News Summary

• Colin Kaepernick's memoir, "The Perilous Fight," comes out on Sept.
• In interviews with NBC News, Kaepernick reveals the story behind how he came to take a knee in 2016.
• Kaepernick, 38, is now also a father of a 4-year-old girl.
• Being a dad “increases the responsibility and urgency of the work we’re doing,” he says in the book.
• The quarterback who once led the San Francisco 49ers on a Disney movie-esque run to the Super Bowl in 2012 says he hasn’t watched an NFL game since he was exiled from the league.