Priebus, Kaepernick among Time magazine's 100 most influential

Magazine lists sometimes make strange bedfellows, and Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people is no exception.

Among those making the newsmagazine's sprawling list, released Thursday, are two people with Wisconsin ties, though not a lot else to connect them: Reince Priebus, the Wisconsin Republican who went from being chairman of the Republican National Committee to President Donald Trump's chief of staff; and San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (currently a free agent), born in Milwaukee and raised in Fond du Lac, and a focal point last year when he refused to stand during the national anthem to protest social injustice targeting African-Americans.

Priebus' blurb on Time's list was written by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as chief of staff under President Barack Obama (though it says more about Emanuel than it does about Priebus). Kaepernick's was written by Jim Harbaugh, who coached the quarterback from 2011-'14. "His willingness to take a position at personal cost is now part of our American story," Harbaugh wrote of Kaepernick. "How lucky for us all and for our country to have among our citizens someone as remarkable as Colin Kaepernick."