Colin Kaepernick Says His Mom Told Him to Date Taylor Swift, Thought They ‘Would Be Perfect Together’
"No slight to Taylor, but she was not my type," the athlete-turned-activist wrote in his new memoir.
Colin Kaepernick's mother once told him to ask out Taylor Swift, believing they would be a perfect match, according to the NFL quarterback's memoir The Perilous Fight. Despite Swift ultimately marrying Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in 2026, Kaepernick wrote that his parents, who are white and adopted him, failed to grasp his identity as a person of color.
He added that his mother once disapproved of his high school relationship with a Black classmate, but supported his dating of a white girl instead. Kaepernick contrasted these anecdotes with his mother's unsupportiveness of his relationship with Crystal during homecoming, while promptly displaying a photo of him with Lindsay, a white girl from a friend's family, on the wall.
Both Swift and Kaepernick experienced happy endings; Swift is married to radio personality Nessa Diab, and Kaepernick is married to radio personality Nessa Diab and is a father.
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