Former Missouri football safety Ian Simon made an appearance on the ESPN Daily Podcast with ESPN’s Mina Kimes to discuss the Mizzou Football boycott he led during the 2015 season from the campus protests, and how things have changed since then five years later.
He was asked about the current Mizzou football players who took part in a protest march to the courthouse last week in response to George Floyd’s death, and it was really cool to hear him so supportive about the whole situation.
Here’s what Simon had to say:
“It’s awesome. In the grand scheme on things, it hasn’t been that long.