49ers Apologize for Leaving Kaepernick Photos Out of Gallery
The San Francisco 49ers have apologized for initially leaving Colin Kaepernick out of a photo gallery celebrating the team’s history against the Green Bay Packers.
The team posted dozens of photos on its website of past games against the Packers before the teams meet again Monday night without at first including any of Kaepernick.
The team later added photos of Kaepernick.
Of note, Kaepernick still wasn’t featured on the tweet promoting the photo gallery.
Throwin' it back to top moments between the #49ers and Packers since 1950 📸
Full gallery: https://t.co/zM729wAkFy pic.twitter.com/tFB1r3CtKr
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) October 12, 2018
This is the first photo gallery the team has run this year, but pictures of Kaepernick were included in all seven photo galleries posted on the team’s website last year.
“Unfortunately there were a handful of obvious misses in this gallery posted by our website team and we appreciate them being brought to our attention,” the team said in a statement. “The 49ers organization has tremendous respect and gratitude for the contributions Colin made to our team over the years.”
Kaepernick set an NFL record for quarterbacks by rushing for 181 yards in a playoff win against Green Bay on Jan. 12, 2013, threw for 413 yards in a season-opening win against the Packers in 2013, and led a winning drive to win a playoff game in Green Bay on Jan. 5, 2014.
“We have fond memories of those games and that should have been displayed on our website,” the team said.
The 49ers went on to stress how much “appreciation” they had for Kaepernick.
“This oversight does not properly reflect the appreciation our ownership and this team have for Colin.”
The 49ers supported Kaepernick in 2016 when he decided to sit and then kneel in protest during the national anthem, saying, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”
The team also matched his $1 million contribution toward “the cause of improving racial and economic inequality.”
Kaepernick opted out of his contract the following offseason and has remained unsigned.
Coach Kyle Shanahan was asked about bringing Kaepernick back after starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo went down with a season-ending knee injury and said he still didn’t fit the team’s offense.
“I made that decision just with the style of offense that we wanted to go with,” Shanahan said on Sept. 24. “That’s kind of what I said last year and it’s kind of the same situation now. If you’re thinking of if there’d be a different discussion now, I always look into what style of offense I want to do, what style of offense we’ve been doing for the last two years.”
Kaepernick has an ongoing collusion grievance against the NFL.
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