Last week, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was fined more than $11,000 and penalized for apparently using inappropriate language on the field. On Sunday, FoxSports offered new details on the incident. 

Referees told Fox’s Jay Glazer that Kaepernick said the n-word during a skirmish with the Chicago Bears’ LaMarr Houston. Kaepernick denied any wrongdoing.

“It will be appealed,” he said, per the Associated Press. “I didn’t say anything.”

49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said that he had no reason to

The NFL goes pink each October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.(Photo: Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports)

Mary Jo Kane, a lifelong Chicago Bears fan and college professor, settles in to watch a football game and finds herself taking a tally of the players — one she’d rather not do, but can’t help.

Have any of these guys committed a crime? Tried to strangle a wife? Knocked one out? Beaten a child?

The NFL has an image problem. Some would say it’s at a moral crossroads as focus on abuse alleg