There are 32 teams in the NFL. Yes, Cleveland and Detroit do still count, even if they are the only 2 teams to go perfect.

Ray Rice was a Running Back, not a Linebacker. The Linebacker was Ray Lewis.

And again, I asked you if you have the ability and right to go into where you work and conduct a personal protest.

And again, I asked you if you have the ability and right to go into where you work and conduct a personal protest.

And again, I asked you if you have the ability and right to go into where you work and conduct a personal protest... do you?. Because I don't and I do not think anyone on this site does as well.

The " game" is their place of employment.. is it not? That is where they work. They don't own the stadium,so they don't have a right to use it as their personal soap box.

And they do not have a right to use what is not theirs without the consent of the people who own it, which for the most part is the team owners.

So again, every person has the right to protest.. nobody is denying that.. nobody. Protest all you want. on your own time and dime.

And nobody has right to force you to watch their protest when they do not want to.

I don't know about you, but if I was having a Bar B Que with a bunch of people.. just relaxing and having a good time and one decided to whip out a banner about saving the whales.. I would say to him:

A) who the hell do you think you are disrupting my Bar B Que
B) get out of my yard
C) do it in your own yard.

no work I have ever had was able to mandate that I stand for a show of patriotism before my day starts ...

why should anyone have the right to 'force you' to do that? what has that to do with playing sports or any other job? Its a commercial that employees are forced to participate in. it doesnt truly belong as a mandatory activity. if fans want to do it, let them. if players want to, let them. But it should NEVER be mandatory. Patriotism is not truly patriotism when it becomes mandated how one must show it.

Yet you were a military wife for a number of years. Tell me did you or your husband take a knee or protest then?

I gave a satisfactory answer to this question. It's a complicated issue with legal opinions on both sides.

what job, besides manual labor, do you not have the right to sit quietly, regardless of the reason?

lol...yea, he changed the world....that's why he's jobless right now...

my husband was
A) in the military
B) paid by the military

Athletes and other employees are not.

the day the military signs the check for athletes, I will feel differently.
If they signed it for me, I would too.
although I still feel forced shows of patriotism are counter intuitive and missing the point.

but,it was for a cause that HE truly believes is worth it,because HE isn't small minded,and one dimensional,like SOME people are,who cant see past their own small world that they have imprisoned themselves in!

[PLUS,he doesn't NEED a job to survive,since he was paid over $12 MILLION DOLLARS,JUST in 2016,not to mention over $50 MILLION DOLLARS MORE that HE WAS PAID off of the contract he signed in 2014,and has GIVEN AWAY MILLIONS of dollars out of his own pocket to charity,so..do you REALLY think that HE is the 'jobless loser' you are trying to pretend that he is??]
[I wish I was a 'jobless loser' like him!!!]

but,it was for a cause that HE truly believes is worth it,because HE isn't small minded,and one dimensional,like SOME people are,who cant see past their own small world that they have imprisoned themselves in!

[PLUS,he doesn't NEED a job to survive,since he was paid over $12 MILLION DOLLARS,JUST in 2016,not to mention over $50 MILLION DOLLARS MORE that HE WAS PAID off of the contract he signed in 2014,and has GIVEN AWAY MILLIONS of dollars out of his own pocket to charity,so..do you REALLY think that HE is the 'jobless loser' you are trying to pretend that he is??]
[I wish I was a 'jobless loser' like him!!!]

Colin Kaepernick recently bought a brand new Lamborghini luxury car for $450,000

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yes, yes, disrespect the country that allowed for you to have the opportunities you do.

the voice of the downtrodden.... the hero of the less fortunate..... Lol.

I never said "loser", that was you... Whatever, he was a third rate QB, at best...I never disliked the guy, but there's a time and place for everything.... evidently, that wasn't the time or place....

ummm...you should check your data...in 2016, according to the site you posted, Collin was dead last of all starting qb's...there's only 29 teams in the NFL....

What I find tricky and confusing about the issue of collusion, is the fact that the NFL is a private club, not a publicly held company, and not a government operation. The rules and laws regulating what private clubs can do, are different from the ones for companies and for government functions.

It's obvious to me, that the NFL owners "collude" with each other almost constantly, in one way and another. They get together as a group, and set up the rules for how the game is played, what players can do on the field, they even set standards of personal behavior for the players (though not for each other, amusingly enough).

They are said to be discussing, and may have already decided to make it a formal rule, that everyone has to pretend to be happy to stand and honor the singing of the National Anthem before every game. I personally disapprove of that, because I think it is an insult to the anthem and to patriotism, to turn it into a showmanship routine like that.

Personally, I don't think there is any indication that his being "black" has anything to do with his being ignored by almost every team, and not being offered a starting job with any of them. And last I heard, he and his lawyers are not making such a claim.

I'll be interested in the out come of the trial.

The NFL has a long history of playing legal games with fans, players, and with it's own claimed status as part of an entertainment industry.

Holding players to a certain standard when it comes to just-for-show patriotism is just one of the squirrely things about them.

Well,WHO decided what the 'proper' 'time and place' was for him to make a stand for what he believed in???


seems like the ONLY person who can make that decision for Colin Kaepernick IS Colin Kaepernick,since HE is the one who made it,and was willing to sacrifice his career for it,because HE believed it was the right thing to do!

SOME people might not agree with him,but it is not THEIR call to make,since it was HIS career!