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Colin Kaepernick uses image of Texas floods to trash-talk Texans fans

Probably not the right time for this.

Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

People in Texas are currently dealing with serious floods. So it’s probably not a great time to use an image of those floods to taunt your opponents in an upcoming preseason football game, like 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick did on Tuesday.

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The 49ers play the Texans in Houston on August 15. Kaepernick (who wears No. 7) says he “warned” Houston that the “7torm” is coming. Yikes. He deleted the photo from his Instagram, but left the original tweet up, as well as his tweet saying, “No disrespect intended.”

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Kaepernick later posted the following apology on Twitter:

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