Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback-turned-activist who started the anthem protests by refusing “to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” continues to be both unemployed and making headlines. In the latest episode of the Kaepernick saga, the NFL extended an invitation to the sidelined QB to meet one-on-one with commissioner Roger Goodell — a proposition that quickly devolved into a snarky public feud between Kaepernick’s lawyer and an NFL spokesman.
Kaepernick has filed a grievance against the NFL for allegedly “colluding” to keep him unemployed in the league in “retaliation” for his “leadership and advocacy for equality and social justice and his bringing awareness to peculiar institutions still undermining racial equality in the United States.” League insiders, however, have suggested that the real reason no team has picked up Kaepernick has more to do with common sense than conspiracy: No team wants to put up with the headache of hiring a politically divisive player who’s also sub-par at his position.
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