Colin Kaepernick’s jersey is #1 National Football League seller
The San Francisco 49ers’ backup quarterback now officially has the top jersey sales in the whole league, per the company’s official merchandise website.
“I’d rather have young people who are engaged in the argument and trying to think through how they can be part of our democratic process than people who are just sitting on the sidelines and not paying attention at all”, he said.
Controversial 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick reportedly did not appear Sunday morning at a San Francisco church where he had been scheduled to speak about his recent protests of racial injustice. Lane plans to continue to sit going forward, but he doesn’t know if any of his Seattle Seahawks teammates will join him. “I don’t want to put no pressure on no one”, Lane said (via the Seattle Times). “I think there’s a long history of sports figures doing so”.
Barack Obama, the president of the United States, defended San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick saying that he was just exercising his “constitutional right” to protest any issues. “I’m doing it for me”.
“I don’t doubt his sincerity”.
Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during performances of the National Anthem has made him one of the most polarizing figures now playing in the NFL.
Speaking in China after a gathering of leaders of 20 leading economies, Obama said he had no doubt about Kaepernick’s sincerity but acknowledged that the protest was hard for some members of the military and law enforcement to swallow.
Kaepernick’s protest has dominated public discussion of the nation’s most popular sport this week, and his stance has been met with passionate condemnation and support. “So I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way”.
‘He’s generated more conversation around some topics that have to be talked about. “There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about”.
“It’s the least I can do”.