The One Simple Reason Why Colin Kaepernick Isn’t Playing Football that Everybody Missed

With all of the hot air that’s been blasted about former NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, I’m surprised that everybody seems to be missing the most obvious reason why no NFL team has signed him. If you’re lucky enough to not have any idea who this nimrod is that I’m referencing, I’ve written about him a few times previously. So why am I wasting more time on him? Because in this post we get the big reveal, and can finally put an end to this “controversy” and put this idiocy behind us once and for all.

The latest development in this story is that Spike Lee has been organizing some “Stand with Kaepernick” rallies to protest the NFL offices, as if somehow the league commissioner is supposed to force a team to hire a particular player. National Review’s Jim Geraghty raised a great point in one of his podcasts along the lines of “If the rally is for Kaep, shouldn’t everybody be sitting or kneeling for him instead?” And of course, in typical Leftist hysterics, they laid out a list of demands for the NFL:

1. That the NFL institute a policy to protect players’ rights to have freedom of speech, so they can kneel, raise a fist or express opinions on social issues, if they wish.

2. That the NFL establish a review board to, Green says, “examine issues of social injustice.” As Tamika Mallory, a social activist and co-organizer of the 2017 Women’s March, put it in her speech, “The NFL, just like the NYPD, cannot police itself. Any organization that is only being looked at from within is a failing organization. There must be a unit of people internally and externally that look at racial and cultural sensitivity issues within the NFL.”

3. And that the NFL develop some sort of program to “reinvest into the communities in which they serve, where there are high rates of unemployment, high rates of mass incarceration. To re-invest those funds into the community,” Green says.”

To respond to each of these demands:

1. That freedom exists – it’s called the 1st Amendment. More on this in a bit.

2. They expect the NFL to create jobs for otherwise unemployable parasites with worthless degrees in grievance studies.

3. “Re-invest” money into the kinds of organizations of what my buddy The Destroyer of Colons dubbed “The Nonprofit/NGO Industrial Complex”, which he defines as “Jobs programs for Lefties when there’s not a Democrat in office”

Good luck with all of that. And of course, the race hustlers in the NAACP are calling for a boycott of the NFL until some team decides to take on the headache that is Kaepernick. Personally, I would have loved to have gone to one of these protests with a camera and survey the protesters about who they think will win this year’s Super Bowl – the Cavaliers or the Cubs.

As if this isn’t irritating enough, the Smithsonian is planning on adding a Kaep exhibit in the African-American History museum for his work in bringing attention to the fine work that Black Lives Matter is doing. In other words, our tax dollars are being spent to glorify domestic terrorists that destroy predominantly black neighborhoods. But Conservatives are the racists.

Back on topic, NFL ratings were down last season. Depending on who you ask it was due to being an election year, or it was tied to the National Anthem protests. The reality is it’s probably a little bit of both. But it’s not just TV ratings that are hurting. The secondary market of sports bars is taking a hit as well.

And Kaepernick just isn’t good enough to be worth the headaches. With all of the arguing over Kaep, the issue is really a lot simpler than most of the arguments from either side. As former Eagle great running back LeSean “Shady” McCoy put it,

“You just got to look at all sides, like if I’m an owner, or the GM of a team, do I want to put him on my team? Is he good enough to be on the squad, to even deal with everything that’s going on? That’s something that I don’t really partake in,” Shady said.

That wasn’t all, the Pro Bowl running back went on to say he thinks a better player like Tom Brady or Odell Beckham wouldn’t even be dealing with the heat Kaep is getting.

“Take a guy like Michael Vick who went through all that he went through. He’s 10 times better than Kaepernick. So you’ll deal with that situation. You’ll deal with that attention, the media aspect of it, the good the bad attention to it compared to Kaepernick, he’s really not that good of a player.”

Exactly. Regarding public figures, a few weeks ago Mike Rowe responded to a critic for not offering a position on the Radical Left’s attempt at recreating a Reichstag Fire in Charlottesville:

What can I say? I work for half-a-dozen different companies, none of whom pay me to share my political opinions. I run a non-partisan foundation, I’m about to launch a new show on Facebook, and I’m very aware that celebrities pay a price for opening their big fat gobs. Gilbert Gottfried, Kathy Griffin, Colin Kaepernick, Milo Yiannopoulos … even that guy from Google who just got himself fired for mouthing off. There’s no getting around it – the first amendment does not guarantee the freedom to speak without consequences. And really, that’s fine by me.

So no – I’m not going to share my personal feelings about Charlottesville, President Trump, or the current effort to remove thousands of statues of long dead soldiers from the public square. Not just because it’s “bad for business,” but because it’s annoying. I can’t think of a single celebrity whose political opinion I value, and I’m not going to assume the country feels any differently about mine.”

To move toward my point and the title of this post, let’s look at two recent employment opportunities that were denied to Kaep. The Miami Dolphins recently lost their starting quarterback, Ryan Tannehill, for the season to an injury. Needing a new starter, the Dolphins signed… perennial underachiever Jay Cutler. As one might imagine, the Radical Left, particularly those in the sports media, freaked out. They cited (somewhat misleading) stats suggesting that Kaepernick was a better player, and that this was simply over Kaep’s political protests. It’s a fair argument, but Kaep would have been a particularly bad signing for Miami in particular.

At the end of the previous season, Kaepernick’s then employer the San Francisco 49ers came to town, a loss for San Francisco. An interesting wrinkle is that not too long before the game, Kaep wore to a press conference a t-shirt whose images included a picture of Fidel Castro. And as you probably know, Miami has a significant Cuban population and doesn’t share the Radical Left’s love for this particular murderous thug. Here is how Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, who won’t hesitate to drop some preachy left wing politics in his Monday Morning QB columns, bravely ignored the controversy:

loss for the 1-10 Niners on Sunday (31-24 at Miami), but Colin Kaepernick was terrific in defeat, amassing his first 400-total-yard game in three seasons. Chip Kelly had to watch this game and think, “Maybe this guy can win again, and maybe we’ll be a match.” Kaepernick threw for 296 yards, ran for 134, accounted for three touchdowns and generally looked like the kind of threat that made Ron Jaworski say three years ago he could be an all-timer. Kaepernick will need to be consistent in the last month, but suddenly his Niners future is a story instead of a fait accompli.

Nope, not a peep how the game ended with Kaep driving for the winning score and being tackled by Miami linebacker of Cuban descent, Kiko Alonso on the final play. The Miami Herald’s Armando Salguero was the better journalist on that day, giving a better account of why Kaep might not be the best hire to be the face of the franchise to the Miami fan base.

Now let’s look at a more recent prospective suitor in the Baltimore Ravens. Their starting quarterback, Joe Flacco, missed most of training campo with an injury, while backup QB Ryan Mallet had been less than impressive. The Ravens made it publicly known that they would consider Kaep, but ultimately declined. So how might Kaep be received by the Ravens’ fan base? For starters, he is a proponent of the Black Lives Matter movement, the organization that spurred the riots that destroyed some predominantly black neighborhoods downtown. From what little I’ve checked with Ravens Nation, this wasn’t a major factor. More interesting though, was how retired Ravens’ legendary Linebacker Ray Lewis stated that the team was giving strong consideration to Kaep until his BLM-activist girlfriend sent an obnoxious tweet mocking him. While I don’t automatically trust someone who once helped cover up a murder,  the facts are incontrovertible – Kaep’s girlfriend publicly mocked a beloved figure within the organization with which he was hoping to get a job.

And this is what finally brings us to my point. The reason Kaep is unemployed is so simple that it’s easily overlooked: The reason that Colin Kaepernick is not playing for an NFL team right now is because he doesn’t want to. Of course, if some NFL owner were to call and offer him a job he would gladly accept in a heartbeat. But that’s not important to him. What is important is that if he plays in the NFL it will be on his terms and nobody else’s. If not, he’ll happily play the martyr and darling for every left wing loon in the sports press. Kaep could have looked at the cold, hard reality that NFL team ownership is ultimately accountable to their fans, and that means winning. If you don’t give a team the best chance to win, you don’t get hired. Or if you can contribute you’d better not be more of a headache than what you’re worth. Condescending sports writers and race hustler don’t fill the seats or buy team merchandise – fans do.

If Colin Kaepernick truly wanted to be an NFL quarterback this season he would have laid the groundwork last season. He could have worked on his mechanics, practiced not taking off and running and instead reading through his progressions when his primary target wasn’t open. He could have not made a spectacle of himself to annoy a large chunk of his employers’ (and by that I mean NFL fans everywhere) customer base. Since the 2016 writing on the wall said he’d probably be looking for a new home next year, maybe not wearing a t-shirt glorifying a man who tortured some of the parents/grandparents in one potential new home would be a good idea. Maybe ask your girlfriend not to offend your potential new employer. And better still, tell all of these racial agitators to back off and not justify every naysayer who would see you as a distraction. Kaep made his choices, and now he is free to live with the consequences of his actions.

At the end of the day, is there anything more American than that?

Lets take a moment to remember the Unemployed on this Labor Day 😂😂😂 #ColinKaepernickSucks pic.twitter.com/fpffjxwzaJ

— Sam E. Rivera 🇺🇸 (@SamERivera) September 4, 2017

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