ESPN : Kaepernick grievance nets under $10M

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  1. The Waterboy

    The Waterboy Well-Known Member

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    And so, no evidence of collusion
     
  2. Biggs

    Biggs Well-Known Member

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    No public evidence of collusion.
     
  3. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Ha, I meant to say oppressing not suppressing, but grammatically it still worked. I'm just hungry and tired. Anyway, some comic relief that I drag out whenever possible. Mojo Jojo is being oppressed.

     
  4. The Waterboy

    The Waterboy Well-Known Member

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    Which means no evidence that anyone here can point to and say, "there is the evidence".
     
  5. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    He’s a social justice warrior that everyone in America should admire.

    Like Ali.

    Btw, you forgot the Che Guevara t-shirt.

    Yup.

    No fraudulence at all.
     
  6. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    Not here to cut things for you, that’s the pizza thread.
     
  7. 101GangGreen101

    101GangGreen101 2018 Thread of the Year Award Winner

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    But it wasnt detrimental as evident by the ratings. Instead the NFL rode with their opinion that kneeling was harmful to the veterans which ended up be incorrect.

    So was Kaep really a product of bad ratings? Or a major loss of income? Dont think so. There have been numerous articles that stated kneeling did not have a major impact on ratings.
     
  8. Ralebird

    Ralebird Well-Known Member

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    "So, you got nothin'?"

    Everybody has opinions; the best opinions are supported.
     
  9. Biggs

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    Ali was absolutely reviled by Conservatives in America from 1967 to 1971 when he began his redemption. Conservatives today would have lined up to spit on him when he threw his Olympic Gold medal into the river and later refused induction into the army. The problem is you are viewing Kaep in the same lens that Ali was viewed in when he refused induction, not after he started his redemption.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/dail...is-vietnam-war-resistance-in-the-age-of-trump

    Ali was hardly greeted by overwhelming praise. He was denounced by some of the most revered sportswriters and editorialists of the time. An editorial in Sports Illustrated said, “Without his gloves on, Ali is just another demagogue and an apologist for his so-called religion, and his views on Vietnam don’t deserve rebuttal.” David Susskind, a popular television host, called him “a disgrace to his country,” who “will inevitably go to prison, as he should,” and “a simplistic fool and a pawn.” Tragically, even Jackie Robinson, who had endured so much for the simple right to play baseball for the Dodgers, condemned Ali. “He’s hurting, I think, the morale of a lot of young Negro soldiers over in Vietnam,” Robinson said. “And the tragedy to me is, Cassius has made millions of dollars off of the American public, and now he’s not willing to show his appreciation to a country that’s giving him, in my view, a fantastic opportunity.”
     
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  10. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    Dude I was alive for Ali, do you think you’re educating me again?

    Stop. Kaep is no Ali. Irrespective of how Ali may have been reviled.

    You’re embarrassing yourself.
     
  11. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    Asked and answered.

    Most of the opinions expressed here are nothing more than conjecture at best.

    You want to believe that conjecture as evidence of some sort of support?

    I’m happy for you.
     
  12. Ralebird

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    Nothin'!

    I suppose there's a chance I missed it, but you won't point out your explanation or even give a post number. Have it your way.

    I'll read that as you are simply guessing Kaepernick lacks sincerity.
     
  13. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    Gotta say Rale, the “you got nothing” taunt has to be one of the most crippling ones on the internet. It is seriously making me sad. Broken.
     
  14. Ralebird

    Ralebird Well-Known Member

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    You'll get over it.
     
  15. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    In other news, Karl Marx's burial place/gravestone has been vandalized in Highgate Cemetery in London twice this month. How's that Utopia thing workin' out? Lenin and Stalin, woooooo!!! Chairman Mao and his Little Red Book, wooooooo!!! Millions upon millions murdered by all three of them, wooooo!!! 1984 by Orwell, woooooo!!! The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, wooooo!!!! Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, wooooo!!!! Those last three are actually a reflection of the abuses and failures of the other ones.

    To be clear, EVERY gov't is a lying, spying killing machine including the U.S. gov't, and Joseph McCarthy, well . . . The point that I'm trying to make is that the U.S. has so much past bad acne the pock mark scars can never be erased even with dermabrasion. That being said, Communism on a grand scale does NOT work. It doesn't. It invariably turns into a Dictatorship but nowadays there's lip-service being paid to voting in heavily Islamic countries, blah blah blah, haha. Women can drive in Saudi Arabia now! Watch how many of them get raped on the side of the road.

    Our OWN voting system is a sham and completely corrupt, but Socialism vs. Capitalism yet Socialism is somehow more attractive because why . . . ? If you walked into a hospital ER bleeding to death with no insurance you're getting treated and you're not paying for it I am so what's the problem? Oy, ask me how doctors and hospitals bill, BEWARE. Ask me.

    OK, so back to Socialism, I want to know why people don't put up signs for free pickings on their TVs, new appliances, family heirlooms and cash to distribute their wealth on their own front lawn just because. Their own personal wealth. Anyone? No takers. Well, that was fun, Colin Kaepernick.

    By the way, Bernie Sanders is running again. Fuck you, Hillary.
     
  16. Biggs

    Biggs Well-Known Member

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    Yea, Screw Medicare, SS and bring back the 2nd amendment and get rid of the federal military and their god forsaken interstate highway system. Socialist pigs. And while were at it the VA, public education, WTF socialist bastards. Lets privatize everything and not pay any taxes. You want an Army beg for it with a tin cup.

    I love regulated capitalism with great public institutions and Universal Health care and education.
    That's not the choice. The choice is Kleptocracy vs. what ever the fuck the Democrats are talking about.

    I get the hate for Hillary but Al Capone Jr?
     
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  17. JetBlue

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    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26323226/report-kaepernick-grievance-nets-10m

     
  18. The Waterboy

    The Waterboy Well-Known Member

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    Maybe @Brook! can change the thread title to "Kaep and Reid may have gotten a total of less than $10M before attorneys fees, is that still evidence of collusion?"
     
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  20. JetBlue

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    Kaep and Reid sat in a room with the NFL owners and settled for what they had in their wallets.
     
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