It’s been almost a week since Jim Harbaugh invited Colin Kaepernick to throw footballs at halftime of Michigan’s spring game and, as far as we can tell, the program hasn’t been abandoned by its fan base, the student body hasn’t turned into a band of unpatriotic anarchists and the football team itself hasn’t toppled at the hands of some unsolvable quagmire of political debate. The “distractions” brought on by Kaepernick’s arrival—if they exist at all—didn’t seem to curtail the number of articles written about Michigan’s freshman receivers, who seem to have impressed all in attendance.
The Lions, who were prominently represented in Ann Arbor, did not have their facility buried underneath a feverish letter-writing campaign from concerned citizens. Dan Campbell was not challenged to some kind of bareknuckle standoff (though it might seem silly to try something like that under any circumstances).
In other words, life moved on, which is probably what would happen if an NFL team were to formally work out or even sign Kaepernick right now.
