Colin Kaepernick reveals he's desperate
to return to NFL six years after former
49ers quarterback became first athlete
to take the knee during national anthem
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Natasha Anderson
Original Article
Posted By: zephyrgirl,
4/18/2022 11:07:18 AM
Free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick reveals he's desperate to return to the NFL nearly six years after he became the first athlete to take a knee during the national anthem. Kaepernick, speaking exclusively with I Am Athlete, said he is 'absolutely' and 'without question' ready to make his league comeback after having not thrown a pass in the pros since January 1, 2017. 'That's five years of training behind the scenes to make sure I'm ready at the highest level,' Kaepernick said during a candid interview following a training session with former NFL wide receivers Chad Johnson and Brandon Marshall.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
coldoc 4/18/2022 11:15:17 AM (No. 1131705)
best chance?-learn to code.
92 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
downnout 4/18/2022 11:16:11 AM (No. 1131708)
Actions have consequences. Your actions have determined your current state. It’s time to move on.
79 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 4/18/2022 11:18:06 AM (No. 1131712)
More show boating. He’s had chances but one time he wanted to change the venue and was equally uncooperative the second time. No one wants a prima donna, especially an untalented one.
54 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
genius 4/18/2022 11:19:03 AM (No. 1131713)
I don't care what happens. I quit watching the NFL on the first knee and will never watch it again.
83 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 4/18/2022 11:19:12 AM (No. 1131714)
Maybe he should start with the USFL.
29 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/18/2022 11:20:05 AM (No. 1131716)
CK is no Tom Brady. He had no talent six years ago and even less today. Maybe Nike can design CK Signature knee pads and pay you some cash for that.
59 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/18/2022 11:23:41 AM (No. 1131720)
No. Never. His radical black girlfriend Nessa Diab never misses a chance to taunt the NFL. He was not that good when he left San Francisco. Already fading on the field. And wasn’t Mark Geragos, his lawyer, going to get him a contract “in the next two weeks” a few years ago?
Deadsville.
52 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/18/2022 11:27:23 AM (No. 1131726)
Try selling your hair on eBay...
41 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/18/2022 11:28:50 AM (No. 1131727)
He wasn't that great a quarterback.
Has he kept up with his training? Doubtful.
Colin is just looking for preferential treatment, and an affirmative action hire.
Problem is Colin's a money loser so nobody will hire him.
Colin should get in contact with Stacey Abrams. She knows how to get money for nothing. She probably could line up a do-nothing job for him too.
47 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 4/18/2022 11:31:16 AM (No. 1131730)
Ha
21 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/18/2022 11:31:26 AM (No. 1131731)
Quack, quack, quack.
19 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Borderboy 4/18/2022 11:31:53 AM (No. 1131732)
FCK...
29 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 4/18/2022 11:33:17 AM (No. 1131735)
No team owner with any sense of worth would be willing to take on all of the baggage that would come with him. He’s just not that good.
35 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 4/18/2022 11:35:54 AM (No. 1131736)
he wants starter money with backup skills.
17 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
thefield 4/18/2022 11:52:17 AM (No. 1131747)
If my short time memory serves me a little , I thought he was offered two back up contracts and he declined. Like the song says it is so hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way.
24 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
daisey 4/18/2022 11:56:20 AM (No. 1131748)
He has no other skills to support himself in the lifestyle he’s learned to love. No one forced him to take a knee. It was his choice, and now he doesn’t like the consequences he brought on to himself. I don’t feel sorry for him. I’m not rooting for him. I guess I just don’t care about CK.
27 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/18/2022 11:58:15 AM (No. 1131749)
I thought the NFL were slave masters and the Black players the overpaid slaves. Has Kapernick decided that he would rather be an overpaid slave to the NFL than a "free man"?
34 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/18/2022 11:58:32 AM (No. 1131750)
Kaepernick is sad that no slave owner will enslave him no matter how many times he tries out to be a slave.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
vrb8m 4/18/2022 12:14:23 PM (No. 1131758)
Keep walking until your hair floats, loser.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 4/18/2022 12:14:44 PM (No. 1131760)
How many top athletes can still play their sport after six years of aging and not playing? Essentially none.
And Knee-boy was never a top athlete, always 'not quite good enough', and I can pretty well guarantee that he hasn't gotten better with age and layoffs.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 4/18/2022 12:22:35 PM (No. 1131767)
Colon who?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/18/2022 12:30:13 PM (No. 1131774)
Your NFL career is over. That was your choice.
31 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/18/2022 12:50:01 PM (No. 1131782)
For the last 3 years my car has sported a bumper sticker which says, “Stand Up For Your Country” along with an American flag. It’s a direct shot at Kaepernik.
He needs to go play football in China.
23 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/18/2022 12:58:46 PM (No. 1131783)
He would be a cancer and create team dissension for any locker room
He walked away from a contract worth over $100 million dollars and cost Nike tens on millions when they scrapped shoes that helped Rush Limbaugh’s $5 million dollar “Stand up for Betsy Ross” campaign in the last fundraising effort before he passed.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/18/2022 1:02:23 PM (No. 1131789)
Plausible. Somebody needs to pour and distribute the Gatorade.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
farmwife 4/18/2022 1:04:08 PM (No. 1131790)
The knee thing was never about social justice, it was always about getting attention to keep him from getting cut from the team. He's run that string as far as it will go.
14 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
john56 4/18/2022 1:10:48 PM (No. 1131800)
Please, please. Somebody sign this doofus. Maybe the Vikings or the Bears (not the Packers; as full disclosure, I do have an ownership interest in the Green Bay Packers, Inc.).
We'll quickly find out why he's an ex-NFL quarterback.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
red1066 4/18/2022 1:21:43 PM (No. 1131807)
Running out of money? He's in his mid-thirties and hasn't played in more than five or six years. Plus, he was never that great to begin with.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
kono 4/18/2022 1:25:48 PM (No. 1131811)
The "Progressive" media all swooned over his most recent workout / demo day, declaring that he could still run and pass like a pro. The only reason they could get away with making that claim was that there was no way to gauge how his conditioning and skills compare to those of active NFL QBs (nor real game conditions to gauge whether his senses and reaction times were on-par with real-game speeds).
I bet he's more comparable to a decent high school QB than to even the least-capable active NFL QB.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
padiva 4/18/2022 1:25:50 PM (No. 1131812)
Is there a professional women's football league......anywhere in the world?
CK could transgender and be a success. /s
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Nexus-1 4/18/2022 1:40:11 PM (No. 1131824)
He sucks and the NFL's defensive coordinators had figured out how to best play against him. That, and the obvious shenanigans, is why he ain't playing no more!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
paral04 4/18/2022 1:41:12 PM (No. 1131826)
I thought he said that the NFL owners were slave owners. Why would he want to enslave himself for all those millions of dollars? "Born Free", right?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
upstater 4/18/2022 2:07:26 PM (No. 1131843)
He is a very fine quarterback and Jill Biden is a very fine MD - just ask Whoopi Goldberg.
15 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
CivilServant 4/18/2022 2:13:19 PM (No. 1131848)
Y’all are harsh, man………CK has every right to return to the NFL……….all y’all won’t even help a brother out……well, I’m stepping up!!
Yo!! CK my mannnnnn…….www.Ticketmaster.com’ll sell ya a ticket for your choice of games!!!
Go git em, tiger!!!
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Don't try Philadelphia. Remember they booed Santa Clause. Wonder what they would do to a kneeler?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
SALady 4/18/2022 2:27:41 PM (No. 1131861)
This egotistical jerk has gotten exactly what he deserved as far as the NFL.
When he started the whole "racist thug disrespecting our nation" stunt, there were several teams that would have hired him to be a 3rd-string QB for their team just to show their "woke" credentials. But he was a mediocre QB at best, and with all the negative baggage he was carrying, nobody was going to hire him and make him their starter. The NFL is still all about one color -- and that color is green (as in cash). But his ego demanded that he be a starter -- and nobody bit. Several years later, and the woke garbage is mostly passed, so nobody wants him to taint their teams with his anti-American BS.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/18/2022 3:05:22 PM (No. 1131888)
If an NFL team is dumb enough to sign him, I would think that team would lose a bunch of paying customers.
And, during the 2021 NFL season, were any players kneeling during the National Anthem? Or did they stay in the locker room until after it was played?
But the measure of stupidity was when two NFL teams, a couple of years ago, played a game in London, England, and some of the players knelt during our National Anthem, but stood respectfully for God Save The Queen.
Apparently, no one told them about British involvement in the slave trade.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
lftrn97 4/18/2022 3:05:51 PM (No. 1131889)
Might be a team looking to cut their attendance in half.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/18/2022 3:41:41 PM (No. 1131907)
Nah guine hoppin, Colon.........
Move along now................
4 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/18/2022 3:52:15 PM (No. 1131919)
Too old. Too unpracticed. Too much trouble. And expects too much money.
8 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/18/2022 4:02:22 PM (No. 1131925)
he hasn't put on the pads for 6 years? very good chance the boy is all washed up and had better start looking for a job driving a taxi - a fitting end for a minor leaguer
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Peaches 4/18/2022 4:05:27 PM (No. 1131927)
He must be broke.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 4/18/2022 4:32:59 PM (No. 1131946)
No. He has relevency so long as the perception is that he wants to play, but the bad white guy cabal with the old school ties and the secret handshakes are preventing him from playing.
The MINUTE he says he's moved on and has put football behind him, that's it. He's done.
I seriously doubt he really wants to play again. And with every draft season, he becomes less and less relevent.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
westsnoop 4/18/2022 7:09:31 PM (No. 1132012)
Maybe his buddy Harbaugh will give Kaepernick a job at the University of Michigan. Creeps are made for each other.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/19/2022 12:18:51 AM (No. 1132116)
Never forget that this is all an Entertainment business. The point is to Entertain and Please the audience.
This jerk had his chance, got paid more money in a year than most hardworking people earn in a lifetime, then he 'Pooped in the Punch Bowl' and cost the whole operation Billion$.
Any Franchise of the Business that would hire him now is asking for a repeat of all those losses. Not just for their franchise, but for All the franchises.
Sorry Charlie (Colon), you had your chance..... and you blew it...... deliberately.
As other posters have said..... Learn to Code.
Or....learn to Nail Shingles on a Roof!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
mifla 4/19/2022 4:22:49 AM (No. 1132153)
Coaches don't like problem children. I suspect Colin is running out of money and can't stand the thought of getting a job that does not pay millions of dollars per year.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
franq 4/19/2022 6:05:02 AM (No. 1132170)
Stick a fork in him. He's done.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/19/2022 10:47:24 AM (No. 1132435)
Really, I wouldn't hire this moron to take out the trash!
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
broken01 4/19/2022 10:48:23 AM (No. 1132439)
If I was an NFL team owner I wouldn't let Krapernick be a towel boy let alone a member of my team. He along with his racist radical girlfriend needs to GTFA and go grift somewhere else.
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His ego keeps getting in the way. Will his ego let him take a job as a backup QB ?