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Dang itYou would have preferred a Toby shirt?
but it's hardly offensive or even relevant.
What? Not relevant?.. It's not relevant if you are trying to get a job in the NFL as a QB... It's definitely relevant if you are protester screaming oppression by the US.
And the only offense that I have is for you of all people to claim that you can't see it... sheezzzz
Now who's doing the protesting?
Your right Chuck... It was just a T-shirt that he grabbed on his way out the door... Not trying to make a statement...
But wait... if he had went to the workout the NFL had set up with no media... His shirt and statement would not have gotten out...
And the choice of a Kunta Kinte shirt? The story of an African captured as a slave and brought to America..
The whole thing certainly didn't help him at all, even harmed him in the end. I think he's pretty much done now and I'm not sure if it was him or his team, agent/lawyer whatever. But this could have gone much better for everyone and it was pretty much a shirt show.
Like I said...I don't think there was any real intention by the NFL to have him on a team. However, they can use his actions to validate their position
If his true intention was to get on a team, then his actions assisted the NFL in sabotaging him (if my opinion on the NFL's intentions is correct).
However, if he does see himself as a martyr mistreated by the NFL and a victim in all this, his actions make more sense in that his intention was to get his cause in the news again. It remains to see if he was effective in that
Well, for whatever it's worth, if Kaep made a good faith effort to agree to the NFL's parameters and did the workout, then if some team agrees to sign him (granted, that was far from likely) to be their backup, he could afford himself the protections from the NFLPA. I would think the NFLPA has the ability to ensure Kaep is protected under the current CBA. I just think the whole fiasco was either short-sighted, or he had no genuine interest in playing for the NFL again and was just looking for an angle to get another settlement payout from the NFL.
I don't think the NFL was serious either. It was a shirt show from both parties, obviously for different reasons.
I will respond to this quickly (FTP + Kap post = quickly, YEAH RIGHT! LOL!) because Dave, you are my message board brother, and this post just baffles me.
I don't get the both sides-ism of this. The NFL has repeatedly, almost consistently, shown themselves to be bad actors in a multitude of situations. It just really confuses me that anyone would expect anyone else to take the NFL at their word.
Kap asks for transparency; to have his workout open to the media. So the league won't be in sole control of possessing and disseminating his workout video. They refuse. First, I wonder what public perception would be if you flipped that. If the NFL said, let's make it public and Kap refused. There would be a bevy of persons accusing Kap of having something to hide. And, yet, some persons are acting like its unreasonable that Kap wanted to ensure transparency and didn't trust the league. Really? Raise your hand if you have seen the Spygate tapes? Or the Spygate notes? You haven't? Why? Oh, that's right, Roger Goodell destroyed the video and the notes AFTER determining the Patriots were guilty. What was his reason? He said it was the right thing to do, BB admitted to the taping and he didn't want the tapes to get in the hands of competitors. Riiiight. That is the league that we want Kap to trust to have sole possession of his workout video. That commissioner, that NFL.
Well, okay FTP, but he wants to play in the league so he needs to take them at their word. This waiver, it's just a waiver. It isn't standard but he should trust the league and take them at their word that it will only be used for injury liability purposes, not ANY future litigation. They haven't lied about anything. Wait, what's that? RG and the NFL stated they had several thousand pages of evidence in Bountygate that they never produced. Well, surely they would never lie about something more nefarious and insidious, would they? Wait, what? The purposely hid the affects of CTE and repeated concussions from former players. While agreeing to settle for $765 million (remember, a settlement is not an admission of guilt!) with retired players they were still withholding information about CTE from the former players. But, I, mean, the NFL, totally trustworthy. They would never lie about anything to protect their own interests. Even during or after settlements.
Tom freaking Brady didn't trust the NFL enough to hand over printed copies of text messages, pre-approved by his lawyers, but Colin Kaepernick is expected to comply and believe everything the NFL says...for a workout. I was critical of Tom (if I remember correctly) for refusing and destroying his cellphone (as was the appellant judge) but I remember a multitude of Saints fans applauding TB for not complying. Hooray! The NFL is corrupt. So is Goodell. Don't trust them Tom. Hooray! But, Colin Kaepernick...how dare he distrust the NFL. Booo! He doesn't want a job, he doesn't want to play. If he doesn't trust the league, why does he want to play? Booo! Use the search function and find any thread titling Spygate, Bountygate or NOLA No Call and you will see a glutton of Saints fans calling the NFL corrupt, untrustworthy, seedy, shady and all kinds of negative connotations but Colin Kaepernick, nah, he should bend the knee, trust the league, take them at their word, do whatever they want, to get a job, well a workout, he should trust them. If he doesn't trust them, why show up? Maybe, just maybe, because he wants to play?
One side continuously acts in bad faith. Continuously. We don't trust them. But balk when CK doesn't and acts accordingly, to protect himself. Why?