Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Compares Charlie Kirk NFL Tributes to Colin Kaepernick Taking a Knee

Tom Durante Sep 15th, 2025, 12:05 pm

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade compared the NFL’s Charlie Kirk tributes to the 2016 saga of former quarterback Colin Kaepernick taking a knee before games in an eyebrow-raising moment on Monday morning.

It all started when the panel, consisting of Kilmeade, Lawrence Jones , and Ainsley Earhardt , discussed various tributes to Kirk — who was assassinated last week — prior to college and NFL football games.

While Jones applauded the teams for standing up and showing support for Kirk, Kilmeade took the opportunity to resurrect another pre-game NFL moment, saying that the NFL “encouraged” it.

“This is not long ago, four years ago, the league was encou

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