{"id":2489,"date":"2013-01-24T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2013-01-24T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:14:44","slug":"colin-kaepernick-files-to-trademark-kaepernicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/01\/24\/colin-kaepernick-files-to-trademark-kaepernicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick files to trademark “kaepernicking”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Colin Kaepernick is taking the San Fransisco 49er’s to face Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens in the Superbowl on Feb.3.<\/p>\n

Kaepernick became a sensation after taking over for a concussed Alex Smith earlier this season. Kaepernick’s tattoos<\/a> made the internet storm, a little girl rapped about her favorite player<\/a> and now he even found his way to his own internet meme. RELATED: Tim Tebow trademarks “tebowing” <\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Branch of the Francisco Chronicle reported on Twitter that Kaepernick filed to trademark his signature touchdown pose, “Kaepernicking,” through the U.S Patent and Trademark office on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The craze comes out of Kaepernick’s tendency to celebrate touchdowns by flexing his right arm and kissing his bicep, has led to a flood of fan-generated Internet photos copying the pose.<\/p>\n

“Kaepernicking” joins “Gronking”, “Bradying”<\/a>, “Griffining”, “Tebowing” and whatever else fans think up of next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Kaepernick is taking the San Fransisco 49er’s to face Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens in the Superbowl on Feb.3. Kaepernick became a sensation after taking over for a concussed Alex Smith earlier this season. Kaepernick’s tattoos made the internet storm, a little girl rapped about her favorite player and now he even found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}