Andre Johnson considered skipping Texans Ring of Honor ceremony over McNair comments

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Last season, future Hall of Famer to enter the ' Ring of Honor.The honor was incredibly well-deserved. During his 12 seasons in Houston, Johnson racked up 1,012 catches, 13,597 receiving yards, and 64 receiving touchdowns, figures that ranked first, first, and 12th in the NFL during that time. Johnson also led the NFL in receptions and receiving yards twice each, and he was named to seven Pro Bowls and four All-Pro teams (two First Team) while with the Texans.But Johnson almost decided against attending the ceremony altogether. Last year, Texans owner Bob McNair, during a conversation Kevin Byard Jersey about whether or not the NFL should institute a policy calling for all players to stand for the national anthem, agreed with owner Jerry Jones that the NFL should institute such a policy. Why? "We can't have the inmates running the prison," he said.This angered Johnson, almost to the point where he declined to attend his own Steve McNair Jersey Ring of Honor ceremony. " , but I just didn't like it," Johnson said on former teammate podcast, 'What Now? with Arian Foster,' per the . "To know you did so much for a franchise and to have him come out and say something like that. At the end of the day, you don't make the money if we don't run it. If you take some Austin Johnson Jersey people off the street and put them in there, nobody's coming to watch that. It was real touchy with me. I even thought about not doing the ring ceremony."One of the best players in the franchise's history deciding he didn't want to attend his own induction into the Ring of Honor would have been a pretty embarra sing look for the Texans; but even though he decided to attend, that was not the end of the Texans' i sues with NFL players. Johnson, after all, was not the only player disconcerted with McNair's comments.As our Will Brinson noted when McNair stated last week that he now regretted the "inmates" comment (which he was not actually about players, but league executives), multiple Texans players, including star wideout , after hearing of McNair's comments; players from as a result of the comments; and McNair Adam Humphries Jersey was , even after which there . Given the staunch public position McNair has taken, it seems like this is an i sue that will continue to affect the Texans into the future.
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