Colin Kaepernick’s recent remarks about comparing the NFL draft combine to the slave trade generated a lot of responses last week, many of them critical of the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback. Obviously, to any sane, normal, logical, and rational person, comparing the horrific institution of slavery to the billion-dollar athletic empire that is the NFL is laughable and unquestionably offensive. One such person is former NFL player Jack Brewer, who ripped the quarterback-turned-left-wing activist for making such a foolish comparison.

Brewer, who was a team captain in the NFL for the Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, and Philadelphia Eagles, called Kaepernick’s comments sad, while noting they were rife with hypocrisy.

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“I pray for Colin Kaepernick and anyone who supports his ideals and his way of thinking,” Brewer told the Washington Examiner. “At the end of the day, I think it’s an act. I can’t comprehend someone really believing what he says. Out of one side of his mouth, he compares professional football and the process it takes to play it to slavery, and out of the other side of his mouth, he says he wants to come back and play at 40 years old. I don’t understand it.”

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Kaepernick originally made the controversial (and arguably foolish) comments on his 2021 Netflix series, Colin in Black & White. 

“What they don’t want you to understand is what is being established is a power dynamic,” Kaepernick narrated in the 2021 series. “Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you, searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary........

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