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# Lone Steelers Player Who Stood During the National Anthem: 'I Feel Embarrassed'

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_Published 2017-09-26. The Pittsburgh Steelers player who was the only member of the team to stand publicly during the national anthem on Sunday said he didn't intend to break from his teammates and now feels "embarrassed."_


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## Transcript

Every single time, you know, I see that picture of me standing by myself I feel embarrassed to a degree because again, like I said, unintentionally I left my teammates behind. It wasn't me steeping forward. I never planned to boycott the plan that the Steelers came up with. I just, Thought that there was to be some middle ground where I could stay in the tunnel. Nobody would see me and then afterwards I just wouldn't talk to the media like I do all the time. Regardless of this plan, very few players knew that I was going to the tunnel because I only asked the team leadership. And so because of that I didn't give them an opportunity to stand with me during the national anthem.

That is the very embarrassing part, on my end, in what transpires. Because when everyone sees an image of me standing by myself, who everybody think that the Steelers and the team are not behind me, and that's absolutely wrong. It's quite the opposite, actually, the entire team would have been out there with me, even the ones that wanted to take a knee Would've been there with me, had they known these extreme circumstances that. At Soldier Field, at the heat of the moment when I got soldiers, wounded veterans texting me that I have to be out there. Then I think everything would have been put aside from every single one of my teammates, no doubt.

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