(04-22-2017 04:58 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(04-22-2017 11:29 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 11:03 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 10:25 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 10:04 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  He was up there. Made conservatives collectively soil their britches. In a day when your influence is based on the irrational, cartoony hate people have for you he scores very high.

"Soil their britches"?

We just did what we said we would do......we just stopped watching the NFL.

The Kaepernick thread was more than people just not watching the NFL.

Cap is chump. Wealthy athletes pretending to be down for the cause, while living in exclusive hoods, does not resonate. Is his Mulatto A s s out there adopting black kids like his white parents did? Is he even a Big Brother? I have a lot more respect for cops and firemen who live in the hood and mentor young kids.

Do you know anything about him or are you just assuming? He's put money and time up.

He's been working in Baltimore, New Orleans, LA, Somalia. Gave money and time to all these causes.

Look I have no problem with people not liking the guy, but I want them to realize why they don't like him and where that sits amongst other things. He has been an outspoken Christian in his career, he has been a Super Bowl QB, charitable, etc. He realized that sitting down for the anthem was offensive and started kneeling at the sideline with those who were standing.

I understand not liking athletes for various reasons. I'm not a fan of Blake Griffin because he never gets caught doing sly things on the court. I'm not a fan of Matt Ryan because he's a choker. These are petty reasons, but they are just as petty as your reason for disliking Kap.

The fact that he, and by extension you, are pointing these things out tells me he's not the least bit serious in trying to help anyone. Unless that someone's name is Colin Kaepernick. I won't even point out the one big thing he refused to do, that you seem to be okay with.

(04-22-2017 05:05 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(04-22-2017 04:58 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(04-22-2017 11:29 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 11:03 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 10:25 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  "Soil their britches"?

We just did what we said we would do......we just stopped watching the NFL.

The Kaepernick thread was more than people just not watching the NFL.

Cap is chump. Wealthy athletes pretending to be down for the cause, while living in exclusive hoods, does not resonate. Is his Mulatto A s s out there adopting black kids like his white parents did? Is he even a Big Brother? I have a lot more respect for cops and firemen who live in the hood and mentor young kids.

Do you know anything about him or are you just assuming? He's put money and time up.

He's been working in Baltimore, New Orleans, LA, Somalia. Gave money and time to all these causes.

Look I have no problem with people not liking the guy, but I want them to realize why they don't like him and where that sits amongst other things. He has been an outspoken Christian in his career, he has been a Super Bowl QB, charitable, etc. He realized that sitting down for the anthem was offensive and started kneeling at the sideline with those who were standing.

I understand not liking athletes for various reasons. I'm not a fan of Blake Griffin because he never gets caught doing sly things on the court. I'm not a fan of Matt Ryan because he's a choker. These are petty reasons, but they are just as petty as your reason for disliking Kap.

The fact that he, and by extension you, are pointing these things out tells me he's not the least bit serious in trying to help anyone. Unless that someone's name is Colin Kaepernick. I won't even point out the one big thing he refused to do, that you seem to be okay with.

I don't understand how you came up with your first conclusion.

As for the second, is it really that big? It was almost never noticed in the first place. People have been sitting, talking on the phone, drinking, and not caring about the national anthem being played for years and they have absolutely zero reason for doing so. We look at them, see it as annoying and move on.

We pick and choose what we tolerate and one small thing is terminal.

Anyone who believes Kapernick's sitting during the national anthem had anything to do with anything other than being butthurt that he lost his starting job, well, then, you got played by Colin Kapernick.

(04-22-2017 05:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Anyone who believes Kapernick's sitting during the national anthem had anything to do with anything other than being butthurt that he lost his starting job, well, then, you got played by Colin Kapernick.

To me, that's just as valid as saying that all Trump voters are racist. Based off of nothing but a hunch.

We can't fathom someone actually having a reason for believing something different from us.

TIME and NEWSWEEK may do well in the Dentist's office demographic. Nut beyond that, they are irrelevant. CNN rocks in Atlanta airport, but that does not mean the fake news network is relevant elsewhere.

Snowflakes are triggered. #winning

100 People that people throws rotten tomatoes at.

Cap should move and give his citizenship to someone else.

What exactly did he influence? People were talking about BLM before his "protests." It's not like he brought anything new to the discussion or made a salient point about anything.

I couldn't care less about the NFL before or after him, but to act like his kneeling actually influenced anything or started a new conversation about race is false.

I agree. This seems to be a ploy to sell magazines.