NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell lamented the lack of support the league offered to now-free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick when Kaepernick began protesting during the national anthem in 2016.
Goodell sat down with Fox Sports' Emmanuel Acho for Acho's Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man video series. The former linebacker pressed Goodell for how he might apologize to Kaepernick.
"Well the first thing I'd say is I wish we had listened earlier, Kap, to what you were kneeling about and what you were trying to bring attention to," he said. "We had invited him in several times to have the conversation, to have the dialogue.