NFL Owner Testifies...He Changed His Mind About Hiring Kaepernick After Trump's Comments

[DonViejo]

NFL Owner Testifies Under Oath that He Changed His Mind About Hiring Kaepernick After Trump’s Comments

by Amy Dash | 8:07 pm, May 29th, 2018

An NFL owner testified under penalty of perjury that he changed his mind about hiring NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick because of President Trump’s comments, Kaepernick’s attorney Mark Geragos told me on my podcast “Straight Aim”Tuesday.

The Kaepernick legal team has already conducted more than 14 depositions of league coaches, managers and owners including billionaire Patriots owner Bob Kraft Geragos said, revealing that several owners have testified that Trump and/or Kaepernick’s position regarding the national anthem influenced their hiring practices.

“In this civil case, there’s no doubt that the existing coaches — and I’m talking about Super Bowl-winning coaches — have testified under oath that he’s a starting quarterback in this league, and so that’s mind boggling,” Geragos said. “When you ask them … specifically why he isn’t he being hired … they say because of the national anthem policy.”

“The only reason — and the owners will admit that — they haven’t signed him is they’re afraid of Trump, and they’ve colluded because of Trump,” Geragos said.

Geragos said the new NFL national anthem policy only helps Kaepernick’s case and he didn’t think the NFL would be “stupid enough” to change the national anthem Policy, “but they did.”

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[Aristus]

1. They're afraid of Trump?!?!

He's such a big pussy, I can only wonder how often he grabs himself...

[jcgoldie]

2. I think he means

They are afraid he'll turn the deplorables against the NFL. I know that NFL fans are a diverse group overall, but I would suspect the redneck NASCAR contingent might be the single largest block.

[Aristus]

4. What nonsense.

If there's anything the Trumpanzees embrace with more fervent, brainless, religious zeal than Trump himself, it's professional football.

If the NFL were to close up shop today, there would be an epidemic of mass suicide among the Deplorables the likes of which the world has never seen before.

[Calista241]

20. College football is bigger than the NFL for Trumpers IMO.

[pstokely]

23. ironically most of those don't have a college degree

nt

[Initech]

7. I think they were more afraid of what Fox News would do to them.

After all this is the network that convinced its' fans to destroy their Keurigs and burn their season tickets.

[pstokely]

24. faux could probably convince it's viewers to jump off bridges

nt

[Initech]

32. And they would if they knew it would piss us off.

[blueinredohio]

3. Hopefully Kaepernick will sue Trump for all money lost by being black balled

[MagickMuffin]

5. by being black balled . . . . . . and for being BLACK

I'm for team Colin

[Calista241]

21. He can't. Trump is entitled to his opinion.

and he's entitled to speak out about his opinion. Unless he's threatened financial penalties / regulations / or some other governmental enforcement if the NFL hires Kaepernick, then any lawsuit would get tossed out.

And Trump's comments / complaints weren't about Kaepernick being black, or because he had a hairstyle Trump didn't like. It was because of Kaepernick's conduct of kneeling during the national anthem. At least that's what he'll say. It's a nice little legal out for Trump that he seem all to proficient at.

[RandomAccess]

6. This totally breaks my heart

AND enrages me.

[Initech]

8. The sooner Fox News is wiped from our collective conscious the better.

That POS network gave us the worthless fucking asshole in the White House, talks to him on a daily basis, and convinced the people who support this lunatic that the people who don't are not American. The sooner they go the better.

[Perseus]

11. It wasn't Fox alone

The entire media gave trump more airtime, and softball interviews than they have done to any other candidate.

It wasn't the CEO of fox who said that trump was big revenue for his media business.

"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."
~~ Leslie Moonves

They are all complicit to this tragedy.

I do agree with you that it would be a good thing if fox left the airwaves.

[Initech]

13. Also all of AM hate radio needs to go.

Hate has no place in a free society, but to advocate for such a thing would be to be against free speech and I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot pole.

[Gothmog]

9. Collin is going to win this lawsuit against the NFL

[LiberalFighter]

10. The old and new anthem policy is of the owner's doing.

[oberliner]

12. What about the CFL?

Why don't they offer him a QB job?

[Brother Buzz]

17. With his skill set and rocket arm he should do a Tim Tebow and pursue baseball

In the 2009, Kaepernick was drafted by the Chicago Cubs as a pitcher.

Hell, in street clothes he threw an 87 mph first pitch at a Giants Game

[SidDithers]

19. How do you know they haven't?...

He's been contacted by both Hamilton and Montreal, but has shown no interest in playing in the CFL.

Sid

[WePurrsevere]

29. Perhaps accepting would detract from the main purpose of his lawsuit...

He shouldn't have to leave his country to play in a game that he loves and is very good at any more than he should have to stand for the National Anthem when quietly taking a knee IS respectful and calls attention to very real problems that need solutions.

[SidDithers]

31. Agreed...

He's also got nothing to prove. His skills and abilities are known.

He's not Johnny Manziel, trying to show that he can actually play.

Sid

[Kaleva]

14. Very few owners are involved in the hiring or firing of players

Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, is a rare exception and even his input is limited.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. Don't forget that jerk in Washington, Dan Snyder.

He is always screwing up making bad personnel decisions, plus he is hard core repuke asshole.

[Kaleva]

16. I think Snyder has been backing off for the past number of years

Mike Shanahan had total control while he was coach and I'm pretty sure that was the situation with Joe Gibbs Part II.

Synder's missteps early on are the stuff of legend.

[JCanete]

18. wow...they really testified this way on record? I figured his case would be a longshot because

they would all just lie about their reasons for going with somebody else, but now I'm not sure under what legal arguments he could lose.

[Alethia Merritt]

22. Can Kap sue Trump for loss of income? nt

[Lee-Lee]

27. Not and get anywhere

Ultimately even if every owner and manager says that the combination of his protests and Trumps statements made them not want to hire him, that isn’t anything that is actionable in court. Because they will just say that a player who does controversial things can be bad for business if they alienate part of the fan base.

[Cha]

25. What does this say about this country that NFL

owners are afraid of donaldFuckingtrump?

Wonder if they voted for their overlord?

[Afromania]

26. I know EXACTLY what it says about a certain segment of the population in this country.

[Kaleva]

28. Interesting that some accept the lawyer's comments as gospel without verification

It's human nature to readily accept statements that enforce one's world view and to more readily dismiss statements that oppose one's core world view.

The statement by Kaepernick’s attorney Mark Geragos goes against how the NFL. Very few owners are involved in the hiring and firing of players.

[Buns_of_Fire]

30. "Ummmm... That Trump ass is TASTY!" say the owners.

"And there's so MUCH of it!"

Not to mention some anti-monopoly or anti-trust stuff he could probably pull from his XXXL jockstrap (the waist, not the cup).