Posted on 06/10/2017 6:54:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber
If you believe the media, the National Football League has a duty — an obligation, really — to provide employment for (former) quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
It’s been three months since he opted out of his contract (49ers’ version: they were going to cut him anyway).
Then he sat down — or took a knee, whatever — and waited for the phone to ring. And waited. And waited. And waited.
He’s still waiting. The Seattle Seahawks gave him a sniff recently, but decided to pass. Coach Pete Carroll says it’s because Kaepernick is a starter and the Seahawks already have a starter.
You mean former starters can’t be backups? What do they think he’s been doing most of the last two years? Maybe Carroll is just heading off a potential quarterback controversy.
The New York Jets, desperate for a quarterback, preferred to sign 37-year-old Josh McCown rather than Kaepernick.
The Cleveland Browns have had 26 starting quarterbacks since the rebirth of the franchise in Cleveland in 1999. They passed on Kaepernick. They prefer Brock Osweiler.
The Cardinals passed on Kaepernick, too, instead signing Blaine Gabbert. Kaepernick replaced Gabbert as the 49ers starter last season and threw 16 touchdown passes and just four interceptions.
Joe Namath, it seems, will be offered a backup job before Kaepernick.
Anyway, the media has adopted Kaepernick as its latest pet cause. They’re always looking for causes as long as it is the right (actually left) kind.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Kaepernick needs to find a new career, this one was over the first time he disrespected the US and our flag. I’m sure he can find a job as a night janitor somewhere.
“Any player who offends a wide swath of his customers is not being very smart.”
That depends, over the last season, Kaepernick was the number 17 sale item for jerseys in the NFL.com store and the players do receive a piece of the action through licensing laws. So which group is smart, the player doing something stupid to get noticed or the public buying his jersey throwing some of their hard earned money at him?
rwood
Watch for a collusion trial in the near future if he can’t find work.
rwood
Oh yes, I want him on the sidelines for my team. Maybe he’ll wipe his ass with the flag next time.
NFL’s way of sending a message to anyone else who shows up for work with a crapernick attitude. Hopefully this inspires all the other millionaires to show up and play the game and leave thier politics at home. I hope he never plays again.
Got a one-way ticket to palookaville in the seat next to Reality Winner.
“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it.”
Give him a media job.
If you believe the media, the National Football League has a duty — an obligation, really — to provide employment for (former) quarterback Colin Kaepernick
Patent Bullshit. Screw the media. The guy was a lousy q back and a lousy person. Trouble making self absorbed jerk who is getting what he deserves.
You reap what you sow.
Democrats are NEVER concerned with credentials or feasibility; they hire by who is a good comrade and this pos is a GREAT comrade who hates America more than they do.
That’s a crime in several Southern states...
If Obama were President, bet your last DOLLAR he would be pressuring the league to sign Squidward.
The kneeling was terrible, but lost in all this is the fact that if you call Castro a hero then whine about injustice, you are simply too STUPID to be a successful QB in the NFL.
If Kap wants to stay in the NFL, he was being stupid. The Execs don’t like their employees driving the customers away.....again.....no that complicated.
I don ‘t think there is any real question as to the stupidity he did. But the laws we have in place tell a different story.
We have had successful collusion trials, or the threats of them, in sports for years. Sports is unlike singers or dancers like the Dixie Chicks or stage people like Kathy Griffin as they are not bound by a very intricate set of contractual laws.
Probably the first of these types of trials came from Kurt Flood in baseball in 1969. And to say those trials are history it is strongly rumored that Barry Bonds is building a case right now against Major League Baseball.
So don’t think for a second that Colin won’t try to recover his career by going to the courts. It is an outlet. And in way too many cases, rather than be made to look bad, the leagues will fold up like a lawn chair and settle out of court. It’s cheaper and the leagues are made up of owners, not corporations. And they are bloody greedy.
rwood
He’ll have trouble getting his career back. People on the political right are fired all the time for similar activities....jokes, activity against gay marriage, criticizing fake racial incidents..... Take Hank Williams for example. He said something bad about Obama and he was gone. ESPN said they made a business decision because his remarks drove away fans. I found that to be fair enough. ESPN is a business.
Kaeps case just happens to be a case where someone speaking for the political left drove away fans....so now everyone is upset by him being blackballed. It’s business.....no more complicated than that.
If you or I offend our customers in our line of work, we’d be fired too. Besides, no one in the NFL says he’s being denied his career for his political stand. In fact, he was accommodated quite well last season. The NFL played it smart...and Kaep played it dumb.
“Besides, no one in the NFL says he’s being denied his career for his political stand.”
I can’t agree with you here. The owners and the league has raked him over the coals for his actions, and the 49ers released him later to save money, that’s all.
He also has the support of the NFLPA with comments like DeMaurice Smith, head of the NFL Players Association, saying that expecting athletes to “shut up and play” isn’t respecting them as fully human.
Collusion holds a technical meaning under the law. As a general matter in sports, collusion occurs when two or more teams, or the league and at least one team, join to deprive a player of a contractually earned right. Such a right is normally found in the collective bargaining agreement signed by a league and its players’ association. For example, the right of a free-agent player to negotiate a contract with a team cannot be impaired by a conspiracy of teams to deny that a player a chance to sign. I think this point is well taken in that the appearance of collusion alone makes it a case as the league has openly displayed a strong dislike for Kaepernick with it’s actions. And his talking with numerous teams and trying out for some, to be denied with no apparent blaming on talent, remember he got his job back late last years as starter for the 49ers, it adds fuel to the fire.
And the claim that money was an issue at Seattle wasn’t really a true statement as Pete Carroll made it a point to praise him highly. Yet they passed on him for Austin Davis? Tack that on to many teams in the league ready to cut off an arm to get a quarterback 29 years old and only three years removed from a Superbowl win, and a team starter, kind of stinks don’t you think?
This will never make it to court as the league will fold and he will get a job somewhere. Whether he earned it or not by his non-sports actions, is in question. But the collusion law will bail him out.
rwood
You are a passionate person. You may be right. We both shall see. Peace Brother!!
“You may be right.”
In actualities, I wish I was completely out of bounds, but I don’t think I am.
Our country was founded on the principle that a majority ruled and that like thinking people joined to make the towns into communities across the country. They grew into states joined the US with enough like thinking to become a partnership to work within the confines of the nation.
But this has changed. Small amounts of people have created problems for all for their cause by using means that harm rather than ways to compromise in the best interest of both. But it has become the practice not to recognize differences, but to force them upon others when they may not be compatible or even lawful.
Insulting the many that gave their all for this country to further a cause that claims being insulted, is not furthering a cause. At best, it’s breaking even. I was one of those that he insulted. But I believe in the law and letting it play out.
Could he have done it differently rather than embarrass the league and spit in the face of many that earned him the right to make this bad decision? Of course. He could have gotten the opportunity to talk to anyone he wanted with his notoriety. But he chose to harm rather than help. And that’s one of the things that makes this country so great. You have an open opportunity to be an a$$half a lot of legal ways. He took it.
rwood
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