Kaepernick sits out the anthem

He has been extremely dickish to media for years. His press conference word count Sunday night have exceeded his total for 2013 and 2014 combined. That's obviously a strange issue that involves a lot of whining self-important sportswriters, but even fans started to wonder what his problem was.

As for the front-office stuff, his reputation was collateral damage of the 49ers-Harbaugh feud, because the team needed someone besides the owner and GM to blame for the collapse. And the 49ers' front office has become legendary for talking shit about people in private and with no accountability. Last year's games were a never-ending parade of nuggets fed to broadcasters about his work ethic or attitude.

 

Such opposition is not always a bad thing. I'm simply pointing out that in attempt to block one country's interest we were acting in conjunction with other countries' interests.

There are always consequences, both anticipated and unanticipated. It is simply to MMQB and say that are backing of the mujahideen would obviously lead to a group of radicalized students eventually seizing power.

Hindsight is 20-20, and there would have been unanticipated consequences of working in conjunction with the Soviets, whether we did that actively or passively. We'll just never what those consequences might have been.

 

Seems like a basic business move where the shield thinks he's hurting the bottom line. What is the demographic makeup of the overall NFL fanbase? Mostly conservative I'd think and of course overwhelmingly white. What percentage of them aren't pleased by kaepernicks stance? I haven't seen any national polls as yet of people who call themselves fans, but I'm willing to bet that 60 percent or higher aren't cool with it. He's not Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers, so why would they want to put up with the headache? Of course it'd have been more interesting to see this happening when he was the next big thing.

 

Colin Kaepernick's hometown of Turlock turns its back on native son

At Pitman, people have been forbidden to talk about Kaepernick. The football coaches and teachers have been silenced by the school district. Even the principal, Amy Curd, known as Kaepernick's favorite teacher, couldn't speak about him.

 

Villains sell.

 

The last six grafs of that piece were...bad. It goes from straight reporting to a kind of sermonizing that imagines a Turlockian "fondue" on Kaepernick being washed off. Or something.

 

And I was just saying to myself "This story really needs another story about people whose feelings are hurt."

 

In the WWE, yes; when it's the iron sheik and Nikolai Volkov. The NFL wont package and sell kaep as a villain. They'll just blackball him

 

I am just thinking about the potential shitstorm with him sitting tonight during Military Honors Night at Qualcomm..

Then I think about how Chip is the micromanageriest of micromanagers - wasn't he the guy testing the player's pee - not for drugs, but just to find the slightest edge in performance?

This must be driving Chip nuts.

 

Paul Finebaum belly flops into the discussion:

http://deadspin.com/espns-paul-finebaum-this-country-is-not-oppressing-bl-1786030741

 

Will Colin sit out the next National Anthem in order to protest this clear violation of the First Amendment? I'll join him if he does.

 

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