Reaction from throughout the sports activities world poured in through the hours after the capturing at Donald Trump’s marketing campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Former NFL star and present web provocateur Antonio Brown was one of many sports activities figures who determined to weigh in.
“Cue up Many Men by 50 and we gonna win the presidency in a landslide F—ing Legend of the Decade,” Brown wrote on X, previously Twitter, on Saturday. Brown’s submit obtained greater than 6 million views on X as of Sunday afternoon.
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The outspoken Super Bowl champion beforehand expressed his help for the previous president.
“Yeah, I’ll endorse Trump,” Brown responded in an interview with OutKick when requested if he would again Trump through the upcoming presidential election.
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Brown has not appeared in an NFL recreation since 2021, when he was a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A shirtless Brown famously jogged to the stadium tunnel within the third quarter of a recreation in opposition to the New York Jets.
Another high-profile sports activities determine, four-time NBA champion coach and USA Basketball head coach Steve Kerr, additionally weighed in on what transpired on the political occasion. Kerr described the capturing as a “demoralizing day for our nation.”
Head coach Steve Kerr of the USA Basketball males’s staff talks to the media after the sport in opposition to the Canada Basketball males’s staff on July 10, 2024, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Mercedes Oliver/NBAE through Getty Images)
“It’s such a demoralizing day for our nation, and it is yet one more instance of not solely our political division but additionally gun tradition,” Kerr mentioned. “A 20-year-old with an AR-15 making an attempt to shoot the previous president. It’s arduous to course of every thing, and it is scary to consider the place this goes due to the problems that exist already within the nation. So, it is a horrible day.”
Kerr’s father, Malcolm, was assassinated whereas in Beirut in 1984. He has beforehand advocated for gun management.
Former President Trump is rushed offstage throughout a marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“This is a time the place we really feel very proud to signify our nation sporting USA on our chest, competing within the Olympics,” Kerr mentioned, per ESPN. “We’ve talked to the gamers about how necessary it’s to indicate the perfect model of us as human beings to signify our nation in a respectful, dignified method. It makes you wish to try this much more so, as a result of that is actually shameful for us to take a seat right here and take into consideration what occurred and what is going on on in our nation.”
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Kerr and the U.S. males’s nationwide staff are in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as they proceed preparations for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
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