He may not have played a down of football in years, but leftists are still mooning for Colin Kaepernick, who burned down his own NFL career over his championing of radical left-wing politics and race-baiting.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback famously disrespected the flag by kneeling during the national anthem, an inspiration to other players who followed suit and leftists who didn’t know whether a football is pumped or stuffed. They were so inspired by his flagrantly un-American actions that they turned him into a modern-day civil rights hero.
Out of the league for nearly a decade after opting out of his contract and not being skilled enough to merit being worth the distraction with another team, Kaepernick still maintains a special place in the heart of one Washington Post columnist who penned a tribute to the ex-player hailing him as “the most relevant figure” at Super Bowl LX which took place in Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers home field.
The Super Bowl is being played in Colin Kaepernick’s former home stadium, at a societal moment that echoes the issues he forced football fans to confront nearly 10 years ago, after he kneeled during the national anthem before a 49ers game. https://t.co/TX2l7r7msx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 8, 2026
“The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is absent from it. The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol. The social issues swirling around America’s largest sporting spectacle carry distinct echoes of what prompted his actions and what led to his exile. And yet he remains outside the conversation and invisible within the confines of the NFL,” wrote the paper’s Adam Kilgore in the piece, which polishes the halo given to Kaepernick by his adoring media cheerleaders.
Last week, WaPo laid off nearly a third of its staff as owner Jeff Bezos was forced to dramatically downsize the once-venerable newspaper, which has suffered a steep decline in readership and has been hemorrhaging money since it went fully “woke” as a response to the Trump era, unveiling its ridiculous slogan “Democracy Dies In Darkness” after the 2016 election.
X users reacted to the Kaepernick hagiography with mockery, as well as the opinion that the cuts weren’t nearly deep enough.
Much of sports media is just crazy left wing propaganda masquerading as sports news. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Sports audiences overwhelmingly reject this content, but shutting down the sports department and having this article run two days later is just too perfect.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 8, 2026
In which a sports reporter at the Washington Post declares that “The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is” . . . Colin Kaepernick. They cannot fix themselves. They will not fix themselves. They are incorrigible, monomaniacal weirdos. https://t.co/sZRc6GxVT0
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 8, 2026
WashPo: “Why are we laying off 1/3 of our staff?”
Also WashPo: “It’s Super Bowl Sunday, so let’s ignore both teams stories and stuff a 10 year old story of a failed QB turned race baiter down your throats.”— Joshua Hartley (@JHartley2) February 8, 2026
Clearly not enough people were fired at WaPo.
— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) February 8, 2026
Posts like this are why my cats will miss your sports coverage in their litter box
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) February 8, 2026
This isn’t journalism. This is hackery. No wonder so many people got laid off. https://t.co/zpHFGLJLqM
— Elliott Hamilton (@EHamiltonEsq) February 8, 2026
@JeffBezos I found another one for you to fire 👆
— nic carter (@nic_carter) February 8, 2026
In addition to thumbing his nose at America with his national anthem protest, Kaepernick has smeared police as killers and slave patrols, and in a 2021 documentary for Netflix, he likened the NFL draft to a slave auction.
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“What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic,” he claimed. “Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you searching for any defect that might affect your performance.”
“No boundary respect,” Kaepernick said. “No dignity left intact.”
The oppressed martyr made more than $40 million during his abbreviated NFL career, and it could have been more had he not embraced being a self-styled race messiah.
The Super Bowl went on without Kaepernick with the Seattle Seahawks clobbering the overmatched New England Patriots 29-13 on Sunday.
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