49ers’ Kaepernick wears socks with cartoon cops as pigs

As Colin Kaepernick prepares to take the field for the first time since sitting through a playing of the national anthem in protest, a California congressman is speaking out in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers’ controversial quarterback. Obviously, this is a play on the derogatory term used towards those in law enforcement. They are put in place by the government.

Kaepernick is known for wearing socks with odd patterns on them, including wearing socks with cash and coins on them the day he signed his contract with the 49ers in June 2014.

A national debate over the protest has continued all week ahead of the San Francisco 49ers next preseason game, Thursday night against the San Diego Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium, where Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, for one, thinks Kaepernick will be roundly booed. “So that’s something that this country has to change”, Kaepernick said in an interview. “When I told my mom about this article, she cautioned me that ‘the last thing our country needed right now was more hate.’ As usual, she’s right”. Make those standards higher.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh criticized the 49ers organization and the National Football League earlier in the week for selectively allowing players to engage in activism when the message puts law enforcement in a bad light.

The heated conversation that Colin Kaepernick touched off with his decision to protest police brutality is still raging, nearly a week after it was noticed that he remains seated during the playing of the national anthem at games.

And how will the crowd react to whatever Kaepernick decides to do? It seems a little silly to be focusing on someone’s socks, but it’s a safe bet that everything Kaepernick says, does and wears will be scrutinized this season.

Colin Kaepernick took a stand against oppression.

CBSSports.com reports Kaepernick has been wearing his pig socks since at least August 10, weeks before the drama over the national anthem protest, or his anti-police brutality views, broke and people began paying attention.

One executive told Bleacher Report he hasn’t seen this kind of disdain for a player since Rae Carruth, the former Carolina Panthers wide receiver who hired a hitman to kill his pregnant girlfriend in November 1999.