By Gary Peterson | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: March 16, 2018 at 10:16 am | UPDATED: March 19, 2018 at 11:58 am O.J. Simpson, in his first interview since leaving prison, told the Buffalo News that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made a mistake “in attacking the flag.” Says the man who willingly participated in the “If I Did It” travesty. Kaepernick kneeled down as the national anthem was played before 49ers games in 2016 to protest police brutality against people of color. His contract expired at the end of that season. He has not played since; no team will touch him. Simpson? You’d think he would have surrendered the moral high ground after being tried for murder and being convicted of kidnaping and robbery. But no. Simpson’s comments were part of an hours-long, wide-ranging interview distilled into a 4,800-word story. His views on Kaepernick are probably of most interest to those Bay Area residents who witnessed the full, spellbinding, horrifying, pitiful O.J. Simpson experience. “I really appreciate what he was trying to say,” Simpson told the News. “I thought he made a bad choice in attacking the flag.” Completely lost on Simpson is that Kaepernick’s gesture… Read full this story
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