Brandon Marshall was afraid this would happen.
Marshall is a former NFL linebacker and a longtime friend of Colin Kaepernick, whom you know as a 49ers quarterback-turned-activist.
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In 2016 Kaepernick, Marshal, and dozens of other NFL players had an agenda. They took a knee before their respective games. It was a plea. A call to a cause. A warning.
And did they and the others ever take a white-hot ration of outrage for their trouble.