Favre compares Kaepernick to Tillman leaving NFL for military

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Green Bay Packers great Brett Favre says Colin Kaepernick's decision to put activism ahead of his NFL career echoes Pat Tillman's decision to walk away from the league to join the US military. In comments to TMZ published on the celebrity news website on Sunday, Favre said Kaepernick -- who has been out of the NFL since 2017 after being widely vilified for kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice -- will rightly come to be seen as a hero. "It's not easy for a guy his age -- black or white, Hispanic, whatever -- to stop something that you've always dreamed of doing, and put it on hold, maybe forever, for something that you believe in," Favre told TMZ Sports.

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