Kaepernick sits out the anthem

I would say $60 to $80 million would be worth that.

 

Won't anyone think of the garage attendants?

 

Well, you would.

But you’re not the guy who was silently banned from a league for what you believe in.

 

I don't think the NFL was worried about being proven to have colluded - I think the NFL was worried about owners being exposed as racists, damaging fan interest and relationships with players.
They could argue that they felt keeping Kaepernick off of rosters was protecting teams from distractions or backlash from other groups - if the league was shown as disrespecting black people, they would have lost advertisers.

I did think it was interesting that the league seemed to go out of its way to embrace civil rights history in Atlanta this go-round. It wasn't like this was the first Super Bowl in Atlanta.

 

Kaepernick isn't Emile Zola in the Dreyfus case. He was a plaintiff suing because he had suffered significant unjust financial injury. The settlement is a redress of that grievance, and if it's as much as rumored (always best to be skeptical, but let's assume) then it's roughly a starting QB's salary for each of the years he's been out of the league. That seems roughly just, even generous. And it certainly has yet to be rumored that the settlement includes him renouncing his desire to play in the NFL. To repeat myself, the league took every possible legal measure to win a suit filed by its most visible star (a white one, we must add) over a four-game suspension on the most trivial matter imaginable. If it gave Kaepernick and Reid big money to end their complain, it wasn't because the league thought it was winning.

 

Evidence would suggest he feels that settlement was acceptable too.

 

Don't get a needle too close to her head. It might pop.

 

No, taking a settlement doesn’t necessarily mean he was entirely right, they were all wrong and, by the sheer grace of Kaep, he decided not to expose the NFL for what it is.

That’s perhaps what you’d like it to mean, and it may mean just that. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that.

 

OK.

 

I agree with this. I’m confident the NFL was gonna look real bad in this.

I’m surprised Kaepernick didn’t want to see the NFL suffer the full freight of its sins tho. The NFL didn’t suffer much at all.

 

I have to think NFL owners would probably win a "most arrogant" contest against all comers. US Senators, local news anchors, Book publishers, fashion designers, restauranteurs, hedge fund managers...

 

With rich shits like that, having to give Kaepernick and Reid ANY money, let alone many millions, will sting like hell.