I love that the preamble to this is, "Step back, folks, this is a job for a white man..."
It wasn't there when I first looked also. Then I played the video, forgetting the sound was on and making my family look at me funny, and I could see the poster and date.
I remain blissfully in ignorance, refusing as I now do to click twitter links.
Used to be that sports was the last meritocracy in America. Last year in this situation I'd have thought Belichick might trade Garroppollo for a first and sign Kaepernick as a cheap backup. We know better now, though. I can't put up with this shit forever.
Belichick is too busy figuring out how to cheat.
I have no idea who that is, but he's really good at not pulling punches.
I also had to google Curt Flood to see what he was talking about there.
I do wonder what is going to happen with football. I see a fair few people on my Facebook talking about boycotting the NFL if they don't make the players stand for the anthem. As I already blocked all the really political people, these are people who have never put up a Trump post or anything. Presumably the NFL has some kind of cost/benefit memo floating around on this and they've realized that they need to not take a side so they're trying to make the issue go away by not hiring Kaepernick.
I don't even own a TV, so I wasn't aware that Kaepernick's boycott was so effective thus far (12% drop in viewers for the season opener).
That's very eloquent for an off-the-cuff speech.
Except that blacklisting Kaepernick is very visibly taking a side. Every black football fan in America knows what's going on.
The NFL boycott is one of the few where I'm actually not already not doing what participants are stopping doing.
Isn't Belicheck more likely to sign a Trump relative, if they weren't all already either blocking against the investigative rush or running from it?
Among the things I've learned from the protest, having the players come out for the national anthem is mostly recent hyper-"patriotic" bullshit:
It wasn't typical for NFL players to stand for the national anthem until 2009--before then, it was customary for players to stay in the locker room as the anthem played.* A 2015 congressional report revealed that the Department of Defense had paid $5.4 million to NFL teams between 2011 and 2014 to stage on-field patriotic ceremonies; the National Guard shelled out $6.7 million for similar displays between 2013 and 2015.
Well, baseball let in a bunch of Canadians. Left the market wide open.
Speaking of Facebook, white people, and football, somebody wants tip recall the Nebraska board of regents because they didn't fire the football coach for losing two in a row.
Relatedly, I went to a high school football game today. Our team lost.
22: Haven't you graduated from high school yet, teo?
Alaska is in a different timezone.
20 They've been reading up on Scottish football personnel practices.
23, 24: Always yesterday, my friends.
Seriously, though, Sharky's dad is the coach at the school she went to (several years ago), and today was their homecoming game.
In real world dipping the toes back in news I feel I can share consistent with my personna here, I had (bought) a drink with J/oey A/llen, the guitarist from W/arrant. Top life moment. Feel jealous, fools.
Also Max Kellerman is for real smart. Columbia grad. And wtf gaopened with the Canelo/GGG fight that I missed because see above.
So are you, like, back for real now, or what?
He keeps disappearing and reappearing anyway, so.
|| I've shared the occasional snippet from our county health department's air quality person. As we see in the WaPo, she's not just a clever writer, she's a goddam hero. A human embodiment of why we have government. |>