Colin Kaepernick, Ten Years After Taking a Knee
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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. You know, controversies in the world of sports have been making headlines all year. For months now, the WNBA has been drawn into the debate about
Trans athletes in sports, even though there isn't a single trans player currently in the league, and the NBA is still reeling from a salary cap scandal, broken by the reporter Pablo Torre, that's led to the billionaire Los Angeles Clipper owner Steve Ballmer being suspended from the sport for an entire year. But a decade ago, the biggest controversy in sports, and one that we're still Still thinking about, surrounded just one athlete, Colin Kaepernick. Is Kaepernick still looking for a job because of his stance on social issues and is kneeling for the national anthem last year? Without a doubt, I think this is a big image blow for the NFL.
They have to figure out what side of the fence they are on. They're supporting their players on this. Kaepernick had a stunning rise as an NFL star. In 2012, he won the starting quarterback job for the San Francisco 49ers and then led the team all the way to the Super Bowl, a game that they narrowly lost. On the field, Kaepernick was a dynamic dual threat.
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