Kaepernick Fights To Tell His Own Story
The Lead
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🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After the NFL invited Colin Kaepernick to a private workout last week, there were disagreements about how it should be conducted. On Saturday, Kaepernick turned the tables at the last minute by canceling the NFL event and announcing a workout on his own terms. The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue was there and she joins us to give an insider account of how the chaos of the day unfolded, what it was like inside the stadium, and what could happen next with Kaepernick.
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| 0:00.0 | Over the weekend, the Colin Kaepernick saga took a couple of unexpected turns. |
| 0:12.4 | After being off the field for nearly three years, the 32-year-old free-age and quarterback |
| 0:16.1 | practiced in front of representatives from several NFL teams in Atlanta today, but the |
| 0:20.8 | workout was abruptly moved to a high school football stadium south of the city at almost |
| 0:25.9 | the last minute it was supposed to. |
| 0:27.6 | After the NFL invited Kaepernick to a private workout last week, there were disagreements |
| 0:32.1 | about how it should be conducted. |
| 0:34.7 | And Kaepernick and his team turned the tables on the league at the last minute by organizing |
| 0:39.3 | a workout on their own terms. |
| 0:42.1 | The athletics Jordan Rodriguez was there, and she joined us today to give an insider |
| 0:47.1 | account of how the chaos of the day unfolded, what could happen next with Kaepernick, and |
| 0:53.3 | what it was like inside that stadium on Saturday. |
| 0:56.3 | It was almost a reverent silence like when you're in church and you're afraid to raise |
| 1:02.5 | your voice above a whisper. |
| 1:06.1 | From Wondery in the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:08.8 | Kavita is off today in wine country. |
| 1:12.8 | It's Monday, November 18th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:16.5 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:21.7 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the game. |
| 1:28.7 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:36.0 | It stays with you. |
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