On Sunday, a seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback announced he was unretiring and putting on a jersey again.
Also on Sunday, a quarterback who bombed out of the league in 2016 and hasn’t played a game in over five years announced he was looking for receivers to work out with for a possible comeback.
Twitter seemed to think both were equally important.
Perhaps they were. Sure, Tom Brady’s return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2022 is likely to have a more substantive impact on the league, but Colin Kaepernick’s tweet for “professional route runners” to work out with him might end up having more of a cultural impact.
After all, in his Netflix special released last autumn, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback compared the NFL’s draft — and the pre-draft workouts known as the combine — to a slave auction. The league, if the metaphor holds, is therefore a plantation, albeit a well-remunerated one.
But Kaepernick still wants to play in the NFL after all these years.
(The double standard is astounding — and yet the left holds him up as the athletic conscience of an entire sport, if not sports itself. We’ve been documenting Kaepernick’s hypocrisy since the beginning here at The Western Journal, and we’ll continue to do it. You can help us by subscribing.)
The quarterback-turned-activist first drew attention to his latest comeback attempt when he posted this video on Thursday:
Still Working pic.twitter.com/ezBzWf6bUI
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) March 10, 2022
ESPN’s Adam Schefter quoted a source who said Kaepernick was “in the best shape of his life. He wants to play. He’s ready [to] play. He would be a great fit for teams with QB vacancies to fill who want to win a Super Bowl.”
Colin Kaepernick is still working out and is said to be, in the words of one source, “in the best shape of his life. He wants to play. He’s ready play. He would be a great fit for teams with QB vacancies to fill who want to win a Super Bowl.” https://t.co/VAXfKlZ6E4
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 10, 2022
On Sunday, Kaepernick sent out another tweet advertising his services.
“For The past 5 years I’ve been working out and staying ready in case an opportunity to play presented itself. I’m really grateful to my trainer, who I’ve been throwing to all this time. But man, do I miss throwing to professional route runners,” he tweeted.
“Who’s working?? I will pull up.”
For The past 5 years I’ve been working out and staying ready in case an opportunity to play presented itself. I’m really grateful to my trainer, who I’ve been throwing to all this time. But man, do I miss throwing to professional route runners.
Who’s working?? I will pull up
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) March 13, 2022
Let’s think back to last October, when Kaepernick’s Netflix special, “Colin in Black and White,” aired. This is how he described the NFL draft combine:
Colin Kaepernick, in his new Netflix special, compares NFL training camps to slavery. pic.twitter.com/bu5C2alild
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 30, 2021
“What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic,” Kaepernick said.
“Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod and examine you searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respect. No dignity left intact.”
Then the draft prospects morphed into slaves, because of course they did.
So the slaves are sold off to plantations, if we follow this. The plantations then use the slaves as unpaid lab — actually, no, wait, they’re pretty well-paid. Also, they can walk away whenever they want. And they’re famous.
And Kaepernick now wants back in on this.
There were two schools of reactions to this from Serious Bluecheckmark-dom, neither of which was spontaneous laughter.
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