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Jeremy Mauss

Daily Hike: Brett Favre Compares Colin Kaepernick To Pat Tillman


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Brett Favre Compares Colin Kapernick To Pat Tillman

ESPN has a series of the best NFL talent from every conference and the Group of 5 is lumped together, but there is some serious Mountain West talent. [ESPN]

Where is Steve Addazio recruiting his talent? [Coloradoan]

New Colorado State head coach is reaching out beyond Colorado to build his football team.

“Our success will be based off of Colorado, Texas, and California and the sprinkling of some other very targeted areas.”

Father’s Day smack talk [Twitter]

Updated Mountain West odds with Wyoming, Nevada good value bets [Sports Books USA]

Brett Favre compares Colin Kapernick to Pat Tillman [TMZ Sports]

Hall of Fame QB Favre calls the former Nevada quarterback a hero like the late Pat Tillman who left the NFL after 9/11 to join the Army Rangers.

“I can only think of — right off the top of my head — Pat Tillman’s another guy who did something similar, and we regard him as a hero,” Favre said. “So I’d assume that hero status will be stamped with Kaepernick as well.”

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