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What if college players followed Kaepernick's lead? They might find they have real power
USA Today ^ | August 29, 2017 | DAN WOLKEN

Posted on 09/20/2017 1:48:46 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo

Edited on 09/20/2017 3:04:02 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: gaijin

How about a Latino / white / Asian League..?


21 posted on 09/20/2017 2:05:50 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Well considering lots of them are there on a football scholarship, they start messing around and they’re gone.


22 posted on 09/20/2017 2:05:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The alumni funding of their little fiefdom will die if the administrations allowing snowflakes to run the football team.

Does anyone see what happened to Mizzou? Admissions dropped. Bigly.

Learn from history, morons. This isn’t just wrong on the merits, it is wrong for your bottom line.


23 posted on 09/20/2017 2:06:10 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

I’d love to see the next player kneeling during and NFL game get steamrolled by a teammate.


24 posted on 09/20/2017 2:06:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

it will destroy college football.

and, while many colleges sponsor teams for the sport of it,
some colleges sponsor teams TO MAKE MONEY

they will lose football as a Profit Center

(we switched our patronage from NFL to college ball when NFL let Kaepernick get away with insulting us with his anti-American antics during our National Anthem. He’s given a $120,000,000.00 contract to play a child’s game and he’s complaining?????????

if colleges start the same insulting behaviour, we will stop patronize them, too

GTH-NFL!


25 posted on 09/20/2017 2:07:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

College? I saw an entire team of black 8 yr olds take a knee this morning.
They haven’t even been taught American history.


26 posted on 09/20/2017 2:09:25 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: BenLurkin

Let the leftist sports establishment pay for its own politicized sports. The rest of will no longer be a captive audience. And lots of us won’t miss those pagan half-time Superbowl shows.


27 posted on 09/20/2017 2:09:46 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

They should all go play for the Missouri Tigers.


28 posted on 09/20/2017 2:15:19 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: BenLurkin
It will destroy college football industry.

Not to mention enrollment. Look at the student enrollment at Mizzou since their BLM fiasco.

29 posted on 09/20/2017 2:15:40 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

I guess they didn’t study history and find out what happened when the baseball players went on strike.

Season was canceled and everyone just did something more constructive with their viewing time that year. No biggie at all.

The players Union caved and baseball started up again the next year with the players being that much poorer. They gained nothing and looked foolish. After all they do get paid a stupid amount of money to play a game they pay to play in their home towns.


30 posted on 09/20/2017 2:19:03 PM PDT by Boomer (Can we ban the name associated with the initials HRC for a decade please?)
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To: kosciusko51

College players are slaves. Can’t blame them. Smart one that want to become pros will think twice. Costly.


31 posted on 09/20/2017 2:19:39 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Rebelbase

I’d love to see fans with signs saying “Americans don’t cheer for kneelers.” And then don’t


32 posted on 09/20/2017 2:23:25 PM PDT by getitright (Finally- a president who offers hope!)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Do it, oh please, do it. You guys are going to do to football what so many of us wanted done yesterday...shut it down and cause it to quit being a corrupting influence in high school and college. Go for it.


33 posted on 09/20/2017 2:26:44 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Now only would they kill off college football industry but would trickle up into NFl and kill it off also or at least lower it to the audience levels of girls field hockey.
34 posted on 09/20/2017 2:29:38 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Slaves? Yeah, sure.


35 posted on 09/20/2017 2:30:05 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

What if college players followed Kaepernick’s lead? They might find they have real power

Yeah right, go with that! LOL. More likely they would find themselves not on a football field anytime soon!


36 posted on 09/20/2017 2:30:38 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Please do this!

American “football” will be extinct in one decade if they do.


37 posted on 09/20/2017 2:32:30 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Slaves. A college education in return for the college making millions off their labor. I once thought it was more than fair. Then it started getting big. Just look at how many star players DECLINE to play in the next batch of bowls. They know the drill.


38 posted on 09/20/2017 2:42:55 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Most of them don’t really get an education, but they do get a degree ... two very different things.


39 posted on 09/20/2017 2:47:50 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

They chose that path. And the labor has more than paid off for thousands including two guys I graduated HS with who made it 10+ years in the NFL (even they hate the NFL).

No sympathy!


40 posted on 09/20/2017 2:48:32 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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