The rise of Colin Kaepernick hasn’t slowed one. bit.
CK’s sculpture-like frame is plastered all over this month’s cover of GQ Magazine. When you make headlines at ESPN, the sporting world knows who you are. When you make the cover of GQ, the whole world gets in on it.
For most 49er fans, the article already tells a lot of what they already know… adopted by the Kaepernick’s, star baseball player that was drafted by the Cubs, controversy over the tattoos, prime example of the “new” quarterback, and so on.
But there are a few gems in there that were interesting, like the reason Kaepernick wanted to play football rather than baseball is because he likes the whole “team” aspect of the game.
“It was never about being famous, never about the roar of the crowd. It was about other players, because there is no other sport where you rely on your teammates so much. The fact that you can go out there and trust ten other people without even looking at them, that’s amazing. That you can build that type of trust and have that type of confidence where you can throw a ball without seeing where a receiver’s at, and just trust he’s gonna be there and make a play. You have to have that trust because it’s a physical sport where people get hurt. There’s that much more at stake. I love trusting my well-being to those ten other people. And I love the trust those ten people put in me to lead them, to figure out what they need in order to make them as good as they can be.”
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