However, as players use social media and large companies to build their personal brand, some are able to build a very lucrative career outside of sports that will keep paying them long after they are done playing. Obviously Kaepernick is the model for that. Giving these groups to keep them quiet is the cost of doing business. It's a bribe. Businesses do it all the time. But the NFL treats the police very well. That much I know.
believe what you want ... I have an inside source ... it’s not a bribe, it’s protection money ...