Miami Dolphins linebacker Kiko Alonso tweeted a photo of him tackling San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick on the final play of Sunday’s game. The Dolphins won 31-24 over the 49ers.
Alonso is of Cuban descent, as his father was forced to leave Cuba.
“There were some feelings on my part,” Alonso told Armando Salguero, a reporter for the Miami Herald. “I didn’t [see what happened in Cuba first-hand]. But I do have feelings about it. So there was some bad blood there for me with Kaepernick.”
Kaepernick drew ire for wearing a T-shirt of civil rights leader Malcolm X meeting with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who died on Friday. Kaepernick was forced to defend comments about Castro, saying that he was “not talking about Fidel Castro and his oppression” and “I never said I support the oppressive things [Castro] did,” adding that he thought Castro made proper investments in education and health care.
