"Falcons wide receiver Roddy White apologized on Thursday to the city of New Orleans and any fans he may have offended with his "tweets" on twitter.com. Click here.

"I'm sorry," White said. "I wasn't trying to offend anybody about that stuff, especially the city of New Orleans."

White was caught off guard by his tweets going viral over the internet.

"Some people just take things out of context," White said. "I just felt like that's not what I was aiming for, to say anything about the city. They are the defending world champs."

White said he wasn't admonished for the tweets by head coach Mike Smith."