Just the Facts

Let’s begin today with some facts.  I am not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination, although I did play baseball, football, basketball, and ran the 880 in track.  I was a so-so contestant who tried their best but felt academics and team-playing was far more important than individualism.

That being said, we now all know why I never got a scholarship for sports or academics.  I simply didn’t deserve one.

Here are some more facts.  A person who was a good baseball pitcher in high school was offered several scholarships to play college baseball.  Those offers were refused because he felt he would rather play football, but was not offered football scholarships.

Eventually, the University of Nevada offered him a football scholarship in 2006 – the only one offered to him because he was a mediocre player.

After graduation from college he landed a spot in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers.  He signed a 6-year contract worth $126,000,000, with $54,000,000 in potential guarantees.

His stats prove him a somewhat mediocre performer.  In 2015, he passed for 6 touchdowns; he also threw 5 interceptions.  That is not stellar.

This now 28-year old African-American was raised by white parents who may, or may not, have influenced his selfish, child-like behavior.

You see, this self-centered prima donna is Colin Kaepernick.

Self-centered jerk

During the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at a pre-season August 26^th game against the Green Bay Packers, Kaepernick refused to stand to honor the flag, and the men and women who died for it.

When asked about this conduct, he said, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

In other words, the police are bigots, just as the white fans who pay for expensive stadium seats, television viewers who are forced to watch countless ads, and ardent fans who purchase over-priced clothing to show their staunch allegiances.

You see, Kaepernick must have missed the last two presidential elections.  Those were the ones in which racist Americans elected the first African-American president, and the era America saw its first two African-American Attorneys General.  He also failed to see the many generals, police chiefs, senators, congressmen, and judges, who are African-American.

Kaepernick should also be advised that roughly 500,000 illegal aliens enter the United States annually.  Some swim across the Rio Grande, others float on inner tubes across shark-infested waters, while a few are packed into hot trucks, all to come to the greatest country on Earth.

One more fact.  When I played baseball, football, basketball, and ran track, I did it because it was fun; it was a game.  As children we run, ride bicycles, swim, and simply enjoy ourselves often through athletic diversions. 

Most kids do not excel at any of these activities; rather they participate for basic enjoyment.  And rarely do people make annual salaries in excess of $21,000,000.  So to say the people who pay your obscene salary for playing a game are racist demonstrates the level of intelligence of this malcontented whiner.

It seems as though Colin Kaepernick got an education, a great job, a scholarship, and pretty much everything else in life – except discipline.  And that’s too bad.