The ugly war of words between former ESPN teammates Ryan Clark and Robert Griffin III has ended - we think - in an apology.
Last week Clark and the former Washington Redskins' star quarterback got into over the WNBA dust-up between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. Griffin declared that Reese "hates" Caitlin, and Ryan countered with a video accusing him of taking the position only because he's married to a white woman.
Yeah, it got personal.
Griffin, who hosts a podcast with his wife Grete, then called out Ryan for attacking his marriage and standing behind his opinion he claimed was based only on sports.
Let's be honest, the squabble between Griffin and Ryan was much more of a "fight" than the hard foul and yelling at each other by Caitlin and Angel.
Griffin seems to have "won" the episode, as this week Ryan issued an apology for bringing families into what should have been a civil sports debate.
“I felt that it was away from basketball, and because of the personal feelings I have about RGIII, I took a take that was personal to another person and made it personal to myself. I shouldn’t have done that,” Ryan said on The Pivot podcast. "I shouldn’t have brought his wife into an equation, even though, in my mind, before speaking about her, I processed as much as I possibly could to speak of her in a way that was positive, trying to make sure it only illustrated a point about the way that he approached Angel Reese. In that, in some ways, and to some people, I probably missed the mark."
Though apologizing for his part in the spat, Ryan didn't exactly extend an olive branch to Griffin.
“I have a lot of experience with RGIII. I know some things about him personally," Ryan said. "I’m not going to say that we are close. I’m not going to say that we are friends. But those things, already imprinted in my mind, those feelings, already things that have developed over our experiences together, over some things that he had said to me, done to me, probably some things I said to him, they played a part in how I felt."