Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback who kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality, hasn’t been in the NFL since 2016.
Recently, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a video where the league apologized for not allowing players to protest, letting everyone know they now support it.
Former Vikings quarterback Brett Favre told TMZ that he thinks Kaepernick can’t be that far out of shape or that far out of touch with football to the point where he doesn’t deserve a shot. Here’s what else he said:
“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 told TMZ. “I’d assume that hero status will be stamped with Kaepernick as well.”
The Vikings have recently been listed as a team that should consider Kaepernick, by both former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart and The Athletic’s Mike Sando.
Based on his interview with TMZ, Favre clearly thinks Kaepernick hasn’t lost too much of his stride.
“He’s still young and hasn’t been hit in several years, so there’s no reason to think that he’s lost that much of a step,” Favre said about Kaepernick.
