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The Morning Briefing: Sorry, Brett Favre—Colin Kaepernick Is a Failed Quarterback, Not an Activist Hero
PJ Media ^ | 22 June 2020 | Stephen Kruiser

Posted on 06/22/2020 7:20:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Some Tough Truths About Colin Kaepernick

The pampered mobs who have taken over Seattle and portions of other liberal dumpster-fire cities have been flailing about for a leader whom they can crown as King of the #Resistance. The Idiot Dictator in charge of the National Football League and his suddenly woke players seem to want that figurehead to be one of its more spectacular failures, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Kaepernick hasn’t been in the league for a few years now but the woke mob keeps him in the national conversation. Nike made Kaepernick a constant presence via finger-wagging advertising that transformed him from failed quarterback to martyr, which is probably the job he really wants.

There is a lot of speculation that Kaepernick really doesn’t want to be back in the NFL, he just wants to be the guy who gets to whine about being kept out of the NFL.

The conversation focusing on Kaepernick long ago stopped being about his football skills. The prevailing politically correct narrative is that he was drummed out of the NFL because he was kneeling in protest during the National Anthem before each game. Anyone who suggests otherwise is immediately branded a racist.

It’s a brilliant PR campaign. Kaepernick hasn’t played a down in three years but is still spoken about as if he would be ready to take the field tomorrow. Even President Trump has mentioned that Kaepernick should be given another shot at playing. Clown car driver and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is keeping Kaepernick’s name in conversations that no one really wanted him to be a part of.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Georgia; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: blackliesmatter; brettfavre; california; colinkaepernick; georgia; nfl; wisconsin
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To: Rummyfan

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” - Mark Twain


21 posted on 06/22/2020 7:53:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Rummyfan
Dear Brett,

You sure are a jerk. Just think about the epigraph on your tombstone. "Here lies Brett Favre. Best known for kissing the ass of Colin Kaepernick. Oh...and we think he may have played football, not sure."

22 posted on 06/22/2020 8:12:03 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school.)
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To: Rummyfan

And Brett, you’re a blanking loser.


23 posted on 06/22/2020 8:14:10 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Rummyfan

Vicodin is a helluva drug.


24 posted on 06/22/2020 8:14:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: scottiemom

Sorry, that should read “epitaph”. I hate spell check.


25 posted on 06/22/2020 8:15:37 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school.)
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To: Rummyfan
Favre told TMZ Sports in a video interview that Kaepernick's willingness to sacrifice his NFL career to fight for social justice felt reminiscent of Tillman's sacrifice for his country. Tillman, a safety for the Arizona Cardinals, chose to leave the NFL for the U.S. Army in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001. He was killed by friendly fire in 2004 while deployed in Afghanistan. "I can only think of — right off the top of my head — Pat Tillman's another guy who did something similar, and we regard him as a hero," Favre said. "So I'd assume that hero status will be stamped with Kaepernick as well." Favre was asked by the TMZ Sports interviewer if Kaepernick had reached the stature of Jackie Robinson or Muhammad Ali for helping break societal barriers.

Kaepernick is an angry Black male who stunk at football.

26 posted on 06/22/2020 8:25:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Howie66

Guess I won’t be buying any of that copper fit junk after all. Brett has enough $$ at $100 mil anyways.


27 posted on 06/22/2020 8:25:26 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Trump in 2020)
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To: 1Old Pro

Kaepernick is no Curt Flood.


28 posted on 06/22/2020 8:49:50 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: spincaster
Please just go away and be remembered for being great.

Nope, now he will be remembered for siding with the haters of our great America, that's it.

Favre didn't just cross a line... ...he fumbled in his own endzone, pottied on his own Country and his (once-and-former) fans, and thus he ensured his place in the dustbin of forgotten ingrate millionaires.

29 posted on 06/22/2020 9:14:22 AM PDT by Seaplaner
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To: Rummyfan

I hope some team offers him a job this year, since it is mostly a lost year anyway.

I hope they put him in for all the pre-seaason games.

I’m guessing he will suck.

At some point, the left will say that he is being treated unfairly, and if you honor “Black Lives Matter”, you will stop tackling him in the backfield.


30 posted on 06/22/2020 9:14:25 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I hope some team offers him a job this year

Me too

31 posted on 06/22/2020 9:15:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Whoever signs him will be stuck starting him & they never will be able to bench or cut him.


32 posted on 06/22/2020 9:19:42 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Rummyfan

And what is forgotten in all this... HE OPTED OUT of a multimillion$ final year with the 49ers. Nobody forced him out of the NFL.


33 posted on 06/22/2020 9:38:57 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Divide the country... it's the only path to survival.)
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To: Rummyfan

Brett Favray took too many hits to the head! He’s a phuckin idiot now!!


34 posted on 06/22/2020 10:05:37 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: Rummyfan

Brett, please shut up, Thank You. A former fan of yours...


35 posted on 06/22/2020 10:10:51 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-)could you shove)
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To: OKITRUMP77

“I just wonder what guys like Yogi Berra would say in times like this.”

People don’t shop there because of the rioting it’s because there’s nothing left in the store from the looting?


36 posted on 06/22/2020 10:20:29 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rummyfan

The word “hero” has no application whatever to people who play games, whether professionally or for recreation; and especially to those who throw tantrums during those games. The criteria for heroism are beyond the capability or inclination of such overgrown children.


37 posted on 06/22/2020 10:20:43 AM PDT by DPMD (uo)
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To: Rummyfan
As for Brett Favre, he must have fallen off his tractor or gotten kicked in the head by a mule.
Can't rule out STI, or inherent stupidity.

38 posted on 06/22/2020 10:53:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

He’s being romanticized by the Media the way Curt Flood was when he refused a trade to from St. Louis to Philadelphia. The difference is that Curt Flood’s case eventually lead to the legal abolition of Baseball’s reserve clause. So while Flood didn’t want to play anymore, he (or rather his lawyers) actually achieved something lasting. Is there anything positive likely to happen from Kaepernick’s on-again/off-again career? I really don’t see it.


39 posted on 06/22/2020 11:52:41 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Can't rule out STI, or inherent stupidity.

After some thought on the matter, I opt for inherent stupidity.

40 posted on 06/22/2020 5:29:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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