My Kaepernick thread

[doneagain]

I don't agree with his actions, and I am sure he loses sleep at night over it, but he can do what he wants to do.

The thing I find funny is that he has filed a grievance against the NFL alleging collusion by NFL owners since none of them want to commit financial and media suicide by hiring him. That to me tells me he isn't man enough to accept the repercussions of his actions. He is okay to get the attention and get the pats on the back, and he can take the taunting by those who disagree with him, but tell him you don't want to hire him so he can continue to make millions playing a game because he is not worth the headache he would bring with him and he can't take it and files a suit.

You made your bed, lay in it and accept the consequences for your actions. You wanted to be immortalized as a martyr of a cause and you got it. But you are no Ghandi.

 

[op2]

I haven't see where he's filed suit. I doubt he could win a suit. I personally don't think taking the knee during the NA is the right way to go about it but that said my larger problem is with the NFL by opening the door to all this in the first place. It's football...it's entertainment...I'm watching because I like football and because I want to get away from the political BS for awhile. Given that you play the NA before every game and have the players stand there it's only a matter of time before one of them does something other than stand and from then on it's game on, everyone doing their political thing, yadda, yadda. Kaepernick couldn't have knelt during the NA if the NFL didn't play the NA with the players standing to begin with.

I do think that if Kaepernick had it to do over again he'd have gone about expressing his opinions differently because the NFL is a big, big stage and he is now denied it. He could have had that stage for a long time had he been more careful about it.

There are some stinky QBs in the league this year. There's no doubt that on merit alone Kaepernick is good enough to be in the NFL and some say that as a result he should be in the league. But the reality of the situation is and always has been that how much of a distraction the NFL will tolerate depends on how good a player you are. If Kaepernick was Tom Brady he'd still be playing. OTOH if Kaepernick was worse than he is then he'd have been cut the first week after he knelt for the first time. That's the way it works. It's the NFL's game and if you want to play you have to play by their rules.