Colin Kaepernick Lashes Out at White Adoptive Parents – Accuses them of “Perpetuating Racism”
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Like most dual threat QBs, it took a couple seasons for injuries and defensive coordinators to catch up. Look at the 2022 seasons of Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray. Krappernick had krappy throwing mechanics and his inaccuracy made him a bad fit for NFL passing offenses..
In 2016,
So Krappy already got benched in 2015 and the beginning of 2016. His reps knew his earnings and marketability were on the downswing so they thought of a non-football way to make some money off him. It was later on in 2016 that he started doing the kneel down during the anthem. The stunt got him a bunch of money from Nike, and his reps got their portion of that endorsement money.
“At first this was perhaps a valid income, but it definitely soon lost its value is now a liability.”
Money already in the bank isn’t a liability. That they were able to get any money from Nike for a washed-up player was a great scam for them.
For reference, Shanahan’s 2016 Falcons offense was a passing attack that once had a 25 point lead in the Super Bowl. Veteran passing QB Matt Ryan won the 2016 NFL MVP.
In 2017 Krappy was out of the league. He cooked up the story that he was politically blackballed, because it helped the Nike campaign of “Stand for something even if it costs you everything.” The truth is that if he was a good enough player, his politics and stunts wouldn’t have mattered. In 2017 the kneel-down trend became widespread among NFL players and they weren’t blackballed for it. Because they could still play.
Even in 2023 Krappy whined about and sold out his adoptive parents in order to generate buzz for his graphic novel he’s trying to sell. He’s a grifter.
Good analysis. You said, "Money already in the bank isn’t a liability." You unwittingly stated an oxymoron. Idle money looses value even with the paltry interest rate of a bank due to inflation. If Kaepernick has a good financial manager then perhaps it favors what you said. However, the flow of Nike money is not there as it was initially. That's like being laid off at work. It wouldn't surprise me if there are political NGOs paying him a retainer for future use. Who knows... He received his Andy Warhol 15 minutes of fame. Now he's a has been like David Hogg.
His options were:
A. to wash out of the league quietly for no more money
or
B. to wash out of the league while doing race-card publicity stunts to get a woke pay day from endorsers
The woke pay day didn’t have to last forever for option B to be much more profitable for him than option A.
I used “in the bank” as a figure of speech for money received. I don’t know how Krappy invested his woke money. If you want to get ticky tack about financial accounting, liabilities are the opposite of assets, and money in the bank is an asset even if its interest accrual doesn’t keep pace with inflation. Money in a savings account might be an improperly invested asset, but it’s still an asset and not a liability.
I'm not getting "ticky tack" or legalistic with the definition for what is considered on the IRS tax sheet as an asset versus liability. You know what the real rate of inflation is versus the paltry interest rate of a savings account (even though I now realize you meant this as a figure of speech). In the end, we are basically saying the same thing. Kaepernick (crappy) is washed up football-wise and I think also woke social justice-wise.... because he's lashing out at his White mother and doing so means there must be some deep-seated self-hatred for him to speak out against it.