Colin Kaepernick, shunned by the NFL, named Week 1 MVP by the player's union

Mashable ^ | 9/16/2017 | adam rosenberg

[bkopto]

Professional NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick can't find a team to call home in the National Football League, but that didn't stop the NFL Player's Association from celebrating his charity work this week.

The official player's union of the NFL named Kap as the organization's Week 1 "Community MVP" on Friday. He received the honor "for his commitment to empowering underserved communities through donations and grassroots outreach," the NFLPA announcement notes.

[Brown Deer]

[Dawgreg]

I remember watching that show when I was a wee lass. Loved it and saw it a few more times before Jesse and the NAACP decided we shouldn’t be allowed to see it anymore.

[TheConservativeTejano]

Colin Kaepernick, shunned by the NFL, named Week 1 MVP by the player's union

To think that I was Colin Kaepernick biggest fan when he played at U. of Nevada Reno. He stood up and showed the proper etiquette for the National Anthem.

Now, I really hate this man for taking a knee at every NFL football game. Goodell needs to be fired right now for allowing this to even happen.

The NFL is taking a big hit right now on the $$$ side and it is going to get much worse in $$$S losses for all teams.

[usconservative]

Checked in on a few games today -- plenty of empty seats in every single one of them.

Keep it up NFL Players, keep it up!

[dfwgator]

Must be all that wintery weather....oh wait, it’s still summer.

[joshua c]

They are all going to have more time for charity work if they do not clean up their act.

[ConservaTeen]

CK got the MVP of week 1? Will CK get it for week 2 to 17, too.? Why not make an award for the biggest fool in the NFL and name it ‘The Colin Kapperdink Moronic Valueless Player award’?

[ConservaTeen]

In Green Bay, I read, that if your parents signed you up for season tickets the day you were born, you might get them when you are 175 years old...that’s the waiting list for the community owned Packers...

[elpadre]

I love the bands, cheerleaders, and all the rest that goes with college and high school football. But ESPN as well as CBS Sports, NBC Sports and ABC Sports all refuse to let the viewers see them. They seem to think we enjoy the announcers and commentators, whom I dislike intensely.

If I am able to get the game on radio, I will watch the game on TV with sound muted and listen to the radio broadcast.

[dfwgator]

Thankfully the USC-Texas game was on Fox, they are much better than ESPN/ABC.

[trisham]

I hear you, but I have to say that Tony Romo was excellent today doing color commentary for the Patriots-Saints game. Just incredible.

[Impy]

“Community MVP” is for charity work, not playing. Deliberately misleading, inflammatory headline.

[The Fop]

The players unions destroyed professional sports.

I remember the old Cincinnati Red Machine in the mid 70’s. Manager Sparky Anderson had a rule that no player could have any facial hair. Individual teams had the power to enforce those kinds of rules regarding decorum. At least MLB still has some class, mainly due to players not wanting a 95 mph fastball thrown at their head by an opposing pitcher.

Before the players unions came along, they didn’t need a special penalty for “taunting”. That’s the difference between the era of Jim Brown and the era of Colin Kaepernick.

[VideoPaul]

The NFL players union, already suffering from a lack of credibility, just removed any it had left. Kapernick, the B-/C+ erstwhile quarterback, couldn’t get a gig this year and is failing to do anything constructive as a result. Mr. Kapernick is afflicted with a world class case of inability to use failure as a positive motivator, he is busy protesting a nebulous problem while his career dissipation light looks like the scene of a shooting after the gendarmes arrive.

So the NFL players union has voted a non-player as its most valuable player, thus completely ignoring players who DO have a job, and de-legitimizing itself to the point of slapstick laughabiry.

When a bunch of guys who earn a MINIMUM of just under a half-million dollars a year for hard hits and incomplete sentences call someone who hadn’t worked in months and has no job prospects itsmost important member, it lays bare the fact that this labor union is nothing more than a punch line to a joke nobody told.

The NFL needs to go back to when football was a thinking man’s game, and conducted with honor.

[TheConservativeTejano]

Yup, a lot of empty seats is just what I wanted to see as proof that Goodell has to be fired now by the owners or the NFL will be history in just a just a few short years.

Also, college football is much more fun to see and the players do not have an axe to grind even though 70% of the NFL players are black and they make a lot of $$$$.

This alone tells ya these NFL players and Roger Goodell are playing with fire right now.

[Pollster1]

He is certainly the most valuable player living. Single-handed, he changed NFL’s income by over $1B (negative, but still a big change). That’s quite an accomplishment for a single individual, especially a 2-14 loser who is not even playing.

[onona]

I wonder how many of the mega-wealthy team owners realize that it's over, that the point of no return has been passed.

Oh they know all right Tom, their just playing out (kabuki style) their hands over the next 10 years.

All waves crest.

[Neoliberalnot]

This punkass, jive African should give up football and become a Muslim imam.

[Neoliberalnot]

I recall seeing wild man Riggins at parties at the university of Kansas.

[Artemis Webb]

During that Superbowl they showed Riggins on the sidelines and he took that moment to spit on the ground. John Madden, in that manic voice he always had goes, “Look at him spit. Look at him spit. He even spits like a great running back!”