{"id":26770,"date":"2013-02-04T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T18:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=26770"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:18:44","slug":"super-bowl-qb-kaepernick-adoption-the-biggest-blessing-of-my-entire-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/super-bowl-qb-kaepernick-adoption-the-biggest-blessing-of-my-entire-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl QB Kaepernick: adoption &#8220;the biggest blessing of my entire life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26782 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" alt=\"kaepernick1\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kaepernick1.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Kaepernick knows how to make the news. From opinion pieces on his many tattoos to Super Bowl coverage, the 25-year-old NFL quarterback attracts major media attention. Kaepernick ascended to the coveted Super Bowl position when 49ers regular QB Alex Smith was injured mid-season.<\/p>\n<p>In a pregame interview with Dan Marino on CBS, Kaepernick, who has never played in a game as big as the Super Bowl, revealed that <b>being adopted \u201cwas the biggest blessing of my entire life.\u201d<\/b> His adoptive parents were featured in the interview, proudly reading a letter that Colin had written to himself as a child: Kaepernick had predicted in junior high that he would be a 49ers quarterback by the time he was out of college. His prediction came true, and\u2014in addition to his colossal talent\u2014the love and support that Colin received from his adoptive family seem to have made a huge impact on the success of his career.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-26783\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"kaepernick2\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kaepernick2.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"222\" \/>Kapernick\u2019s birth mother was a 19-year-old young woman who wanted the best for her son but knew that she was not the one who could give it to him. She searched for adoptive parents who would be able to love her son, provide him with siblings, take care of him financially, and expose him to her love for sports. She found the perfect match in Rick and Teresa Kaepernick when Colin was 5 weeks old. The couple, who had two healthy children and had tragically lost two sons to complications related to heart defects, were seeking to adopt a son. Colin completed their family, and his birth mother could take heart knowing that her son would grow up with everything she had wanted for him.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, without pro-life parents like Colin\u2019s, the athletic world would be without quite a number of sports figures who have grown to behemoth fame, including Tim Tebow and Michael Phelps. Imagine that Colin\u2019s mom had not chosen life, and that his parents were not given the blessing of adopting him\u2026 What would yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl have looked like? Just to name a few, Kaepernick\u2019s contagious smile, overflowing spirit, and incredible athletic ability would have been missing.<\/p>\n<p>Read more adoption testimonies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanadoptions.com\/pregnant\/birth_mother_testimonials\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty big blessing for the rest of us, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":26783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Super Bowl QB Kaepernick: adoption &quot;the biggest blessing of my entire life&quot;  - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/super-bowl-qb-kaepernick-adoption-the-biggest-blessing-of-my-entire-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Super Bowl QB Kaepernick: adoption &quot;the biggest blessing of my entire life&quot; 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