In 2017, Tillman’s wife, Marie, said freedom of expression was exactly what her husband sacrificed his life for.
Nike’s announcement that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick would be the face of the company’s upcoming"Just Do It" campaign was met with mixed reactions, with some detractors contrasting the quarterback with NFL star turned Army veteran Pat Tillman. Tillman’s image was used as a contrasting example of who should be held in high esteem—but his biographer said Tillman would have been kneeling right alongside Kaepernick.
Yet another hashtag that began appearing on social media was #BoycottNike, and some social media users who disagreed with the decision to feature Kaepernick even burned their Nike apparel. "Pat would have found Kaepernick an extremely admirable person for what he believed in,” Krakauer explained. “I have no doubt if he was in the NFL today, he would be the first to kneel. So there is irony about what is going on.”
The controversy surrounding Kaepernick’s campaign with Nike isn’t the first time Tillman’s sacrifice for his country has been used by critics to argue against Kaepernick’s protest. In 2017, Tillman’s wife, Marie, asked people to stop using his name to divide people politically.
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