10 years later, we're still talking about Colin Kaepernick — because he conquered the NFL



Ten years after Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest ignited one of the biggest cultural battles in sports history, the former NFL quarterback says he still believes the league has blackballed him.

But according to BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock, that claim misses the bigger story.

“Ten years later, Colin Kaepernick just told the country he won,” Whitlock says.

“He sat with NBC News and said he no longer watches the NFL because the league is actively blackballing him and the men who knelt with him. He watches college football now. That is not a quarterback begging for a clipboard; that is a man who knows the institution already belongs to him,” he explains.

“A three-minute kneel during the national anthem has been stretched into game-long signs in every NFL stadium. ‘End racism,’ ‘stop hate,’” he continues, noting that it’s not going away any time soon.


“For the 2026 season, the seventh straight year of the stencil, the league will paint those slogans in the grass and on the helmets again. Marxist liturgy as field decoration. [Kaepernick] never needed another snap. He needed the building to preach after he left the huddle,” he says.

And the “diversity score cards" within the league — like the male cheerleaders who went viral not too long ago — still “sit in the front office as if they were defensive schemes.”

“The NFL did not stumble into this; it was discipled into it. [Kaepernick] watches college football and accuses the NFL of blackballing him,” Whitlock says.

“He can afford the sneer. He is one of America’s greatest Trojan horses. He never recaptured the quarterback job. He captured the institution,” he continues. “The NFL thought it was containing a protest. It was being converted by one.”

“What began as a sideline gesture now owns the grass, the hiring, and the moral vocabulary of Sunday. The loudest league in the country is still kneeling. The quietest quarterback already cashed the cultural check,” he adds.

And while Kaepernick is often treated as a “failed activist,” that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

“Ten years later, we are still talking about Colin Kaepernick. … That is a cultural victory that never required a comeback, a tryout, or another down. He sacrificed a fading quarterback career and got a league to carry his flag,” Whitlock says.

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The truth about child concussions, straight from an NFL trainer: 'It's not worth it'



An NFL trainer warns that new data is revealing more about concussions than was ever known before.

Myths surrounding concussion assessment and recovery still persist to this day, and they can stand in the way of getting proper treatment.

'It is not necessarily an emergency situation.'

Kayla Parker, an athletic trainer with the Denver Broncos and official trainer of the NFL team's cheerleaders, wants parents to know that risking brain trauma to participate in youth athletics is going to have more negative lingering effects than actually sitting out to recover.

Parker spoke with Blaze News and revealed that a lot of discussion and amateur analysis surrounding head injuries can be much further off the mark than some may realize.

"If you even suspect you have a concussion, sit it out. It's not worth it," Parker advised.

If a child, or adult, is indeed concussed and gets hit a second time within a 48-hour window, Parker warns that the brain can suffer from "second-impact syndrome," which could potentially result in death.

The faster an athlete is removed from activity following a suspected concussion, the faster he typically comes back, Parker explained.

Concussion myths

It's not always an emergency.

"If you suspect your kiddo or yourself have a concussion, it is not necessarily an emergency situation. You don't need to rush off to the emergency room," the trainer detailed.

A typical concussion protocol in an emergency room will include a CT scan, but that is to rule out a possible brain bleed.

"Outside of that, they don't have anything else for them," Parker said.

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Another long-held myth is to never let a concussed person fall asleep.

"That is definitely a myth," Parker said in response. "When we suspect a concussion, they are absolutely allowed to go to sleep."

At the same time, Parker said that a loss of consciousness is actually only prevalent in around 10% of concussions. Moreover, it is not an indication of seriousness either.

"It really doesn't dictate how fast they're going to come back from that concussion. We've seen those athletes come back faster than the ones that never lost consciousness at all. It's going to be the previous medical history that's really going to dictate how well they do coming back from the concussion."

With concussion history and existing medical conditions as main drivers of ongoing health problems in many professional athletes, Parker said concussion prevention is the obvious goal for both kids and adults. However, "There is nothing that will 100% prevent a concussion."

Another myth, one perpetuated in recent years, is that increased padding on the outside of a football helmet can help reduce concussions. This has been seen with the use of Guardian Caps.

But this is giving a "false sense of security," the trainer said.

Chiefly, Parker added, "We are very concerned about preventing brain bleeds and skull fractures, and that is truly what helmets were originally designed to do."

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New knowledge

Parker's work with the Broncos cheer team has expanded her depth of knowledge for different types of injuries. In that same vein, an important part of the job for the trainer is keeping up with new data and information surrounding concussions.

With that has come a new understanding of how young athletes are growing up and the possible effects screen time is having on their brain.

Vision problems have been consistently tracked as part of head trauma recovery, with recent studies — cited by Parker — suggesting that prolonged screen exposure has been "associated with symptoms such as visual fatigue, dizziness, and imbalance."

When asked directly if excessive screen use can make a person more susceptible to a concussion, Parker replied:

"That is yes, that's essentially what I'm saying. ... It is something that they're currently studying."

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NFL makes social justice announcement fans probably aren't going to like



With the start of the NFL season barely a week away, fans are clamoring for news about their team's starting quarterback or star receiver.

Instead, viewers are getting what is likely to feel like another puzzling, unnecessary confirmation about the upcoming season.

'The only thing more powerful than hate is love.'

It's been a decade since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback turned activist Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, causing nationwide controversy.

Kaepernick's argument that the United States "oppresses black people" had a monstrous effect on the league, pushing the NFL into activism from seemingly every angle.

The death of George Floyd and the 2020 Summer of Love riots inspired more political messaging in the NFL — in its stadiums, on player equipment, and in front offices.

Now, the NFL has confirmed it will continue its league-wide platitudes for yet another season, specifically confirming its social justice messaging will remain on fields and player helmets.

"We are continuing with both the end zone stencils and helmet decals this season," an NFL spokeswoman told Front Office Sports.

This program typically manifests in messages like "End Racism."

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According to the report, the NFL will also carry over its use of the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the black national anthem, before the Super Bowl and other events. It has been used in season openers since 2020, as well.

Also reportedly returning is the NFL's partnership with rapper Jay-Z's Roc Nation, the company behind the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show fiasco with singer Bad Bunny.

The Puerto Rican artist's performance this year had him deliver just one line in English, while angering fans with progressive messaging like, "The only thing more powerful than hate is love."

The NFL will still champion the phrase "Inspire Change" as its main social justice initiative promoting the following pillars: education, economic advancement, community-police relations, and criminal justice reform, which focuses on "key reforms" to the system like "pre-trial detention."

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Other programs that aren't going anywhere are the NFL's "My Cause My Cleats" initiative that allows players, coaches, and staff to wear custom cleats to showcase causes or nonprofits on their shoes. The cleats are typically worn during games and later auctioned off for charity.

Also returning is the NFL's support for historically black colleges and universities.

Troy Vincent Sr., NFL executive vice president of football operations, simply says on the NFL website that the league works with HBCUs to "provide opportunities to students and administrators from these great institutions."

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Jason Whitlock: Washington Post columnist FIRED, then REHIRED after disturbing Charlie Kirk death post



Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah was rehired after her termination over social media posts about Charlie Kirk's assassination after taking the publication to court — and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is disappointed to hear it.

“This is a woman that had tweeted out some really negative things about the death of Charlie Kirk, and the Washington Post said, ‘Hey, we don’t need any of that.’ She was a columnist there covering race and culture,” Whitlock explains.

“She sued to get her job back, and this week, she won that lawsuit and has been reinstated,” he adds.

An article from the New York Times reported that “the Washington Post said in its termination letter that Ms. Attiah’s posts about Mr. Kirk had harmed ‘the integrity’ of the organization and violated standards requiring employees to use social media with civility and respect.”


“Ms. Attiah’s remarks about Mr. Kirk’s assassination, which she posted to the social network Bluesky on Sept. 10, the day he was shot, responded to the outpouring of grief after the shooting,” The Times continued.

"Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence," she wrote in a post.

“She wrote this on a post on the day he was shot,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says in disbelief.

“I can’t blame the Washington Post for not wanting to be associated with Ms. Attiah. I’m not surprised that she sued, and I’m not surprised that some liberal judge, or some liberal court, reinstated her,” he continues.

And in a recent podcast episode, conservative commentator April Chapman made her case for why things like this happen.

“Y’all not gonna like this, but it is risky and full of hidden liabilities to hire a black woman. They tend to be difficult. Okay? They tend to be less compliant. They are more likely to file a lawsuit and cry racism or sexism or some other ‘ism’ as a way to extort money from a company,” Chapman said on her podcast "Unshakable."

“She will get the company embroiled in some lawsuit that never ends. And so you don’t have to take my word for it, but because of the lack of the accountability and the ethnic narcissism of most liberal black females, like you don’t really have this problem in conservative spaces with black women,” she continued.

“But since 92% of all black women are progressive and liberal and Marxist in their worldview, what I’m saying holds to be true,” she added.

“That’s amazing,” Whitlock says, adding, “particularly coming from a black woman.”

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Enes Kanter Freedom responds to WNBA owner comparing his protest to shooting someone



WNBA team owner Michael Alter may want to rethink his choice of words the next time he gives an interview.

Following an incident at Wintrust Arena in Chicago last Sunday, the sports world wanted to hear what the owner had to say about a pro-women protest by former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom during a Chicago Sky vs. Indiana Fever game.

'He needs to check himself.'

Following a courtside exchange with Chicago Sky point guard Natasha Cloud — which included him standing up and raising his arms — Freedom was promptly ejected from the arena.

This was followed by Alter, the principal owner of the Sky, banning Freedom from the arena later in the week. The owner said Freedom had "the potential to be a threat," accusing him of stepping "towards the court" and "towards the players."

On Wednesday, Fox News' OutKick asked Alter to explain why Freedom did not get a warning before he was kicked out of the arena.

"You're kind of making me repeat over and over. So I think at some point we need to move on. But he wasn't given a warning because certain threats don't get warnings," Alter is heard saying in an audio clip. "He was given a lot of leeway. As I said, he was sitting there, and he was trash-talking [Cloud] and, and all that."

The owner continued, comparing Freedom's actions to shooting a person in a metaphor he might soon regret using.

"[Freedom] was certainly given leeway, but at a certain point, you know, when somebody, I mean, to use an extreme example, when you, when you shoot a gun at someone, you don't get a warning. 'Don't do that again.' Your action doesn't deserve a warning. "

The owner reiterated that if a person takes an action "that becomes a threat," they "don't get a warning."

Freedom responded to the statement in a subsequent podcast with OutKick and seemed flabbergasted at the comparison.

"The Chicago Sky owner, Michael Alter, literally compared my actions with shooting a gun. Unbelievable," the Turkey native stated.

"He needs to check himself. This is unacceptable," Freedom later said.

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Freedom went on explain that after playing in the NBA for 11 years, he's quite familiar with the rules surrounding fan interactions with players.

"If a fan steps over the baseline or the sideline, you will be thrown out of the game," Freedom explained. "Fans are not allowed to touch players, right? Anything other than that, you're allowed to do, which, I wasn't even trash-talking to her. Let me just make that very clear."

Freedom maintained that he simply told Cloud he was at the game to help protect women, wearing a shirt that read "WOMAN noun. adult human female."

He did not heckle or cuss at Cloud, although she used bad language toward him, the 6'10" center claimed.

The conversation culminated with Freedom saying he has plans to take legal action against Alter and the Sky, but not necessarily the WNBA. At the very least, he added that he would demand a refund as a paying customer who did nothing wrong.

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Alter, overall, has continually boasted about the arena security who immediately reprimanded Freedom during the game and escorted him out.

"The security were there to stop him. ... The Indiana Fever guy was right there. He was right in front of him. The guy from the arena, Monterey, was right there. It took a second for Chicago's guys to go to get there, but they got there pretty damn fast," Alter said, per Fox News. "I can't tell you what his intent was beyond his actions. I don't know what was in his head, OK? Neither do you. And if he tells you what's his intent based on the other things he's told you, you have to know he is completely unreliable."

As for whether the ban is permanent, Alter said Freedom would not be permitted into the arena until "he can prove" he is able to control himself.

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Al Michaels divides NFL fans with Trump jab during 'Thursday Night Football': 'Read the news'



Some people in the public eye simply can't help themselves.

Such is the case with veteran NFL play-by-play commentator Al Michaels, who took a moment to mock the president on Thursday night.

'We think it is still called Lake Erie.'

Michaels was commentating for the Cleveland Browns vs. New England Patriots game on "Thursday Night Football," a preseason broadcast for Amazon Prime, when he made a brief comment that ruffled some feathers.

Less than four minutes into the game, the broadcast was showing off the Cleveland skyline before a kickoff when Michaels commented on President Trump's recent name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

"That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie," Michaels remarked.

"We're not quite sure at this point. But we'll be by Lake 'Something Like Ontario' or whatever it's going to be called by the time we get to Buffalo. Anyway, you know what I'm talking about," Michaels chuckled.

"Some of us do," replied co-commentator Kirk Herbstreit.

"Right! Read the news," Michaels concluded.

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Fans seemed split on whether the remarks were necessary, with some getting in on the trolling nature of the name change.

"It’s Lake America, losers. Get it right," one viewer wrote on X.

Another compared the 81-year-old broadcaster to President Joe Biden: "Al Michaels is only one step ahead of Joe Biden in the brain department."

Others supported the veteran NFL voice, writing comments like, "Al Michaels comeback season. Top of his game!" and "Love it! Al Michaels calls it as he sees it."

Some comments were more in the middle, with one X user quoting a post of the video to claim, "God I love broadcasting. You can say whatever you want!"

While Michaels is known for cracking jokes, he does not have a history of going rogue with political opinions.

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His most notable foray into such topics was during the kneeling fiasco of 2017 where Michaels, along with broadcasters Cris Collinsworth and Mike Tirico, began NBC's "Football Night in America" broadcast with a discussion about Trump's remarks on the subject, which included saying kneeling players should be fired.

"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He's fired. He's fired,'" Trump said at the time.

Michaels said that through his remarks, Trump had "galvanized" the league.

"People were beginning to listen to each other. It was calming down a little bit, and then a match got thrown into the gas tank," Michaels claimed. "It’s inadvertently created a new level of unity."

The Browns won on Thursday, 37-13.

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Jason Whitlock: NFL player snaps after Druski's CTE skit goes too far



Comedian Druski has NFL players fuming after a viral sketch portrayed a concussion-riddled football star spiraling.

In the skit, he plays an NFL player named Ray Price who gets a horrific concussion on the field, becomes violent, and even evades the cop in a O.J. Simpson-inspired chase — but this time it's in a gold Ferrari.

“First off, people try to say Druski is not funny, and I find that ridiculous,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock comments. “Druski is hilarious.”

“I also find it uncomfortable that I find this so funny and I’m laughing at really inappropriate jokes, but the thing is hilarious,” he adds.


“He kind of nailed it,” Steve Kim agrees. “I think a lot of these comedic skits, if you’re really good at it, it’s a commentary on reality. Like parody is a lot to do with reality and you overblow it just to make an overall point.”

However, ex-NFL player T.J. Ward was among those who did not find it funny.

“In that skit ... it was a couple funny moments, but overall, I’m going to put my sensitivity cap on like everyone else seems to do when it’s affecting them,” Ward said in response to the skit.

“These are life and death situations. And at the end of the day, it’s a life-taking disease. And I think CTE universally is the only disease that’s allowed to be made fun of, which is crazy. You wouldn’t make fun of somebody with cancer. You wouldn’t make fun of somebody with dementia. You wouldn’t make fun of somebody with AIDS,” he continued.

“You wouldn’t make fun of anyone with these diseases that are taking lives,” he added.

“I’m going to put my insensitivity cap on and just call that cap,” Whitlock comments.

“It’s a programming that he has accepted and that many people have accepted that everybody’s looking to be a victim,” he adds.

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Andrew Tate's Lawyers EXPOSE he's a fraud: ‘They told the judge they were playing a role’



Manosphere influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been forced to admit an embarrassing truth that destroys the brand they have sold to young men across the world: They were apparently lying about their wealth.

The brothers are in federal custody in Miami battling extradition to the U.K. on rape and sex-trafficking charges and have been outed by their lawyers for allegedly not owning but renting all their fancy displays of a lavish playboy lifestyle.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock has been calling what they've been doing a grift for years, and he’s not surprised in the slightest to find out he seems to be right.

“The mansion was a renovated warehouse at the end of a dead-end street across a swamp from the airport. $600,000 or $700,000 of building. The Guardian called it a ‘run-down meat factory.’ Black paint, red neon, strip-club lighting sold as a villain lair,” Whitlock says.


“Romanian seizures, cars, watches, some Bitcoin, 15 properties totaling about $2 million. Combined, the brothers were being discussed in the neighborhood of $10 million,” he continues.

“Andrew had already said on tape he did not own the cars, a trust, a percentage of a company, access to a Bugatti he did not own,” he adds.

His lawyers told a Miami judge that their $2.1 million Aston Martin and the $12 million Bugattis he showed off were rented. The $50 million yacht they boasted wasn’t theirs either, but rather a prop they received payment to promote.

“That is not new information. That is notarized information,” Whitlock says.

“Tate sold a world where the righteous measure of a man is the thing he can park. Superfly lighting. A driveway full of other people’s cars,” he adds.

But the Tate brothers' grift has revealed even more about the pair than just lies.

“You will know them by their fruit,” Whitlock says. “The love of money is the root of all evil. Not money; the love. The hunger that will rent a yacht and call it testimony.”

“They told the judge they were playing a role. Every boy who copied the role was the audience. Every dollar that role pulled was the box office. What that hustle kills is a young man’s ability to tell a father from a pimp,” he continues. “A healed boy is a threat to that revenue.”

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Jason Whitlock: Target's blackface controversy may have been an inside job



Target is once again at the center of a culture-war firestorm after apologizing for a children's Halloween clown costume that resembles blackface and 19-century minstrel shows.

While Target immediately pulled their “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t convinced that it wasn’t an inside job.

“Who’s that outfit for? Who’s wearing that outfit? Is there any demand? Would anybody even know what they’re looking at?” Whitlock asks.

“Someone within Target wants DEI to return. So it’s not the CEO. It’s not the board. Or maybe it is a board member, who knows, but someone high up in Target wants DEI to return. Trust me, they have some LGBTQ soldiers and some BLM soldiers within Target high up who are irate,” he continues.


“Someone is orchestrating a hoax against Target from within Target,” he adds.

However, Dre Baldwin disagrees with Whitlock.

“I think that’s too much of an extrapolation,” he argues.

“I think this is just a Halloween costume. Somebody saw it. Someone within the racial grievance industry saw it. They found that picture to compare it to and said, ‘Hey, here’s racism.’ ... People who work in the racial grievance industry, as I call them, race hustlers, they go looking around for stuff like this because it gets a certain group of people excited,” he explains.

“It can lead to job offers, opportunities, etc. ... but I don’t think this was manufactured from within Target. I think it’s just a costume,” he continues, adding, “Somebody decided to see something in it that wasn’t there.”

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WNBA team bans Enes Kanter Freedom from arena with yet another insane claim: 'That changed everything'



The WNBA's Chicago Sky is taking Enes Kanter Freedom to task while once again avoiding the actual issue on everyone's mind.

Freedom wore a T-shirt that read "WOMAN noun. adult human female" to the Chicago Sky vs. Indiana Fever game on Sunday, causing a stir that seemingly agitated one of the Sky players.

'Most importantly, he took a step towards the court.'

After a whistle in the third quarter, 34-year-old point guard Natasha Cloud began yelling at Freedom, who stood up and raised his arms in the air while taking a step toward the court.

Cloud was irate as teammates ushered her away from the area, while Freedom was surrounded by security and subsequently ejected from the building.

According to Sky principal owner Michael Alter, Freedom's presence near the court wasn't just a form of protest; it was tantamount to a threat.

"[Kanter Freedom] has demonstrated to us unequivocally that he has the potential to be a threat," Alter said while speaking to local Chicago media.

"That he is not able to control himself to the extent where we can be comfortable that he may [not] step towards the court again and towards the players."

Alter continued, saying the team has decided to ban him from Wintrust Arena in Chicago indefinitely.

"So that is the basis for which we will not permit him into the building until such time as he can prove otherwise."

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The 6'-10" former NBA player had told Fox News that the he had exchanged text messages with Chicago general manager Jeff Pagliocca before the game to give him a heads-up that he planned to attend.

Freedom said he told the GM he had no plans to disrupt the event and received the reply, "Enjoy the game."

Alter called Freedom's framing of that exchange into question, ESPN reported, telling media members that Pagliocca only said, "Appreciate the text," and did not tell Freedom to enjoy the game or otherwise insinuate that the team was happy to have him.

"It was pretty clear to us that his purpose of coming here was trying to be provocative and just see how much attention he could get and stir up," Alter said.

Alter went on to repeatedly suggest that Freedom is a potential security threat that was quelled by security.

"That all changed when he made a decision to stand up from his seat again, on the court, put his arms out, point a finger at the player on the court, Natasha Cloud," the owner said. "And most importantly, he took a step towards the court. That changed everything, and he went from being a fan ... to being a potential threat. And that is why the security acted as quickly and swiftly, very smoothly, as they did."

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Alter, a commercial real estate developer, rejected Freedom's recent assertion that because he "did not step over the baseline," he was not breaking any rules.

As if "that's some magical threshold," Alter said. "One reason he didn't cross the baseline was because he was prevented from doing so. But regardless of that, the security people's job is not to wait until a threat intensifies. It's to avoid the threat from happening when [a] perceived threat occurs, and that's exactly what they did."

The owner further boasted that security "didn't wait" to see how far Freedom got.

Freedom has not made public comment since the ban was announced on Tuesday night.

Freedom and the Chicago Sky did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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