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Yes Colin....you're soooooooooooo oppressed making $12.9 million holding a clipboard.
Career suicide. The only thing this does is make you look stupid. We understand there are issues. Pulling a "Look at me. " accomplishes nothing except alienating yourself.
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I get standing up for what you believe in, but not showing respect for the country and flag is a really bad idea. Especially when it allows you to get paid millions for doing little to nothing.
There are other more impactful ways to influence social change and this ain't one of them.
North Korea Kappy!!
Somehow this just got even better!
I blame his upbringing and early coaching
OMG....That is priceless. Especially the terrible singing
BEST QB OF ALL TIME!
In all seriousness, his NFL career is over. What a clown.
Kapperdick is an African-American? Who knew?
As much of a blowhard Jaws is.
We do not need to misrepresent what he actually said, do we?
a Chance is what he said.
He did not anoint him.
Kap did have a lot of potential. Too bad his ego and head grew faster than his ability to be coached.
After this last crap, he is done. Almost everyone still supporting him will turn their backs on him. ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
Boris posted:Pulling a "Look at me. " accomplishes nothing except alienating yourself.
Well, you kinda have to do some sort of a 'look at me' if you want to make a point. However, I don't agree with this particular tactic.
It's amazing how his career spiraled downward in such a dramatic fashion. He really seemed to be the perfect mix of size and athleticism when he was destroying the Pack a few years ago.
To quote the movie Hook, "bad form Peter, bad form". I get what he's trying to do but this isn't the way you do it. SF fan's are among the most fickle, a-hole fair weather fans who will find any reason to hate you. Way to give them a big reason to. At this point in his career, they might as well insert a RB to play QB. His throws were lousy last night and the only positive thing he can do is run with the ball.
You can get a RB to do that for about 500K a year.
He had one good game vs. Dom Capers defense. RUNNING the football. Not throwing or actually, you know, READING a defense.
I think Henry said it best, He's this era's Duante Culpepper.
He should send Capers Christmas cards every single year because without Capers & that 1 playoff game, he don't get $hit in this league.
Bye Bye Colin....Enjoy Canada.
Colin needs to do some card sending too.
Speaking of things to address in the next CBA when it comes to player discipline...
Colin couldn't hold Culpepper's jock.
He was in the right place at the right time for the read option's 15min in the spotlight. When D's figured out the gimmick, his fate was cast.
The 3rd best QB on the 4th best team in the NFC West whose making $10+ million is really going to open some eyes with this statement.
Tschmack posted:I get standing up for what you believe in, but not showing respect for the country and flag is a really bad idea. Especially when it allows you to get paid millions for doing little to nothing.
There are other more impactful ways to influence social change and this ain't one of them.
North Korea Kappy!!
What are the acceptable forms of commenting on social change that Kaepernick is allowed to engage in?
The Stallion sits for what he believes in. #takeasit
Goodness. Kaep wishes he could be Daunte Culpepper.
How about doing something in the community?
You know, besides banging Aldon Smiths girlfriend.
Muhammad Ali did some controversial and anti patriotic things to bring awareness to social issues. The only thing different with this is that Kap is a no talent ass clown.
Muhammad Ali had the courage of his convictions: he was actually willing to go to jail to protest the draft. The Kaepernicks of the world are just virtue-signalling.
(And I say this even though my opinion is that playing the national anthem before sporting events in general is an outdated idea that should be done away with.)
Ali was in a different time & era than now. What Ali did needed to be done back then & I GUARANTEE YOU, Kap would NEVER go to jail for his so called "convictions" like Ali did.
Apples & Oranges.
Kaepernick is a wanna-be douchebag that's grasping at everything he can to be relevant.
I've been wrong before.
- Ron Jaworski
Boxing is not a team sport, and Ali wasn't governed by a CBA.
Boris posted:Ali was in a different time & era than now. What Ali did needed to be done back then & I GUARANTEE YOU, Kap would NEVER go to jail for his so called "convictions" like Ali did.
Apples & Oranges.
Kaepernick is a wanna-be douchebag that's grasping at everything he can to be relevant.
IMO Ali, was right about his refusal to the draft. I used to process out people who had a "deeply held belief" that prevented service in the armed forces. Today Ali would have been granted that exception.
CK is just trying to be "relevant" in a world that has passed him by. If he is looking for "street cred" from the AA community he is probably pissing off a lot of AA's in the service to their country .
Besides he is not that good of a QB or even a role model.
Only all pro QBs can express their opinions
He can express his opinions anywhere, anytime, any way he wants...except for when he is in/on an NFL field.
If he chooses to do that, then he needs permission from his coach, teammates, owners, and the league. To do otherwise is just a chicken**** action.
Maybe he should be outraged at all the shootings / killings in, say, Chicago, of average people. Oh, right, those don't matter so much.
Timmy! posted:He can express his opinions anywhere, anytime, any way he wants...except for when he is in/on an NFL field.
If he chooses to do that, then he needs permission from his coach, teammates, owners, and the league. To do otherwise is just a chicken**** action.
Now what?
.@NFL comment on Kaepernick's anthem stance: "Players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the National Anthem."
โ Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 27, 2016
LOL, think he'll do it again?
Fact is Kaep not standing for the National Anthem is not the story here. Can have an opionion that he should stand like he has an opinion why he shouldn't. I think he should. But I get his reasonings for not. It's ok to disagree. He's not wrong for why he chose to take this action. Some innocent individuals doing nothing wrong were killed by police. There is no disputing that. Some innocent police officers were ambushed and killed for doing their job as well.
Dwayne Wade (along with Carmello Anthony, LeBron James, and Chris Paul) all spoke out about gun violence and police shootings of black individuals at the ESPY's. They all made educated and thoughtful comments.
Yesterday Dwayne Wades 32 year old cousin was shot in the head at 3:30 in the afternoon in Chicago while pushing her baby in a stroller and walking her three older to register for elementary school. She's dead. Caught in the crossfire of more random gun violence. How incredibly ****ed up is that? And who knows how many other places that same scene played out yesterday in other cities.
This country, everyone in this country, needs to get real and have a serious come to Jesus discussion about gun violence. About equitable opportunity for every child in this country to get a real chance to grow up safe and be given a real chance to earn a sound education.
Standing for the anthem? Much, much bigger issues to tackle. Colin better choose to carry his fight though. That's all I ask of him.
I'm pretty sure Colin is just an petulant child and not a social justice warrior.
Yawn.
Can he be a cowboy too
that would be awsum
Great idea.
excalibur posted:Maybe he should be outraged at all the shootings / killings in, say, Chicago, of average people. Oh, right, those don't matter so much.
Exactly! Let's stop all violence AMIRITE GUYS? I know you're really outraged about Chicago!
However, like me, I'm sure you are even more outraged about the killings in Alturas CA, which has a murder rate of 152.96/100K vs Chicago's 15.09/100K! I mean given your humanist position, I'm sure this is not news to you!
So, yeah, why doesn't Kapernick get outraged all violence, whether in Chicago or Alturas, CA! Why does he only seem to be focused on historical and systematic racism and violence that has been going on for hundreds of years to a very specific group of people, when there are killings and shooting in lots of places man!
smdh
It's good seeing someone like yourself that cares only about murder rates and violence. I'm sure, like me, you must be 10x more outraged about Alturas CA's violence! Almost 10x higher murders per capita than Chicago! DISGUSTING! Why aren't you focused on that Colin? That's your state man!
So, kudos to you for being so very concerned about violence of all sorts, excalibur!
I mean, it would take someone mighty cynical to not believe with 100% certainty that you are not truly outraged about all violence in America. Or to think you're just trotting out meaningless talking points not related to what Kaepernick is doing because that's what Hannity or Bill O or Rushbo or whatever talking head tells you to say because you lack the mental capacity to think for yourself. Or to think your "BUT BUT BUT CHICAGO" is little more than a not at all subtle dogwhistle that you use because you don't have the brass to say what you really mean about "those" people on a family website.
But, I know that isn't you! You are truly outraged about violence. But as a small favor, I'd ask for you to not forget Alturas CA where there are 10X murders per capita than even Chicago when you continue your comments on the horrors of violence in America!
Not to mention he was raised upper-middle class by two white parents.
"Love me, hate me, just don't ignore me!"
Far greater athletes, and far greater men have addressed social injustice far more eloquently than this turd ever could or ever will. Men like Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Bill Russell, Arthur Ashe and Hank Aaron. Men who were icons in their sport...not some has-been with a rap sheet.
PackFoo posted:Not to mention he was raised upper-middle class by two white parents.
Because people raised by upper middle class by two white parents can't speak out against police brutality?
This freedom stuff that Kaepernick didn't stand up for last night is way more complicated and has way more disclaimers than I thought...
...or he's a petulant child.
My money is on that.
"What nobody wants to say, but what it all boils down to, is that no message of any importance regarding race or inequality was delivered by someone who wears a hat backwards."
- John Newton
