Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
It doesn't matter. Nike is hardly the only major corporation with skeletons in its closet. Let's not demonize Nike while losing track of reality. But this isn't about defending Nike the company. This is about a simple TV ad which has only positive messages in it. Should the fact that Kaepernick appears in the ad matter? That in itself is an indictment on society. The fact that so much negativity can be spewed over a TV ad which attempts to carry a positive message. Look at it this way. Not everyone in the U.S. knows who Kaepernick is. Not everybody follows football or cares about the Kaepernick controversy. So for them to see that ad, and then read about the commotion it's caused, particularly from the President himself..... must be puzzling.

The fact that Brock calls Kaepernick "nauseating" is rather a positive thing as far as I'm concerned, judging from Brock's general view on things.

It doesn't matter whether Colin (Kaepernick's too long) is/was a good player or not. He's gone, courtesy of the NFL. They saw to that. Problem solved. The guy lost millions in potential income. So if a famous athletic wear brand wants to have him in a commercial of theirs, what is it to anybody else, particularly the frigging POTUS, who should be out there defending himself from the shit storms gathering around the White House, as well as running the country.
This is hardly the first time a player rightly or wrongly has claimed they've been blackballed from a league here are a few examples: Craig Hodges (NBA, ties to NOI & Farrakhan), Kerry Rhodes (NFL, because it's assumed that he's gay), Eric Reid (NFL, Anthem with Kaep), Ray Rice (NFL, domestic violence), Muhammad Ali (boxing, but only for a period of time), Connie Hawkins (NBA, gambling I believe), Rashad McCants (NBA, he's mentally unstable), Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (NBA, refusal to stand for the Anthem but he worked a deal with the NBA and then later had to go overseas to play)....and there's PLENTY of guys who could still play or perform who didn't get the opportunity for whatever reason like Steve Francis a great guard in the NBA who apparently has/had a huge drinking problem.


Blackballing Kaep makes him a martyr....I'm all for letting the guy play but at the same time his girl calling Ray Lewis an Uncle Tom when he was trying to get him signed up with the Ravens probably made him persona non grata with a lot of folks....who wants to extend a helping hand when you're going to get slammed with that tag? I'm not a huge Ray Lewis fan either, dude witnessed a murder and clammed up about it not a great look, but he was/is the face of the Ravens franchise...it would be like going to the Dodgers and calling Sandy Koufax an antisemetic slur or Jackie Robinson a racial slur...it's just not done by anyone who wants to have or keep a job.