Goodell appeared on CNBC on Monday morning and stressed his belief that decisions to pass on Kaepernick are exclusively based on personnel.
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The 2017 NFL season has been full of quarterbacks going down and backups getting promoted to starting jobs out of necessity. The latest example of this came on Sunday afternoon, when Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz went down with an injury that turned out to be a torn ACL and backup Nick Foles became the team’s starter.
As starters getting injured has seemed to turn into a weekly occurrence, plenty have wondered why former Niners quarterback Colin Kaepernick hasn’t gotten a job somewhere. Some, like LeBron James, believe that the league has blackballed Kaepernick, who famously sat for the national anthem last season in an attempt to start a national discussion on racial inequality and police brutality.
To NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, nothing sinister is going on. All that Kaepernick’s continued unemployment means is that teams don’t think he fills a need. The commissioner, fresh off of getting a new deal from the league’s owners, told CNBC’s Squawk Box that he disagrees with the notion that Kaepernick is getting blackballed.
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Obviously this is Uproxx, so we can’t expect any sort of impartiality or even the most basic of journalistic standards. So it’s really not the place to ask why are the teams in Liberal cities, run by Liberal owners, staffed by vocally Liberal coaches also blackballing him?
You’re delusional.
Oh good. It’s standard internet troll 101. Call names then run away when you have no argument.
Because even teams located in “liberal” cities have sizable conservative portions of their fanbases (and football fans lean more conservative than average americans on this issue) and they’re afraid of alienating a portion of their fanbase. While a ton of fans of certain franchises would have loved for their teams to sign Kaep, those fans are much less likely to protest and stop going to games than the fans that would be pissed their team signed Kaep even if it makes them a better team.
How’s the Kool-aid taste?
Translation: NFL owners are blackballing Colin Kaepernick.
Oooooor he sucks.
