The Pivot podcast host Ryan Clark has heard the discourse about what Jonathan Owens said about wife Simone Biles on an episode of his show, and he is not here for it.
In a video posted on social media, Clark recounted the conversation he had with football safety, noting that he was telling the story of how he met Biles with so much love in his eyes, and now his joke about being the catch for the gymnast is being blown out of proportion.
“Every time they looked at one another, you can tell how beautiful [their meet] was to them,” he said. “But everyone has now twisted that and taken that and made it something negative. But what people haven’t done is watch the entire show.”
He explained that Owens talked about how Biles changed his life and how as soon as they met, it was history. They were immediately connected.
“So, what has happened is people sitting in their homes — whether married or unmarried — are now worried about this man and his relationship,” Clark continued, “instead of being happy for two people who are excited to be together, two people who support one another wholeheartedly.”
Instead of listening to the full story, he pointed out that people are picking apart one clip of it and asked, if Biles and Owens are happy together, why does anyone care about the joke the Green Bay Packers player made on a podcast?
“This is the couple that is following their own way, and they found their way to one another in a very unique fashion,” he concluded. “And just because you feel like he should be worshiping the gymnast, Simone Biles, doesn’t mean that you can’t respect that he’s in love with the woman Simone Biles.”
Clark’s comments come after Owens was receiving backlash for making a joke about how he didn’t pull Biles but rather she pulled him on an episode of The Pivot. He explained he didn’t know who she was when she won the Olympics, because he was in college at the time and didn’t have NBC to watch the competition. Not to mention, he was in football training that summer.
He went on to share that Biles reached out to him first on a dating app, and they began texting shortly after before meeting up in person. He admitted he was “afraid to commit” at first because of where he was in his life and thinking things were still pretty early on.
“But you know, it happens when you least expect it,” he said on the podcast. “When we hung out, we just hit it off instantly.”
