Key Highlights
- Kaepernick was described in the story as Super Bowl LX’s "most relevant" figure despite the 49ers not making it and the subject of the story being out of football for nearly 10 years. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS. COM San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Eli Harold (58), quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) and free safety Eric Reid (35) kneel in protest during the playing of the national anthem before a NFL game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium on Oct.
- 6, 2016.
- (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports) "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," Adam Kilgore wrote of Kaepernick.
- "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." The story continued to assess Kaepernick’s legacy after he launched a kneeling protest against social injustice in the U. S.