Bruce Springsteen acknowledged athletes taking a stand for issues outside of athletics and voiced his support for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in an interview with Rolling Stone.
”Athletics is a difficult place to make political statements,” Kaepernick said. “There was the Olympics in the Sixties, and obviously Muhammad Ali. But sports is such an escapist field. I think when politics or personal expression is injected, it rankles people more than in other fields. But we're in a time where there isn't any place where these issues can be excluded. I admire Kaepernick, but it's a very difficult field to be outspoken in.