A theoretical question about Colin Kaepernick, a man who has had some success in playing quarterback in the NFL and some failures in playing quarterback in the NFL.<\/p>\n
And, short of his protest — and perhaps overmarch in protest to wearing “cop pig” socks and praising Castro —<\/p>\n
Let us suppose some team signs him up. \u00c2\u00a0Some mediocre team with one of these laughable mediocre quarterbacks that everyone points to as being picked over him (Jay Cutler retired due to lack of interest, only to jump back in<\/em>) struggles. \u00c2\u00a0And he is relegated to backup quarterback for the team. \u00c2\u00a0And the starter struggles. \u00c2\u00a0And Kaepernick is not put in there.<\/p>\n Will there be protests, and from whom, and to what? \u00c2\u00a0Would there be cries of racism due to his not playing, or is his appearance on a roster enough?<\/p>\n Still. \u00c2\u00a0Kaeperneck jerseys remain hot sellers. \u00c2\u00a0If they’re found mainly in protest groups and not nfl stadiums, he’s bigger than the game, like…<\/p>\n Do those St Louis Rams “Sam” jerseys that sold like firecrackers when this first out gay player was drafted (and never made it onto a team) still sell?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A theoretical question about Colin Kaepernick, a man who has had some success in playing quarterback in the NFL and some failures in playing quarterback in the NFL. And, short of his protest — and perhaps overmarch in protest to wearing “cop pig” socks and praising Castro — Let us suppose some team signs him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16748,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions\/16748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}