Marking his eight years unemployed and out of professional football, Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL quarterback, pledged that he is ‘staging’ a comeback and getting ‘ready for the Olympics.”
Kaepernick, who once played with the San Francisco 49ers, lost the contract after staging nuisance and disrespect to the country that had raised him.
In an interview with Sky Sports, the former quarterback refuses to accept that the league no longer wants him to play as he quipped, “Hopefully, we’ll be out here (Olympics).”
“We’re going to work on some things and see if we can make it in there, but we’d love to be out there.”
However, it seems Kaepernick still has some fans out there, as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers and the former quarterback’s coach, Jim Harbaugh, wants him to be part of his coaching staff.
Harbaugh told USA Today Sports that he spoke with Kaepernick early this year about joining the Chargers “in a nonplaying capacity.”
“He’s considering it. He was out of the country. He said he was going to get back to me. We haven’t reconnected since then. That was early, early in the year.”
“If that was ever the path he was to take, I think that would be tremendous.”
“He’d be a tremendous coach if that’s the path he chose,” Harbaugh commented.
But it looks like the quarterback is still dead set with the goal of being on the field.
An interview with the Chargers’ coach last Thursday clarified that he won’t be in any of the staff or players’ roster.
“I love Colin, but he’s not going to be on the coaching staff, which is set for this year. And he’s not going to be playing on the roster either.”
Harbaugh was always a fan of the cop-hating unemployed football player, and he has long been engaging him to try coaching.
“I have thought that for a long time. Just the respect that I have for the football mind he has and the football man that he is.”
Kaepernick is turning 37 in November, and he has not played in the NFL since January 1, 2017, after he began kneeling on the sideline at matchups during the national anthem to assert his woke principle and protest against the police.
For Harbaugh, Kaepernick is a hero.
“I see him as a hero,” Harbaugh said. “Heroes get no days off. And he’s being a hero right now, and he is not getting any days off.”
“It’s not for me to choose what path he takes. That’s his decision.”
