How The Fuck Did Roger Think This Was Gonna Go?

I mean, he has to be a huge fucking dumbass to even attempt to fix the league’s communications apparatus to make a statement about the ongoing protest, given the NFL’s continued blackballing of Colin Kaepernick for protesting this very fucking thing, right?

Whatever advisor told Roger Goodell, who represents the owners who have banished Kap from league existence, who are so petty that they wouldn’t allow Kaepernick to be a free agent in their shitty, horrible football video game, that the NFL just had to take a stance on police brutality should be fired without paid. Whatever Karen or Chet gave him that idea should never work in public relations ever again. Christ, what a bonehead move.

Colin Kaepernick took a knee, silently protesting police brutality in 2016. Colin Kaepernick was roundly criticized by the league’s various mouthpieces for not simply knowing his role and shutting his mouth while his people died. The President of the Actual United States called Colin Kaepernick and anyone else who protested a son of a bitch. He was released by the 49ers, and he’s been unemployed ever since.

They worked The Player’s Coalition, a group of well-meaning but ultimately useless black players and also Josh McKown for some reason, into having the rest of the league’s black players cease to protest. The Player’s Coalition got some funds diverted from other league propaganda factories charities so they could go be the respectful negros in the scenario, while Eric Reid pointed out that taking money from the owners without securing Kaepernick an opportunity was pointless. Reid soon found himself blackballed until the Panthers were so desperate for a decent safety they had no choice but to sign him.

The league would continue to blackball him while paying actual, literally terrible quarterbacks like Blaine Gabbert and Case Keenum over and over and fucking over again, despite all evidence being that they were terrible. The Dolphins once coaxed Jay Cutler out of a retirement he had no intention of abandoning, paid him a shitload of money, and watched in amazement as it turned out that paying a quarterback who does not give a fuck anymore is actual a deeply dumb move.

The NFL scheduled a sham workout for Colin Kaepernick without notice to either himself or the teams who might be interested in signing him, and when Kap balked at the league’s clear attempt to silence him, Kap was once again roundly criticized for not making the best of a clearly fucking rigged opportunity.

Yes, this group of white owners who have shunned someone who, at worst, was an adequate quarterback, decided now was the fucking time to release a statement about George Floyd. Words can not accurately convey how loudly tons of actually sane people screamed “fuck you” at Goodell and the league as whole.

Because how fucking dare they. Again, Kap is, as of this moment, still a free agent, precisely because he protested this shit. And he didn’t even make a big deal of it. Angry white people who need shit to be angry about shit made a big deal out of it.

Kap spoke with people in the actual military to figure out the proper way to protest, and it didn’t fucking matter. He has said that he wouldn’t kneel if he entered the NFL again. Didn’t fucking matter. They kicked him out of the league, and that one dude in your office won’t shut up about how he’s only out of the league because he sucks when Jarrett fuckin’ Stidham looks like he’s going to start for the Patriots and the Colts are gonna try to win games with the old quarterback the Chargers didn’t fucking want and the Giants have Colt “has never been good” McCoy backing up Daniel Jones. I could go on forever about the list of quarterbacks worse than Kaepernick. This is the league that dragged fucking Matt Moore out of exile to play football.

This is the league where Jameis Winston threw 30 INTs in 16 games, not to mention getting credibly accused of sexual assault on multiple fucking occasions, and he’s fucking employed. It’s the league where Ben Roethlisberger will probably go into the Hall of Fame despite whining about his fellow teammates on the radio and, oh yeah, getting credibly accused of sexual assault on multiple occasions. The league let shithead and UFC trash can Greg Hardy play actual football games for the Cowboys and only kicked him out when he wasn’t any good. The same league that made Ray Rice’s wife apologize for Ray Rice knocking her out. The same league where Josh Allen goes in the first round despite not being good and putting racist shit on his Twitter. The Patriots drafted a kicker who’s a white supremacist. The league is littered with examples of why Kaepernick’s continued exclusion from the NFL is absolute horseshit.

Like the cowards they are, the NFL quickly released a bunch of statements absolving them of any wrongdoing, helpfully reminding everyone that Kap is a free agent and is technically free to sign with any team.

Like most black people in America, Kaepernick is only technically free.

So what the fuck was Roger expecting? A fucking pat on the back? Did the owners want to receive some good PR? Did they want to stand opposite of Trump for once, who’s labeled protesters terrorists?

Well congrats, Roger; it didn’t fucking work. No one is that stupid. No one is fucking blind. No one has forgotten. You can try and set Kaepernick up to fall as much as you want. People’s memories are long when it comes to injustice, especially black people.

The only time Goodell should fix his mouth to speak out about inequality is when he goes on national television and issues an apology to Colin Kaepernick. When he admits that he was wrong, and the owners realize that they were wrong, and that they will no longer collude to keep him from gainful employment, and that he will now be actually free to sign with a team. Once Goodell addresses the league’s own discrimination problem, he can speak.

Until them, this ginger fuckboi should keep his motherfucking mouth shut, now and fucking forever.