NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Tagliabue's family informed the league of his death in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Shortly after the anthem controversy began, Colin Kaepernick made the Million Dollar Pledge. He was going to give a way $1M of his own money. Friends like Stephen Curry joined the 10 for 10 campaign and together they donated $30,000 to a Bay Area nonprofit.
Shares in Nike are down after the release of a new ad starring former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Critics of his national anthem protest are making their displeasure known but supporters say Nike's bold move to feature Kaepernick will only deepen their loyalty to the company.
Colin Kaepernick is one of the faces of a new Nike advertising campaign commemorating the brand's 30th anniversary of the "Just Do It" motto, according to ESPN.
An arbitrator is sending Colin Kaepernick's grievance with the NFL to trial, denying the league's request to throw out the quarterback's claims that owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests of social injustice.