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.