Here’s a look….
No, the Eagles shouldn’t sign Colin Kaepernick. Not yet.
Carson Wentz is healthy. If that changes, as it changed each of the past four years, then yes, Kaepernick is Plan B, assuming Nate Sudfeld’s broken left wrist is fully healed. If Sudfeld is still hurt, then Kaepernick becomes Plan A.
The Eagles are built to win now. If All-Pro tackles Jason Peters and Lane Johnson are healthy, the Birds are, on paper, a superior team to the 2017 championship edition. That’s why, if Wentz gets hurt, it would be foolish to disqualify Kaepernick.
Worried about fan reaction? Please. Half the fans will love him, a quarter will hate him, the rest won’t care, which was the popularity graph for Donovan McNabb. If anyone gives up their season tickets, they’ll be snapped up in 30 seconds; the waiting list is generations long. Worried about a decline in television viewership? Worried that sponsors will bolt? Go ask Nike about that. America has spoken with its pocketbooks. Kap might have enemies, but he’s got a lot of friends, too…
image…hiptoro.com
Yeah I remember when all those Right Wing sites were telling us that K and his fellow kneelers were going to kill the NFL.
What a Laugh!
They don’t understand that there two things those good ol boys who make up a significant part of the “base” ain’t gonna give up,their beer and their football!
He gets picked up and plays for the season and Trump will bust a gut…
Video out of Kaepernick. throwing passes to Odell surfaces….
I think there’s now even a sculpture or statue of the black Olympic medal-winners raising their clenched fists during the National Anthem in 1968.
Pan Am Games Protesters Get Probation. Olympians Get a Warning.
By Jeré Longman, New York Times
Aug. 21, 2019
Two athletes who protested the national anthem at a recent competition were placed on 12 months’ probation. But stopping other competitors from making political stands at next year’s Tokyo Olympics won’t be easy.
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo will take place amid sagging credibility of the Olympic movement itself and ahead of a divisive American presidential election. The Games will occur during awakenings to gender equity and sexual abuse. They will happen during a rise of nationalism around the world. And they will come at a time when athletes seem to have more willingness and access than ever to express their thoughts on politics, social issues and human rights.
So when the top United States Olympic official on Tuesday sent letters to two American athletes who protested the national anthem at the recent Pan American Games in Peru, placing both on 12 months’ probation, she also included a warning to prospective Olympians about making political gestures at the Summer Games next year. But trying to silence athletes in Tokyo might be futile when some feel more emboldened than ever to speak out.
The letters sent this week, from the chief executive of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Sarah Hirshland, went to the hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who raised her fist during the national anthem, and the fencer Race Imboden, who knelt on the medal podium.
Such wrist slaps might become more consequential if repeated, Ms. Hirshland suggested in her letters, which seemed intended for a broader audience.
“It is also important for me to point out that, going forward, issuing a reprimand to other athletes in a similar instance is insufficient,” Ms. Hirshland wrote in the letters, which were first obtained and reported by The Associated Press.
But this is a far different environment from 1968, when the American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were sent home from the Summer Olympics in Mexico City after making a gloved-fisted protest against social inequality on the medal stand.
President Trump could respond with vitriol to any criticism of him during the Olympics, as he did in a Twitter spat with the American soccer star Megan Rapinoe during the recent Women’s World Cup, but “much of the country is going to be much more sympathetic” now than in 1968, said David Wallechinsky, the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
Today’s athletes can build support through social media and, in some cases, are buoyed by their coaches and companies like Nike. …
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/sports/olympics/pan-am-olympic-punishment.html
The leaders of the revolution seldom last thru it….