Many viewers may have seen Colin Kaepernick at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
He wasn’t competing, but he was shaking hands and embracing players like Stephen Curry after winning their gold medal over France.
A feeling of patriotism must have come over him because now Colin Kaepernick wants to represent the country in the Olympics.
During the Summer Games in Paris, the former NFL quarterback, who last played in the league in 2016, stated that he would love to play flag football in Los Angeles in 2028 for Team USA.
He also stated he would try Javelin as well.
“If I could medal in any sport, it would be flag football in 2028 or the Javelin,” Kaepernick told Overtime at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris earlier this month.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback hasn’t played a single game of football since the end of the 2016 season after he immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deemed are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said in 2016. “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
Then-49ers head coach Chip Kelly told reporters at the time that Kaepernick’s decision not to stand during the national anthem was “his right as a citizen” and said, “It’s not my right to tell him not to do something.”
Colin Kaepernick was 28-years-old then. No one knew at the time that he would be playing in his final season in the league.
Colin Kaepernick Has Long Been Blackballed From The NFL
Even after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell publicly apologized to Colin Kaepernick, he has not been given a second chance to play in the league.
In 2016, Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the playing of the USA’s national anthem prior to an NFL game in a protest against police, and his career would end soon afterward.
No team has come close to trying to sign him.
