By David Hogberg -- BombThrowers——Bio and Archives--October 18, 2017
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I think filing the grievance is a mistake. Kaepernick has a really tough road to hoe to make this case out. Really tough. Unless he comes up with some smoking-gun email or text message, which isn’t going to exist because these owners are smart people, it’s going to be very tough. [Kaepernick has to show that two or more teams] got together and agreed not to sign him because of his political viewpoint. He’s going to need some direct evidence of that.But the owners didn’t need to conspire to keep Kaepernick out of the NFL. They merely had to use common sense. At best, Kaepernick would be a backup quarterback, and as I wrote at the beginning of the NFL season:
…it’s pretty simple why Kaepernick isn’t on a team. No fan goes to an NFL game or watches on television because of the backup quarterback. So if you are an NFL team owner, you realize that Kaepernick has no value to you insofar as attracting fans if you sign him as a backup quarterback. However, his past antics might very well drive some fans away. And any NFL owner who can rub two brain cells together knows that driving fans away means driving dollars away.Finally, at the Daily Beast Robert Silverman laments that Kaepernick’s NLF career is over. “He’s done. Period,” writes Silverman. Let’s hope so.
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David Hogberg is a writer living in Maryland. He is author of the book, “Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians.”
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