So it looks like somebody’s been lying. We’ve heard stories the last week about a potential meeting between NFL players and owners this week that was to include current free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick. We have now learned from Kap’s legal team and Slate that the qb was not invited to any such meeting nor was there any plan to invite him.
As many of you know, Kap has filed a lawsuit against the NFL and its owners claiming collusion in blackballing him from the league. It is Kap’s opinion and most sane people that he is being denied a spot in the league because of his protests against racial, economic, and social injustices. The protests of course coming into direct conflict with the beliefs of the NFL’s majority white owners and the league’s racist fans.
Mark Geragos, Kap’s lead attorney when asked about his client’s invitation to the player-owner meeting, said:
We specifically reached out to the [NFL Players Association] and to the Players Coalition [the group led by Malcolm Jenkins] and we were verbatim told that Colin had no role.
Why would the NFL through a spokesperson say they were looking forward to Kap participating if they knew he wasn’t invited? Why would the coalition led by Malcolm Jenkins say they were going to invite Kap and then not respond when asked about it by Kap’s legal team? There is a lot going on here.
The NFL is literally a league on fire right now, and I don’t mean that in a good way. The protests during the anthem and the owners’ disregard and nullifying of same has the players upset and rightfully so. Houston Texans owner Bob McNair when referring to the league’s player said, “We can’t have the inmates running the prison.” Donald Trump has referred to the players as “sons of bitches” and the on field play has been by and large pretty awful. The league is at a tipping point and of course there is the afore mentioned lawsuit by Kap.
The league is headed for a major day of reckoning and this time it may not go the way the powers that be, want it.
Flip the pages to see the emails between Kap’s legal team and the NFLPA and Malcolm Jenkins’ player coalition. If it was this easy to pull up proof that Kap wasn’t invited, how easy will it be for the legal team to prove collusion by the league’s owners?