It was called "The Best Story of Super Bowl Week!" by the New York Giants Pat Hanlon.
It's been decried by others.
Yep. It must be Rick Reilly's music.
This week, Reilly wrote about Colin Kaepernick's family. Well, not exactly. Mr. Reilly wrote about Colin Kaepernick and the fact that he doesn't want to meet his birth mother. Kaepernick was adopted when he was about five weeks old. His mother gave him up for adoption as a 19 year old single mother.
The Kaepernicks, who had two children and had lost two others to heart issues, were more than willing to take Colin in. His adoptive mother sent letters and pictures for a while until his birth mother asked them to stop.
She did send Colin a letter for him to open when he was 18. He opened it but has not gone on to establish contact with her.
When Reilly pressed the issue, Kaepernick told him that he was not curious about meeting her.
Apparently, this puzzled Reilly. He regales us with the story about his own adopted daughter and the journey that she undertook. This was a piece that he wrote for Time Magazine in 2000 about his daughter going to South Korea to meet her birth mother, who was 18 when she gave her daughter up for adoption.
That is a wonderful story. Good for the young Ms. Reilly that she was able to make that journey.
Here's the problem though. It seems that because of his own family's narrative, Mr. Reilly wants to apply that same set of circumstances to Mr. Kaepernick.
