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DOES COLIN KAEPERNICK HAVE ANY LEGAL RECOURSE AGAINST THE NFL?
ESPN ^ | June 30, 2017 | Jason Reid

Posted on 06/30/2017 11:32:42 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

Only if he could prove collusion between the owners.


21 posted on 06/30/2017 11:56:29 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: DoodleDawg

Way to Go, Matthews! I watched his dad play for the Browns for years!


22 posted on 06/30/2017 11:57:38 AM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: kosciusko51

Let him try the CFL and earn his way back.


23 posted on 06/30/2017 11:57:40 AM PDT by techworker
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Employment as a professional entertainer requires the whole package - including a customer service ethic. Being a Professional Angry Negro disqualifies most applicants.

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Here! Here! I have said this repeatedly. He was being paid to perform, period. Quite Frankly, if he carried the team to at least the play offs then none of this would be happening. When yo are at the top of the game you are given a bit of leeway...when you are the towel boy then its a little different isn’t it?

I have been a 49ers fan since forever. I have been through losing seasons after losing season. I enjoyed the Montana and Young years because it was thrilling football. Capernick had a spark that quickly faded.

Then again I think that all of professional football has degraded to some extent. It just doesn’t seem like football anymore. Maybe its all the rule changes etc...too much hype like every game is some Celestial Rolling Stones Concert to something...I take baseball any day...Nice slow even pace interrupted with an occasional play. Good announcing makes the game.

Take about announcers. The Giants had Hank Greenwald for a number of years and I think he was one of their best announcers. I liked Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons, but Hank brought something to the booth that was special. He could spin a story around pitch after fly ball and carry it through a double header...He was great. But then again that was on radio which is the proper medium for baseball in my opinion.

I digress here....Capernick...he can go sell cars or something...He’s done. He couldabeen a contender but mucked it up himself.


24 posted on 06/30/2017 11:58:47 AM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: DoodleDawg

Speaking of Tebow, despite showing no ability in ‘A’ ball, committing more errors in the OF than would be accepted from a beginning IFer, he was promoted to ‘AA’ ball. He’s good for business. So even a minimum of talent gets a job if he’s good for business.

Kaepernick just isn’t good for business. Ask ESPN why they don’t want to hire such a talented guy!


25 posted on 06/30/2017 12:02:15 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: C19fan

No team signed me.

Can I sue?


26 posted on 06/30/2017 12:04:22 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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Just told my buddy the other day that if Obama were still President, make no mistake he WOULD interject himself and pressure the NFL to making a roster spot for this idiot.


27 posted on 06/30/2017 12:04:59 PM PDT by Maverick68 (T)
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To: DoodleDawg

So that is what they are calling it these days


28 posted on 06/30/2017 12:05:43 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I remember when 100% of scientists agreed there were only 2 genders.)
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To: C19fan

Kaepernick should go play football in a third world craphole of a country (like those I fought in as a US Army Infantry soldier) and see how that works out for him.


29 posted on 06/30/2017 12:08:17 PM PDT by Lions Gate
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To: techworker

If he doesn’t take a snap in professional football ever again, that would be fine with me.


30 posted on 06/30/2017 12:09:33 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Mr. Jeeves
YouTube has plenty of video commentaries on why specific actors/actresses don't get hired any more, how they screwed up their careers, etc.

Speaking of which, haven't heard much from that TWNDU character.

I'm certainly not going patronize any future "work" of his.

I gave up on the NFL in 1999, so Kaepernick can go 'balling in Bali with BHO, for all I care.

31 posted on 06/30/2017 12:11:46 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: jjotto
Speaking of Tebow, despite showing no ability in ‘A’ ball, committing more errors in the OF than would be accepted from a beginning IFer, he was promoted to ‘AA’ ball. He’s good for business. So even a minimum of talent gets a job if he’s good for business.

Not AA. St. Lucie is the Mets high-A team. Columbia was their low-A team. Give him two more years and I expect to see him playing for the Kansas City T-Bones.

32 posted on 06/30/2017 12:12:44 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: techworker

“Let him try the CFL and earn his way back.”

I watched Doug Flutie and Warren Moon - HE’S NOT THEM!

Besides, the CFL game is more of a team sport - I don’t think young Colin would be a fit.


33 posted on 06/30/2017 12:14:57 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: ssaftler
Never mind that I’m over 60, 50 pounds overweight, and couldn’t throw a football more than about 20 yards.

Your suit (and mine) would probably have a better chance than his, because you could definitely prove that they were guilty of age and weight discrimination.

34 posted on 06/30/2017 12:16:32 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: C19fan

The Undefeated is ESPN’s blacks-only, social-justice-spewing “sports” website—a truly pathetic, “by morons, for morons” destination.


35 posted on 06/30/2017 12:19:57 PM PDT by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: C19fan

Kaepernick could apply to sell concessions at an NFL venue. Maybe not the cotton candy guy as it could be a mess with the huge ‘fro hairstyle...

He’s still too r a d i o a c t i v e ! ! !


36 posted on 06/30/2017 12:21:26 PM PDT by Skybird
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To: C19fan

There is precedent for Kaepernick being able to sue. In 1987, MLB lost a series of arbitration cases for colluding against players. I’m not saying anything about Kaepernick or whether he should be employed or not, I’m just saying there is precedent for him to seek some type of remedy against the owners.


37 posted on 06/30/2017 12:22:27 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States)
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To: C19fan

Exact same level of recourse as Cutler, Romo and RGIII. Lots of high profile QBs out of the league this year, but only one anybody is crying about.


38 posted on 06/30/2017 12:26:13 PM PDT by discostu (You are what you is, and that's all it is, you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.)
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To: kosciusko51

Average NFL career is 3 to 6 years. That’s the reality of human ability. Physical reaction time normally peaks around age 24, then it’s wiles and guile, or exceptional genetics. CK got his six years.


39 posted on 06/30/2017 12:26:30 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: outofsalt
Why hasn’t ESPN hired him?

Racism.

40 posted on 06/30/2017 12:26:55 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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