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Kaepernick’s Super Bowl close call has lasting impact on NFL
AP ^ | 2/2/20 an hour ago | By EDDIE PELLS

Posted on 02/02/2020 11:26:16 AM PST by conservative98

One play. Five yards. A flag that wasn’t thrown.

Seven years ago at the Super Bowl, history was made when a 49ers receiver, unable to break free from the prying hands of a harassing cornerback, could not grab a pass on fourth-and-goal that would have given San Francisco the go-ahead score late in the game against the Baltimore Ravens.

The Niners lost that game 34-31 and were relegated to the forgettable list of very good NFL teams who came in second place. For the man who threw that pass, Colin Kaepernick, things have never been the same.

The same could be said about the NFL.

The 49ers made it back to the Super Bowl this year, but Kaepernick had nothing to do with this trip. His name has barely been mentioned. In most instances, this would simply be another example of the relentless churn of players through a league that chews them up and spits them out. But at 32, Kaepernick could, conceivably, be in his prime. Instead, he has been out of the league for three years.

And yet, if there’s a single player who brought this league to a point of reckoning — who exposed it for what it is, what it is not, and what it could still be when it comes to shaping conversations about the American experience that cascade well beyond the football field — it is that now-unemployed quarterback out of Nevada who came 5 yards from winning the Super Bowl in 2013.

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KEYWORDS: africanstudies; chat; eddiepells; football; kaepernick; marcushunter; nfl; sports; superbowl
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“By losing that job, he gained a legacy, a career,” said Marcus Hunter, chair of the department of African-American Studies at UCLA. “Now, he has more than a job. He’s an activist-minded thought leader about the state of race in America. A lot of young people, including a lot who I teach, often find themselves sitting there waiting to see what he is going to say.”
1 posted on 02/02/2020 11:26:16 AM PST by conservative98
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Kaepernick = shite


2 posted on 02/02/2020 11:29:41 AM PST by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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Eddie Pells,

"Instead of being forever known as a Super Bowl champion, Kaepernick will go down as the quarterback who kneeled"....and who wore cops are pigs socks. He is a bum.


3 posted on 02/02/2020 11:31:10 AM PST by conservative98
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I think maybe the NFL should offer him a helicopter ride to the game....


4 posted on 02/02/2020 11:31:41 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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I think maybe the NFL should offer him a helicopter ride to the game....

Courtesy of the "Pinochet Helicopter Company".

5 posted on 02/02/2020 11:33:03 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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What if @49ers and @kaepernick7 had won that game?https://t.co/lEROgT8dAO— Eddie Pells (@epells) February 2, 2020

Eddie, What if he didn't wear cops are pigs socks?

6 posted on 02/02/2020 11:33:25 AM PST by conservative98
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The only thing Kaepernick exposed is himself. And who he is ain’t pretty.


7 posted on 02/02/2020 11:34:27 AM PST by be-baw
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To: conservative98
"A lot of young people, including a lot who I teach, often find themselves sitting there waiting to see what he is going to say.”


8 posted on 02/02/2020 11:34:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: conservative98

often find themselves sitting there waiting to see what he is going to say.”
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Me too!!!

I wait with bated breath for any and all statements pouring from the likes of K, DHogg, any of the LIB pResidential candidates etc to see if they can top themselves in the idiocy and plain old asinine department.

The ‘team’ of Pelosi, Biden, Warren, Bernie, Hillary and thier ilk(age wise) have set back us folks over 80 as every time they speak America gets to see what they perceive is how senile, stupid and nonsensical people over 70 are


9 posted on 02/02/2020 11:34:58 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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He is an ingrate entitled prima donna. Why do cops look at black men? Because black men commit an out of proportionate amount of crime. Next question.


10 posted on 02/02/2020 11:37:18 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: conservative98

He did more to set back the NFL than any other player in league history, by a country mile. I quit watching football because of what he created.


11 posted on 02/02/2020 11:38:28 AM PST by Professional
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Nick Bosa wants a chance to meet Trump and he said he is going to do everything he can to win.

The other side has players who like Trump, too.


12 posted on 02/02/2020 11:41:58 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: BenLurkin

If true that is pathetic.


13 posted on 02/02/2020 11:44:57 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: conservative98

I don’t care if someone is Kaepernick’s girlfriend, wife, mother, sister, cousin or best friend.

I don’t care if someone is Kaepernick himself.

The reality of this whole farce is that Kaepernick has made a grand total of about 10 statements on ‘his’ issue, especially at the time he was an active NFL player.

All the exposition, speculation, condemnation, indignation and accusation has come from....wait for it...THE MEDIA.

One sports talker after another piously informed us that ‘there is a problem with injustice in this country blah blah effing blah.’

They repeated all the myths. All the lies. All the narratives. All the received wisdom.

They had no idea what Kaepernick was actually saying - because he wasn’t saying much. And when he did it was one or two sentences of absolute cliche. Everything else was media-driven - which, of course, they loved because it allowed them carte blanche to get political.

If they want injustice I have some for them:

-people living cradle to grave in relative luxury on someone else’s dime. Furnished apartment or house, heat, A/C, flat panel TV, smartphone, food (without requirements for nutritional value), health care, child care, school (aka free babysitting).

-12% of the population committing 50% of the crime with most of that 50% of a violent or extreme nature (eg hard drugs)

-Exorbitant taxes to pay for all of the above

-The need to move 10, 20 even 30 miles from a city center in order to obtain land, schools, housing and neighborhoods that are relatively safe without the need for constant police patrols

-Police who treat property crime with a shrug and ask ‘aren’t you insured?’

-Being blamed for the ills of society while receiving no credit or having credit misattributed in the areas of engineering, science, medicine, commerce, manufacturing etc etc.

-Opening borders to terrorists, criminals, spongers, chancers, pimps and birth tourists.

Our society is well out of whack. But for reasons very different to the ones Kap and his mindless minions espouse.


14 posted on 02/02/2020 11:57:04 AM PST by relictele
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To: conservative98

It seems that the concept of “kaepernick” will never die. Maybe it will be added to the Oxford dictionary next.


15 posted on 02/02/2020 12:00:01 PM PST by bkopto
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To: dfwgator
Courtesy of the "Pinochet Helicopter Company".

LOL. There's room in that copter for a bug-eyed lunatic, but polluting the oceans faster than they can recover is a bad thing.

16 posted on 02/02/2020 12:02:57 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (Time is what no one gets more of on this Earth.)
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To: conservative98

17 posted on 02/02/2020 12:11:34 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: conservative98
The Niners lost that game 34-31 and were relegated to the forgettable list of very good NFL teams who came in second place. For the man who threw that pass, Colin Kaepernick, things have never been the same

Feel good story of the day.

18 posted on 02/02/2020 12:18:21 PM PST by greenishness
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Hey Eddie.

Give it a rest. Kaepernick will never be your boyfriend.

You don’t make nearly enough money to be his sugar daddy.


19 posted on 02/02/2020 12:22:36 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: conservative98

Kaepernick should have been more grateful to what he was given by his country. He’s just another whiner who blames how his life turned out on something or someone other than himself. It could be he just has a mental problem that needs to be treated.


20 posted on 02/02/2020 12:54:04 PM PST by Crucial
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