Colin Kaepernick's Nike deal

As a veteran, I truly appreciate Colin Kaepernick's persistent principals and dignified actions.

This is about Kaepernick being able to exercise his right of speech without retaliation against him.

My greater point was some of these protesters against Nike are current and former military

Don’t settle for homecoming queen or linebacker. Do both.

Lose 120 pounds and become an ironman.

After beating a brain tumor.

Don’t believe you have to be like anybody, to be somebody.

If you’re born a refugee, don’t let it stop you from playing soccer for the National Team.

At age 16. Don’t become the best basketball player on the planet. Be bigger than basketball.

Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.

When they talk about the greatest team in the history of the sport, make sure it’s your team.

If you have only one hand, don’t just watch football. Play it. At the highest level.

And if you’re a girl from Compton, don’t just become a tennis player.

Become the greatest athlete ever.

Yeah, that’s more like it.

So, don’t ask if your dreams are crazy. Ask if they’re crazy enough.

Bottom line Colin has the right to kneel

The intention of naming and keeping the name Red Skins as your team is not intended to be racist or offensive

I've served and I've never considered for one second that people standing were in any way respecting the military. They weren't disrespecting it either. Why the national anthem and the military is connected in this discussion is beyond me.

the league's history with the national anthem illustrates another cherished American value: capitalism.

As ESPN's Stephen A. Smith and others have pointed out, NFL players have only been on the field for the anthem on a regular basis since 2009. At the time, sports leagues were paid millions of dollars by the U.S. Department of Defense to honor members of the military during the playing of "The Star-Spangled banner" without informing the public that they were watching a paid promotion.

A report released in 2015 by Arizona Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake found that the Pentagon spent $6.8 million on sports marketing contracts with the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer on what the senators dubbed "paid patriotism." The practice was subsequently banned by the Pentagon.

Don’t settle for homecoming queen or linebacker. Do both.

Lose 120 pounds and become an ironman.

After beating a brain tumor.

Don’t believe you have to be like anybody, to be somebody.

If you’re born a refugee, don’t let it stop you from playing soccer for the National Team.

At age 16. Don’t become the best basketball player on the planet. Be bigger than basketball.

Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.

When they talk about the greatest team in the history of the sport, make sure it’s your team.

If you have only one hand, don’t just watch football. Play it. At the highest level.

And if you’re a girl from Compton, don’t just become a tennis player.

Become the greatest athlete ever.

Yeah, that’s more like it.

So, don’t ask if your dreams are crazy. Ask if they’re crazy enough.

n fact, if there's one thing Cincinnati store owner Eric Koch wished he had in stock, it'd be a Kaepernick jersey.


Standing amid Bengals jerseys, athletic tape and Reds paraphernalia, Koch spoke to The Cincinnati Enquirer on Friday about how the latest controversy over Kaepernick has played out in his downtown Cincinnati store.

To start, go back to 2012 when Kaepernick took his San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl. Koch Sporting Goods did a decent business selling Kaepernick jerseys, but they ended up with a slew of extras they couldn't sell.

That was until Kaepernick first generated national headlines in 2016 for sitting during the national anthem at a 49ers preseason game to protest police brutality.

"We had them (Kaepernick jerseys) on the shelf for two years without anybody really buying them,'' Koch said. "Then, when it happened (Kaepernick protest), we sold all of them the next day.

"We still get a lot of calls for them,'' he said. "The problem is they don't make them anymore because he's not signed with anyone.''

Koch said sales of Nike products – mostly NFL jerseys – actually spiked at his store on the eve of the Thursday Night Football game between the Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens at Paul Brown Stadium.

"A lot of people might not go out and buy a T-shirt with a swoosh on it, but, ironically, when they need a Bengals' jersey, they still have to buy something with a swoosh on it, and that's not going to stop them,'' Koch said.

Geez Oralloy,
Maybe the problem isn't that you are lying.... maybe the problem is that you don't seem to understand ******* English!

You are saying that he called for "Black people to be able to murder police officers". There is nothing in that quote you keep posting that says anything of the sort.

You are either lying, or you have basic problem understanding the English language.

Maybe you are so ideologically far gone, that you you have the ability to tell the difference between "fact" and conservative wet dream.

you are basically making the ridiculous argument that everyone who disagrees with you wants to murder police officers.

Everyone who is part of Black Lives Matter is in favor of murdering police officers.

Everyone who supports Black Lives Matter is in favor of murdering police officers.

Everyone who supports Colin Kaepernick is in favor of murdering police officers.

Nike is in favor of murdering police officers.

either you are deliberately lying or you are unwell - perhaps both. my money would be on the 2nd option

you are NOT telling the truth

I know members of those 3 groups as well as several Nike employees - none of them support police officers being murdered.

I am a member of two of those groups. I do not support anyone being murdered - including police officers.

You have not told the truth.
Full stop.