Unemployed Colin Kaepernick

[mandrill]

Oagre is on the wrong side of history again.

Pardon me, but "History" has meant that Black rights have been increasingly recognized and protected over the course of the last 40 years. Unless you are suggesting that this is about to change and Jim Crow is about to return, I think History is pretty clearly on my side.

 

[OnTheWayOut]

CK has just been announced GQ's "Citizen of the Year"!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOg8pcPX4AAr8HD.jpg

Wow do they have low standards. No wonder readership is down lol

 

[Keebler Elf]

Looks like he might get a job after all, Slurp.

So which team offered him a job???

 

[frankcastle]

Uh-oh, this doesnt look good when your stadium is half empty for a big rivalry.
Mind you both teams arent doing well in the standings, so that might be a partial reason:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...ame-half-empty-soldier-field-aint-good-folks/

Aaron Rogers is out for the season and the Bears aren't very good either. So why pay a hefty fee to sit in the cold Chicago air to watch back ups play?

 

[frankcastle]

Didn't Cutler come out of retirement and a sports broadcasting job to play for the Dolphins? So they would rather pick a guy past his prime then a guy in his prime?

 

[frankcastle]

https://ca.yahoo.com/sports/news/de...nce-increases-sunday-nfl-games-234459264.html

However, the numbers don’t indicate that any boycotts, if indeed they happened, had a meaningful numerical effect. In fact, total attendance at the eight early games on Sunday, as reported by the NFL, was up about 1 percent over season averages. Here’s the breakdown, with averages prior to Sunday’s games.
• Buffalo: Average 68,944; Sunday: 67,501
• Chicago: Average 61,779; Sunday: 61,285 • Jacksonville: Average 59,553; Sunday: 67,164 • Detroit: Average 63,367; Sunday: 64,646 • Indy: Average 63,801; Sunday: 66,146 • Tennessee: Average 67,356; Sunday: 67,432 • Tampa: Average 60,894; Sunday: 57,911 • Washington: Average: 77,451; Sunday: 74,476

 

[OnTheWayOut]

Didn't Cutler come out of retirement and a sports broadcasting job to play for the Dolphins? So they would rather pick a guy past his prime then a guy in his prime?

Wait. CK's QBR has dropped every year he played, it was highest his first year. Seems to me HIS prime was his fluke first year. 2015 and 2016 he was in the 40s. Hardly prime years. His last 3 years the Niners finished last in their division.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14001/colin-kaepernick

 

[OnTheWayOut]

https://ca.yahoo.com/sports/news/de...nce-increases-sunday-nfl-games-234459264.html

However, the numbers don’t indicate that any boycotts, if indeed they happened, had a meaningful numerical effect. In fact, total attendance at the eight early games on Sunday, as reported by the NFL, was up about 1 percent over season averages. Here’s the breakdown, with averages prior to Sunday’s games.
• Buffalo: Average 68,944; Sunday: 67,501
• Chicago: Average 61,779; Sunday: 61,285 • Jacksonville: Average 59,553; Sunday: 67,164 • Detroit: Average 63,367; Sunday: 64,646 • Indy: Average 63,801; Sunday: 66,146 • Tennessee: Average 67,356; Sunday: 67,432 • Tampa: Average 60,894; Sunday: 57,911 • Washington: Average: 77,451; Sunday: 74,476

Week 1 total 1,044,412. This week with one game to go tonight 865,617. Carolina average this year 74,000. 939,000 IF Panthers hit their average. Looks like about a 10% decrease.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2017/attendance.htm

 

[OnTheWayOut]

CK has just been announced GQ's "Citizen of the Year"!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOg8pcPX4AAr8HD.jpg

JJ Watt raised over 37 million for Houston Flood Relief while Colin Kaepernick wore Socks Depicting Police as Pigs and a Fidel Castro shirt in Miami.

 

[Smallcock]

CK has just been announced GQ's "Citizen of the Year"!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOg8pcPX4AAr8HD.jpg

Is GQ still relevant? This is not going to help their business. It's the colloquial equivalent of going 'full retard'. How are they different from the other print dinosaurs.

 

[Smallcock]

Pardon me, but "History" has meant that Black rights have been increasingly recognized and protected over the course of the last 40 years. Unless you are suggesting that this is about to change and Jim Crow is about to return, I think History is pretty clearly on my side.

You were one of these meatheads, weren't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUEWcH-6x4g

lol

 

[Smallcock]

The GQ boycott has begun: https://www.indystar.com/story/news...aepernick-being-named-citizen-year/858664001/

 

[Ironhead]

Someone was listening to you it seems as GQ have now retracted and replaced the would be cover.

I prefer Watt. Awesome player.

 

[OnTheWayOut]

Someone was listening to you it seems as GQ have now retracted and replaced the would be cover.

LOL, awesome cover!

 

[frankcastle]

Wait. CK's QBR has dropped every year he played, it was highest his first year. Seems to me HIS prime was his fluke first year. 2015 and 2016 he was in the 40s. Hardly prime years. His last 3 years the Niners finished last in their division.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14001/colin-kaepernick

Even in his last year of play he was middle of the pack of starters for qbr..... yet they all have jobs.

 

[frankcastle]

Week 1 total 1,044,412. This week with one game to go tonight 865,617. Carolina average this year 74,000. 939,000 IF Panthers hit their average. Looks like about a 10% decrease.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2017/attendance.htm

Without more stats you don't know if a 10% fluctuation is normal or not. Maybe colder weather in the northern states affects attendance. Could be lots of factors. Many point to a decline that started a few years ago BEFORE all the kneeling.

My point was that there was concerns there was going to be a dip for veterans day and there wasn't

 

[frankcastle]

JJ Watt raised over 37 million for Houston Flood Relief while Colin Kaepernick wore Socks Depicting Police as Pigs and a Fidel Castro shirt in Miami.

That's hyperbole.... you are choosing the socks and shirts over the message. Is that worth more than 37 million? That's up to voters to decide but all JJ did was start a webpage his celebrity plus people's generosity did the work. Those people would have donated to charity regardless.

 

[Keebler Elf]

Probably a bad move (long term) putting him on the cover. In the short term it will bring in a lot more consumers, most of whom align with CK and will want to show support and keep it as a memento. On the other side, many existing customers won't buy it but more importantly may choose to cancel their subscription. So it becomes a question of will you have more bandwagon jumpers getting on or off? Since on means taking an active step to pay more going forward, whereas off means saving money, I suspect more will leave than join. Also, many who buy will just buy the one issue vs many who will cancel their entire subscription.

So short term win in terms of publicity (who knew GQ was still publishing hard copy??) but long term loss in terms of subscribers.

 

[frankcastle]

The ratings issue has hit red-alert status for the NFL, and there are plenty of potential causes: cord-cutting, terrible games and protesting fans rank high on the list. But before opponents of the NFL begin celebrating too much, there are other data points:
• Sunday’s Green Bay Packers-Chicago Bears game averaged a 22.4 rating in Chicago and a monstrous 39.5 rating in Milwaukee, strong numbers for a couple of non-playoff-bound teams.
• Seattle’s ratings have remained remarkably consistent since the 2013 season, with Thursday night’s game against Arizona averaging a 39.3 and a prior game against Washington averaging a 39.9 rating.
• Ratings on Sunday pregame shows are decidedly mixed. Fox’s shows are up as much as 5 percent, and NFL Network’s pregame show is up 17 percent.**On the other hand, NBC’s pregame shows are down as much as 7.2 percent, and ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” is down 14.8 percent from 2016 and 25.4 percent from 2015.
Plummeting ratings have raised concerns across NFL front offices and league headquarters, with good reason. Still, the NFL remains the top draw on television by a long shot, and the league’s declines are in line with the decline in ratings across all of TV. So while the declines are an indisputable fact, it’s not entirely clear whether they’re due to the NFL’s own actions—permitting protests, scheduling terrible teams in prime slots—or forces beyond the league’s control. There’s plenty of data for all sides in this story to spin a narrative however they wish.
https://ca.yahoo.com/sports/news/pa...worst-mnf-ratings-espn-history-201237157.html

 

[mandrill]

LOL, awesome cover!

Slurp, that's a fake cover. It's actually kind of sad that someone hated CK so much that they made a "revenge" fake about him.

Here is the actual coverage of CK in GQ...

https://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-will-not-be-silenced

https://media.gq.com/photos/5a01ffa...pernick-Man-of-the-Year-1217-GQ-FECK02-01.jpg


He's been vilified by millions and locked out of the NFL—all because he took a knee to protest police brutality. But Colin Kaepernick's determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson—athletes who risked everything to make a difference.

In 2013, Colin Kaepernick was on the cover of this magazine because he was one of the best football players in the world. In 2017, Colin Kaepernick is on GQ's cover once again—but this time it is because he isn't playing football. And it's not because he's hurt, or because he's broken any rules, or because he's not good enough. Approximately 90 men are currently employed as quarterbacks in the NFL, as either starters or reserves, and Colin Kaepernick is better—indisputably, undeniably, flat-out better—than at least 70 of them. He is still, to this day, one of the most gifted quarterbacks on earth. And yet he has been locked out of the game he loves—blackballed—because of one simple gesture: He knelt during the playing of our national anthem. And he did it for a clear reason, one that has been lost in the yearlong storm that followed. He did it to protest systemic oppression and, more specifically, as he said repeatedly at the time, police brutality toward black people.