Colin Kaepernick refuses to meet his birth mother!

[El Supremo]

Heidi Russo has watched her son from the stands, half of her desperately wanting to rise and wave her arms with excitement in hopes that Colin Kaepernick might finally recognize her. She dreams, after all these years, that there might finally be a connection with the young man she once gave up for adoption.

"Then the other half of me calms me down and I just sit there and cheer like the rest of the people," said Russo, a 44-year-old registered nurse who lives in a suburb of Denver and went to see Kaepernick play in-person for the first time in 2010 when his University of Nevada team played at Colorado State. "I kept looking at him, thinking our eyes might meet. He might finally see me. I kept thinking it happened, but he never came to see me after the game."

For all of Russo's joy in watching Kaepernick, who has made a dramatic rise to starting quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, there is an obvious sense of regret that he hasn't been a regular part of her life.

"I watch him now and I see how happy he is and I'm thrilled for him," said Russo, who said "I have to respect" his decision not to meet....

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--birth-mother-still-trying-to-connect-with-new-49ers-starting-qb-colin-kaepernick-052911423.html

Scandalous!

[bluedigger]

1. This should be a private matter.

[Auggie]

2. Agree n/t

[madinmaryland]

3. Un-Recced. This is a personal issue between Colin and his mother.

[joeybee12]

4. Heidi Russo should have kept her mouth shut...she gave him up...and to try and

meet him 20+ years later is wrong...he doesn't know her, he has his own life...she made the choice a long time ago not to be a part of it.

[mythology]

5. As somebody who has had to cut his biological dad out of his life

this is a personal matter.

Please delete this post. It's not an appropriate subject.

[El Supremo]

6. No

[sadbear]

7. Young people make mistakes.

Young mothers AND young men. I hope he's just waiting for the playoffs to be over. It would be an unnecessary distraction.

[MrSlayer]

8. He should be happy she "Chose Life".

Being that he's a super fundie type and all. You'd think he might have learned something about forgiveness in there too.