As an offensive tackle for the Chargers and the Raiders, Ron Mix shielded quarterbacks from attack.
Although he retired from the NFL in 1972, Mix is still on the job.
“I kind of admire his courage,” Mix, a Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, said of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. “He’s speaking out against obvious injustices that are taking place.”
Before a preseason game last Friday, Kaepernick sat during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Afterward, he explained that he could not honor the national anthem or “show pride in a flag of a country that oppresses black people and people of color.