Colin Kaepernick made a big-time mistake Tuesday.
The San Francisco 49ers quarterback was not a popular man in the social media world for what many perceived to be an insensitive and borderline insulting Instagram post. In the post, Kaepernick used a photo of the devastating floods in Houston to push his self-promoting hashtag “#7tormscoming,” whatever that means.
Kaepernick eventually deleted the post (thank goodness for screenshots, though), and he also issued an apology — of sorts.
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Literally two minutes after that weak attempt to apologize and obviously feeling awful about his tone-deaf attempt to compare himself to a natural disaster, Kaepernick sent this tweet, linking to a shirtless picture of himself on his Instagram page.
We’re guessing someone in Kaepernick’s camp got a hold of the quarterback and had him issue this much more formal apology.
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You would think the picture of the cars underwater — that Kaepernick posted — might have given him an idea of what Houston was dealing with, but apparently not.
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