Listening to Donald Trump likely cost the NFL tens of millions of dollars.

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Listening to Donald Trump likely cost the NFL tens of millions of dollars. https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/colin-kaepernick-settlement-nfl-anthem-protest-collusion.html via @slate His settlement with the league is a major victory for the leader of the league’s protest movement.



How Colin Kaepernick Beat the NFL

https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/colin-kaepernick-settlement-nfl-anthem-protest-collusion.html

His settlement with the league is a major victory for the leader of the league’s protest movement.

By Jeremy Stahl
Feb 15, 20195:22 PM


On Friday, the NFL and representatives for Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid announced that they had settled a grievance suit with the two players over alleged collusion to keep them out of the league because of their protests during the anthem.

“For the past several months, counsel for Mr. Kaepernick and Mr. Reid have engaged in an ongoing dialogue with representatives of the NFL. As a result of those discussions, the parties have decided to resolve the pending grievances,” the NFL and Kaepernick and Reid’s attorneys said in a joint announcement. “The resolution of this matter is subject to a confidentiality agreement so there will be no further comment by any party.”

Although the precise details of the settlement are as of yet unknown, it’s difficult to view the resolution as anything but a victory for Kaepernick and Reid. It will certainly be a win for the players financially. Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman reported that NFL teams were speculating the settlement with Kaepernick alone could have been in the $60 million to $80 million range.

Kaepernick filed his grievance against the league in October 2017, alleging that one or more teams had colluded with each other and/or the league to keep him out of the NFL because of his decision to kneel during the national anthem in the 2016–17 season as a protest against police brutality and systemic racism.

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Good!

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. While I am very happy that the NFL is paying

Colin for being blackballed, but what they are really paying for is SILENCE. I am positive, absolutely certain that the emails between the owners had racial words and overtones that they do NOT want the public to know about. 80M is the mist of a drop in the bucket to the NFL, but all in all, I suppose it is the most we could have expected from them.

[empedocles]

3. Yes

[uponit7771]

6. +1, the fact the NFL was tuned up like that in court will hopefully prevent future crap like this

[kimbutgar]

4. Here's a sporting goods owner in Colorado who screwed himself over boycotting Nike because

Of Kaepernick.

Prime Time sports store closing in Colorado Springs

The Colorado Springs sporting goods store that took a stand against Nike's Colin Kaepernick campaign and NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem is preparing to close.


Prime Time Sports created a stir last fall when it announced a boycott of Nike products after Nike launched its Kaepernick ad campaign. They also canceled an autograph session by Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall after his decision to take a knee during the national anthem in 2016.


https://gazette.com/news/prime-time-sports-store-closing-in-colorado-springs/article_3f3588a6-2e48-11e9-9f7f-f78cc34bc3f9.html


Couldn't happen to a bigger jerk!

[uponit7771]

7. This people will ... LITERALLY ... cut off their noses to spite their faces then claim "I didn't ..

... know that playing with that sharp knife near my nostrils could make this happen" !!!

[Initech]

9. I swear that if Trump told his followers to jump off a cliff, they'd do it.

Just to "trigger" the libs. Well it's their funeral.

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[uponit7771]

5. *** THIS !!! *** The NFL got tuned up TWICE. Once no doubt for listening to Benedict Donald

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8. Keep in mind the nfl decided this was a good deal compared to the likely legal outcome

They're giving him a large percentage of his likely career earnings without getting all those years of playing and without any chance of a lucky trial outcome.

That means they thought a trial would be even more damaging than the damage they did to him by completely taking away his career.

Rather telling.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Can not imagine the flack

Goddell was getting form NCAA Scouts and Agents over this Racist Bigoted issue. My next door neighbor is a ex NFLer,and his Teammates are outraged at the League for even thinking about barring a player from any Contract.

BTW,he said it would be between 50 and a 100 million for this to go away. And,with NFL player Contracts being renegotiated and negotiated in the next few months,players were demanding language to prevent this from happening to them.



There are Consequences when owners and a F--ed up President join hands in discrimination. That Tax Exempt status can disappear with a stroke of a pen.

[jmowreader]

12. Trump has always had a case of the ass for the NFL

He tried to worm his way in back in the 1980s with the USFL (which he bankrupted), and then in 2014 Roger Goodell kept him from buying the Buffalo Bills when it was up for sale.