Fuck Kaepernick and Fuck Goodell ... Fuck both of these assholes ... period.
Exactly!
Phil Mushnick sums it up perfectly below.
To think pro ballplayers once had to have offseason jobs to get by. Small wonder many of today’s fabulously enriched pros have an exaggerated, even fantastic sense of self-entitlement.
Who’s to prevent it? They’re invited to live in a world that doesn’t correspond with our orbit. And no one to explain or tell them otherwise. Certainly not Roger Goodell.
In the case of Colin Kaepernick, now over three years old, Goodell, as is his habit, avoided telling plain, practical, common-sense, good-for-all truths. Instead, he led with his feckless, patronizing, pandering make-it-go-away senses that only extended and exacerbated the issue.
First, let’s put the Kaepernick case in context with the world in which most of us live:
You own a prosperous store that sells specialty products in a prosperous niche industry, much like an NFL team owner.
One day, Colin, one of your best-paid employees, ambushes your customers at the front door by kneeling to protest something unrelated to the business, say, bear hunting.
You tell Colin, “OK, you’ve made your point. Now, cut it out.” The store owner doesn’t want to make his customers uneasy, especially his best, steadiest customers, lest they never return.
But the next day, Colin does it again.
Left with no choice other than to let his business decline and lay off other employees, you pay Colin what you owe him, then let him go.
Soon Colin discovers that word of his on-the-job behavior has spread throughout the niche industry. He can’t find work with his previous boss’s competitors. With the industry having determined that he’s bad for business, Colin combats this sensible conclusion by suing for collusion.
The court quickly dismisses the case as not merely frivolous but ridiculous.
But then we have Goodell’s NFL, which this week reached a financial settlement with Kaepernick, who sued for collusion to prevent his further NFL employment for exploiting NFL games, TV and the national anthem to protest police brutality.
He couldn’t have called for a rally? Or would that have drawn flies?
What prevented Goodell, from the start, from explaining why Kaepernick’s chosen venue for protest was in everyone’s, including Kapernick’s fellow players’, worst interests? If Kaepernick and others didn’t know it’s a business, one worth protecting, where did their multimillion-dollar deals come from?
And why didn’t Goodell tell the truth about Kaepernick’s conspicuous game-day, national anthem activism?
Kaepernick is not your standard protester of world conditions such as global warming or bear hunting. He doesn’t aspire to altruistic social change. At last word he’s not even registered to vote. He’s a fringe lunatic, radicalized in thought and deeds.
His police brutality protests are appalling in that he apparently supports the brutalization — and worse — of police. He is a fundraising booster of Joanne Chesimard, now Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member in exile in Cuba after her conviction for participating in the traffic-stop execution of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who, at 34, left a wife and 3-year-old son.
Foerster was shot with his own gun, then left to die. His partner was wounded.
It therefore can be reasonably surmised that Kaepernick, while anti-police brutality — who isn’t? — is supportive of those who murder cops. Goodell miss that? How? Why? Irrelevant? How about Nike, Kaepernick’s capitalist business partner and universal influence peddler?
Kaepernick is also a conspicuous acolyte of communist revolutionary Che Guevara, whose sense of justice and free expression was to execute opponents — real or imagined — without trial, when, as researchers claim, he wasn’t holding a Nazi-style book-burning and issuing death warrants for Cuban writers who dissented with his ideology.
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And now Nike, which steadily appears on the list of companies that financially and physically abuse Third World laborers to slap together hideously overpriced status-symbol sneakers — also apparently meeting with Kaepernick’s approval — has issued a Kaepernick jersey to celebrate his triumph over the NFL. Surprise! It’s Nike black.
Why doesn’t Nike support the courage of Kaepernick’s convictions by selling those socks depicting police as pigs, worn by Kaepernick for the cameras while also wearing shorts during practice?
You see, if I, and perhaps you, were Goodell, I’d have told Kaepernick, from the start, that the NFL doesn’t owe him a living, so get lost and stay there. Better yet, go to hell. I would not have allowed him to game the game. But Goodell’s NFL paid him off — maybe with your “good investment” PSL money.