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[Blind Gossip] This athlete got a lot of attention for not standing up. With his fat salary and the encouragement of his girlfriend, he felt empowered to express his opinion.

Now that he’s out of a job, though, he’s suddenly softened his position on a topic to which he was extremely committed. Did this mean his morality has shifted?

Someone in the executive offices of a professional sports team provided us with some insight:

Don’t believe anything you read about why he’s doing this. He is lying lying lying!!! If anything, he has become MORE angry and MORE militant in his beliefs over the past year. That girlfriend of his has a lot to do with it. She really gets him riled up.

The truth is he’s been told that the only way he’s going to get hired is to publicly shut it. If he wants a job and money and a platform for his cause, he needs to STFU for a while. So he’s laying low and doing whatever he has to do to get himself an offer.

There are a bunch of teams that won’t even look at him, so I don’t know if his little scam is going to work. Somebody might pick him up. Just know that he hasn’t changed his thinking. He is just LYING about it to get a job!

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Athlete:

[Optional] Given his behavior over the past year, would you want him to join your team?

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  1. Kapernick…wouldn’t hire him. Its a job and a team. There’s a whole group of people to consider. Its not your place to make your views associated with the organization.

    • Yeah, the organization that has been profiting off black men for decades. Good for kapernick using his status to protest the continued mistreatment of black people in this country.

    • Getting paid millions of dollars to play a sport, an activity which in no way contributes to the health and welfare of the world, is “mistreatment” of black men? Nobody is putting a gun to anyone’s head and forcing them to play pro ball for seven to eight figures. Sign me up for said mistreatment. In the meantime, how would you fix it? By limiting the players to white men?

    • farfel, you’re trolling other’s comments with your political views. The NFL profits off the best Athletes and compensates them accordingly. If you didn’t view enough blacks playing, you’d say the NFL is racist. Because the majority of NFL players are black, you say the NFL profits off black men. I couldn’t disagree with your derogatory comments more.

  4. Colin K needs a team and quick! He’s faking it till he makes it Not fooling anyone

  5. Colin Kaepernick.

    He’s playing it long term which is the way to go. I think he’s handling it maturely. I also think it’s silly he lost his job unless it was in his contract that he’s supposed to stand during the national anthem.

    • He lost his job because he is not all he was cracked up to be as a ball player.

    • Agreed. I think pretty much everyone here would do the same – haven’t we all had to modify our behaviour in some way to keep a job? You speak up when you can, that’s all we can ask of him.

    • Not to mention he pissed off enough football fans that they boycotted the 49ers. Because of his stupid personal stance, he lost the organization and his team $$.

    • @queenmarie88, you’re right! I see now I wasn’t fully informed. My bad! I see now it was a good business decision made by the team because of his play and how he handled his injury. Thanks for your reply to my comment.

  7. Athlete:

    Colin Kapernick

    Given his behavior over the last year, would you want him to join your team?

    Hell, NO! My team doesn’t need such a whinny brat! They have the GOAT as QB with a Great QB in the wings!

  8. Colin Kapernick. He hasn’t done anything wrong, so, why wouldn’t I want him on my team if he can throw a touchdown pass?

    • Political view and protests aside – he cant read a defense, throw a touch pass or convert in the red zone. Besides scrambling he honestly is not very good.

  9. colin kaepernick. There’s nothing wrong with expressing a view. But actions have consequences and there’s nothing wrong with people being disgusted by your display.

    • It’s sad that more people were probably disgusted by his not standing for the stupid anthem and not disgusted by the way black men are treated in this country

  12. Of course it’s Colin K. I wouldn’t want him to join my team not because of his political posturing (although I don’t like it) but because he sucks as a QB!

  15. Colin Kaepernick….I wouldn’t hire him. $$$ talks and what was the point if you were going to back down.

  19. Athlete: Colin Kaepernick

    Optional: No, he seems like an attention seeker and unprofessional. People should be able to speak up about whatever they want, but not at “work” aka the football field. If I was his teammate, I’d worry that he’s too concerned with his protest and all the negative attention than winning the game.

  24. Kaepernick and his girl friend Nessa Diab. I hope she is worth it, because at his talent level (less than average NFL QB) he will lose millions. A high risk back up or fill-in QB is not worth the hassle/ bad p.r.