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Colin Kaepernick, shunned by the NFL, named Week 1 MVP by the player's union
Mashable ^ | 9/16/2017 | adam rosenberg

Posted on 09/17/2017 11:37:11 AM PDT by bkopto

Professional NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick can't find a team to call home in the National Football League, but that didn't stop the NFL Player's Association from celebrating his charity work this week.

The official player's union of the NFL named Kap as the organization's Week 1 "Community MVP" on Friday. He received the honor "for his commitment to empowering underserved communities through donations and grassroots outreach," the NFLPA announcement notes.

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


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: aflcio; athletes; biglabor; crybabycolin; football; kaepernick; nfl; sports; unions
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To: bkopto

I stopped watching NFL games. Period.

Also won’t watch any sport on espn.


21 posted on 09/17/2017 11:49:42 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: bkopto

no way in HELL we will EVER pay one thin dime into the stinking NFL again,, then!

To Hell with the NFL!
hey, it rhymes too

would make a good chant at the league that eventually replaces them
smile smile smile


22 posted on 09/17/2017 11:49:45 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: dfwgator

Ted Turner.... Atlanta Braves.


23 posted on 09/17/2017 11:50:11 AM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: bkopto

Simply an indication of the almost total lack of brains in the group of thugs.


24 posted on 09/17/2017 11:50:43 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: GoldenPup
Simply an indication of the almost total lack of brains in the group of thugs.

That's why they're thugs.

25 posted on 09/17/2017 11:51:37 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: bkopto
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick let the world know know that he supports ESPN host Jemele Hill, who called President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter.
26 posted on 09/17/2017 11:52:03 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: aynrandfreak

NFL players UNION does what for these millionaires?
pee in Goddells ear?......concussion payouts?.......
suspension reductions for all the thugs?
What a joke.


27 posted on 09/17/2017 11:52:24 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: dfwgator
Didn’t Trump own a team?

In 1983 he bought the New Jersey Generals for $9 million and made them into a good team in 2 years, but the USFL failed as a league (couldn't compete with the NFL) so that whole thing sputtered out.

28 posted on 09/17/2017 11:53:48 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: bkopto

When I first read it, I thought it said “undeserved” not “underserved”. lol


29 posted on 09/17/2017 11:54:10 AM PDT by ozaukeemom (Never Forget. Never.)
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To: Jack Deth

You mean when John Riggins beat the Dolphins in 83?
If so I remember that game well. I was a Dolphins fan at the time and Riggins performance was so incredible it became funny. The Dolphins knew he was going to get the ball and run up the middle but he carried it for 4-7 yards every single time. Jeez it was unreal.


30 posted on 09/17/2017 11:54:14 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: dfwgator

Nope I spent $120 yesterday at a sports bar watching COLLEGE FB

Today IM enjoying a nice Sunday with the wife and not even bothering to check the scores

BTW nice Hail Mary

And wasn’t Texas USC a helluva game?


31 posted on 09/17/2017 11:54:15 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee")
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To: x1stcav

‘These people are dumber than I ever could’ve believed.’

This is probably the bottom line. They’re not Mensa.


32 posted on 09/17/2017 11:54:48 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: bkopto

“The NFLPA is a member of the AFL–CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States”


33 posted on 09/17/2017 11:54:52 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: bkopto

Was Colon down in Texas or Florida helping out with the hurricane victims?


34 posted on 09/17/2017 11:54:54 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: wardamneagle

Once you’ve made your first million the rest doesn’t matter. They have an interest in the economic pie getting bigger. They just don’t see it.


35 posted on 09/17/2017 11:55:38 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Makes me even happier that we pulled the plug. Don't miss NFL football or FoxNews at all. Weather, etc, we get from the phone, and if there are any programs we really want to watch, we can always download them.

Yo, Brand "C" cable company, NFL, Murdoch boys, and ESPN: Adios...

Oh yeah, Weather Channel too, I had already forgotten all about you...

36 posted on 09/17/2017 11:55:54 AM PDT by OKSooner (Never take a known wise-ass to the shooting range.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
And wasn’t Texas USC a helluva game?

Loved it, good old-fashioned snot-knocking kind of a game. Proud of Texas, although they came up a bit short."

37 posted on 09/17/2017 11:55:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wardamneagle
NFL players UNION does what for these millionaires?
pee in Goddells ear?......concussion payouts?.......
suspension reductions for all the thugs?
What a joke.

I wonder how many of the mega-wealthy team owners realize that it's over, that the point of no return has been passed.

38 posted on 09/17/2017 11:56:26 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: dfwgator

FIGHT ON !!


39 posted on 09/17/2017 11:57:25 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee")
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To: bkopto

The NFL must have a death wish on themselves.


40 posted on 09/17/2017 11:58:25 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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