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Spike Lee Calls Out NFL Teams For Not Signing Free Agent Colin Kaepernick
ESPN ^ | March 19 2017 701 central pm | Rich Cimini ESPN Staff Writer

Posted on 03/19/2017 7:17:46 PM PDT by drewh

Famed film director Spike Lee has joined the Colin Kaepernick debate, suggesting Sunday in an Instagram post that one of his hometown teams -- the New York Jets -- should sign the unemployed quarterback.

"The New York J-E-T-S Need A Quarterback," wrote Lee, who said he spoke with Kaepernick over brunch. "Who Is The J-E-T-S Quarterback? Is My Man Joe Willie Namath Coming Back? Crazy Times We Live In."

Lee used his post to rail against the NFL for excluding Kaepernick, who ignited a firestorm last fall because he refused to stand for the national anthem as a way to protest social and racial issues.

Lee said it "Smells MAD Fishy To Me, Stinks To The High Heavens" that Kaepernick, who opted out of his San Francisco 49ers contract, still doesn't have a job.

Kaepernick will stand for the national anthem during the 2017 season, sources have told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

Kaepernick no longer wants his method of protest to detract from the positive change he believes has been created, sources said. The amount of national discussion on social inequality -- as well as support from other athletes nationwide, including NFL and NBA players -- affirmed the message he has tried to deliver.

(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: karma; loser
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1 posted on 03/19/2017 7:17:46 PM PDT by drewh
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Spike, form your own team and have at it.


2 posted on 03/19/2017 7:19:13 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (SJW is the weaponization of compassion.)
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To: drewh

It’s a business decision.

He’s not that great a QB, and the fans don’t like him.

He made that bed, and now he gets to lie on it.


3 posted on 03/19/2017 7:19:39 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: drewh

Lefties believe they have a divine right to blacklist and blackball conservatives, but God help you if you return the favor.


4 posted on 03/19/2017 7:19:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: drewh

Why does anyone want to deal with a prima donna?


5 posted on 03/19/2017 7:19:53 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: drewh

Fans don’t want him and fans are the biggest driver in anything a team does.


6 posted on 03/19/2017 7:20:27 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: drewh

It’s from ESPN, and they wonder why they’re losing 300,000 subscribers a month.


7 posted on 03/19/2017 7:20:59 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: drewh

Script: So..., much..., WINNING!
8 posted on 03/19/2017 7:21:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: JusPasenThru
Spike, form your own team and have at it.

Call it the hate whiteys.

9 posted on 03/19/2017 7:21:16 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Modern day liberals are the most intolerant, hateful, and violent people in America)
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“Spike” Lee.....I've read that “Spike” comes from the fact that a spike can so often be seen in his arm.
10 posted on 03/19/2017 7:21:28 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

They really can’t understand it.

Wow...


11 posted on 03/19/2017 7:22:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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“Kaepernick will stand for the national anthem during the 2017 season”

Will be weird in NFL Europe.


12 posted on 03/19/2017 7:22:15 PM PDT by lacrew
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When one is a (copulating rectum) like Kapernick,
nobody wants them on their team. Simple reality...


13 posted on 03/19/2017 7:22:19 PM PDT by W. (Out with scum in government just there to steal our treasure!)
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To: drewh

ESAD Spike. Retard.


14 posted on 03/19/2017 7:22:23 PM PDT by soycd
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To: drewh

What a combination—Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick


15 posted on 03/19/2017 7:24:28 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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I hate this guy-—he was angry that things were improving in his old Brooklyn neighborhood-———he calls it gentrification when it’s just urban renewal.


16 posted on 03/19/2017 7:25:22 PM PDT by Mears
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Fine, Spike, buy a team and sign him yourself. Good luck with that.


17 posted on 03/19/2017 7:26:32 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: drewh

ESPN is PROUD to be a leftwing sinkhole:

........Kaepernick no longer wants his method of protest to detract from the positive change he believes has been created, sources said. The amount of national discussion on social inequality — as well as support from other athletes nationwide, including NFL and NBA players — affirmed the message he has tried to deliver.


18 posted on 03/19/2017 7:26:35 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Most people who can buy football tickets have jobs and probably hate leftists. Colon Cancer Kapernick destroyed his reputation. He should join the Venezuela Football League.


19 posted on 03/19/2017 7:27:39 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: drewh
[ Spike Lee Calls Out NFL Teams For Not Signing Free Agent Colin Kaepernick ]


20 posted on 03/19/2017 7:27:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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