‘I WAS WRONG TO CRITICIZE COLIN KAEPERNICK FOR KNEELING FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM’. Three years after she criticized NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford said she was wrong. “Over the past several months, I have opened my ears, mind, and heart and it has opened my eyes to see how wrong I was and for that I am sorry.” The Staffords donated $350,000 to their alma mater, the University of Georgia, this week to help fund a social justice program for the school’s athletes.