Scholarship table
How many of those "killers, violent offenders and drug users" are back-up QBs? How many are guys who barely see the field? If a controversial player can push a team closer to winning a Super Bowl, he'll find a team. If a guy is a controversial bit player, he's likely going to be unemployed. Is that fair, moral and ethical? No, but that's the way the NFL works...as do most businesses.
I'm shocked how many people are okay with workplace discrimination. The only reason Kap is unemployed is because he exercised a Constitutional right. If he's so offensive, why are the dozens of other players following his lead not also unemployed? He is being discriminated against because he was the first.
I doubt anyone in the NFL is openly racist. The League is too diverse. And, it pays well to all who play in the League. Rather, I agree with the commenters who argue that Mr. Kapernick just brings too much baggage.
Overtly racist? No. But them NFL owners generally like them well behaved blacks versus them ornery ones.
Wait, I thought they prefer to employ "killers, violent offenders and drug users"...
I'm sorry but if the Baltimore Ravens organization is so thin skinned that a tweet by a celebrity (which isn't that far off in terms of accuracy) offends an accessory to murder and that means the Ravens can't sign a player that will help them.....they are a horrible organization and deserve to never win another game.
the involvement of ray lewis here is disturbing to say the least. kap's girlfriend is either dumb like a fox or smart like a bowling ball. she is using kap to further her inner "angela davis" and fan the flames. without the controversy, she may have to return to her day job. if she doesn't send out that racist tweet, her boy friend may have a sunday afternoon job and spike lee can go back to his front row seats at the knicks games
I mean seriously. This tripe is exactly the bullsh*t that I'm talking about.
It will be interesting to see if Michael Bennett takes a knee during the national anthem before Seahawks' games.
You do know that she was a "celebrity" prior to meeting Kaepernick right?
I'm curious what football fans will do when these protests spread throughout the NFL (as I think they will) rather than the current isolated cases that are easier to ignore. Stop watching games entirely? Will be an interesting season...
Yes, fans will turn off the games. The question is to what degree and how deep.
CBS study I linked the other day says exactly that, some fans have turned off the NFL, despite claims here and elsewhere that they haven't. That was the conclusion of CBS sports chairman Sean McManus on their proprietary study. Yes, fans will turn off the games. The question is to what degree and how deep. The NFL will then likely stop having the national anthem televised, meaning they will play it while the players are in the locker room. Many more people on Jim Brown's side of this argument than the current protesters, according to every poll out there.
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