There was little doubt that Colin Kaepernick’s days on the San Francisco 49ers’ roster were coming to an end, sooner rather than later. New head coach Chip Kelly has all but handed the starting job to Blaine Gabbert already, with the team holding Kaepernick out of their first two preseason games because of “arm soreness.” But after making public his refusal to stand for the United States National Anthem, Colin ensured that he’ll not even get the opportunity to hold a clipboard for another team. Colin Kaepernick has always been an idiot and he’s about to be an idiot out of a job.
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Now you may think I’m about to go into a tirade about how Kaepernick should love America and the flag and hot dogs and apple pie and shooting faces into pumpkins with lever-action rifles, but I’m not. I legitimately don’t give a damn about what Colin Kaepernick thinks about anything. I can’t believe anybody outside of an NFL team does. This is the world we live in. The Twitter and Instagram world of “hot takes” and all day long Kaep has been the brunt of about 90 percent of my twitter feed. Most people aren’t pleased.
This isn’t the first time Colin Kaepernick has taken a stand against THE MAN. This is the same brave person who refused to take off his Beats by Dre headphones, even though he faced a fine since the NFL is aligned with another headphone company. Colin was warned that he would be fined if he wore the Beats headphones again, which he did in an act of unparalleled heroism. And he was fined. $10,000.
#49ers QB Colin Kaepernick still rocking Beats by Dre headphones after beating #KCChiefs pic.twitter.com/A5Hh4uVaWn
— Paul Gutierrez (@PGutierrezESPN) October 6, 2014
Was that enough to stop Kaepernick and his moral stand? Of course not. The very next week Colin was back at the podium wearing those same Beats headphones… with the logo taped over like a warrior.
The week he’d been fined over $11,000 for using a racial slur during a game. Kaep denied using the slur, even though the ref that flagged him heard it. Since there was no audio evidence, just this video, Colin was able to heroically reduce that fine down to around $5,000 because he is a champion of the oppressed.
The irony here is that Kaepernick may not have used a “racial” slur at all, but instead, if my lip reading is accurate, seems to deliver a homophobic slur like any defender of the downtrodden.
You may not know it to look at him, and you don’t, but Colin Kaepernick is evidently a real thinker. His decision to not stand during the anthem is an act of protest. Here, I’ll let this living symbol of courage speak for himself.
“I am not going to stand up and show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaep told the media after the game. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
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While his comments may resonate with some people, I can tell you who they won’t resonate with; NFL coaches, NFL general managers and NFL owners. Not even his laughable performances on the field have done this much damage to his future earning potential as his decision to perfect his bench work during the anthem.
Colin Kaepernick is not a good enough player to cause any trouble at all, let alone a national incident complete with a complicated dialogue on race. It’s not going to be worth the headache in signing him and the thousands of angry flag-wavers, part-time patriots and Trump voters inundating a team’s phone lines, email server and social media feeds.
Fan burns Kaepernick jersey https://t.co/GcZbpYXYXp
— MartyInNorCal (@martydewitt) August 27, 2016
No head coach wants to be asked about Kaepernick’s bench seat preference after every game. There’ll be a camera on him every Sunday during the anthem now for as long as he’s in the league, whether he steps out on the field or not. So you can go ahead and cut the lights as you go out the door, CK. That’s a wrap on your career.
I would say it’s been fun, but I’ve actually had to watch you play.
