Surprise! Guess Who Americans Voted As The Most ‘Disliked’ NFL Player

Surprise! Cop-bashing San Francisco back-up quarterback Colin Kaepernick was just voted the most disliked player in the National Football League.

Of the 1,000-plus Americans polled in recent survey from E-Poll Market Research, over 29 percent responded with “disliked a lot” to Kaepernick, says ESPN’s Darren Rovell. The 49er edged out Jameis Winston (22 percent), a man steeped in controversy from back in his days at Florida, and the loathed-unless-you’re-from-Boston Tom Brady (13 percent).

Per The Bleacher Report, the poll also reveals a racial divide: “The E-Poll Market Research poll revealed 37 percent of Caucasians said they disliked Kaepernick ‘a lot,’ while only 2 percent of African-Americans selected that option.”

The reason for Kaepernick’s public opinion collapse is not that he traded his starting spot for a seat on the bench, but rather his anti-American stunt. In late August, he decided to sit during the playing of our national anthem to protest the alleged systemic racism of law enforcement and the country as a whole for supposedly condoning the “murder” of blacks and other minorities.

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told the media. “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

Other NFL players, a U.S. soccer star and even an entire high school football team have followed suit, choosing to sit or kneel rather than show respect by standing during the national anthem before games. Even a state senator from Missouri offered a nod to Kaepernick by sitting in chambers while the Pledge of Allegiance was recited, earlier this month.

The overtly anti-American protests haven’t sat well with most Americans, who view Kaepernick’s act as more of a sign of disrespect to our military and those who’ve died for our freedom than an act of protest against “oppression.” Besides, the $9-million-per-year QB sort of proves the point that America is not an oppressive country by being well within his rights to disrespectfully sit during the anthem.

Some former fans have burned Kaepernick jerseys and even suggested they would boycott the NFL over the anti-American sentiment increasingly more widely embraced within the league.

Just two years ago, when the poll was last taken, Kaepernick earned only six percent “disliked a lot” responses.