several names, is most commonly a playground variation of football where the goal is to tackle the person carrying the ball before they score.<\/p>\n
Robinson later apologized for his comments on social media. <\/p>\n
“Hey everyone I want to apologize for the insensitive comment I made in the broadcast, it was a football game we used to play as a kid but that\u2019s not an excuse,” he wrote. <\/p>\n
“I recognize the mistake and make sure to do better in the future,” Robinson said. “It was not reflective of my beliefs and I am so sorry to those I offended seriously!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson has apologized for making an “insensitive comment” during a live interview on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-345151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}