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We've had discussions about Kaepernick before, but I was not able to pull up our prior discussions this morning. Since Nike started their ad campaign, the value of the company has gone up $6 billion. Two teams so far (the Patriots and the Raiders) apparently are interested in talking to him, but this morning's surprise was the San Francisco 49ers, who just lost their starting quarterback: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/09/25/jimmy-garoppolo-injury-prompts-calls-ers-bring-back-colin-kaepernick/?utm_term=.ea8c53feeae8
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TJ The team with the least revenue last season was the Oakland Raiders, who "only" took in $335 million. The team that took in the most money was the Dallas Cowboys, who earned $864 million. If you did some "quick and dirty math", the total income for all of the NFL teams was $16 billion. To quote the late Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, "a billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon we're talking about some serious money". https://www.statista.com/statistics/193553/revenue-of-national-football-league-teams-in-2010/ The revenue for the L.A. Rams is MUCH less than the revenue of the New England Patriots - but they are still going to the Super Bowl. If you're a "numbers guy", you will find it interesting to compare the salaries of the various quarterbacks compares to their team's revenue. The lowest paid quarterback is Rolanda McClain, whose salary last year was $16.5 million. Peyton Manning is the highest paid quarterback, at $32.4 million, which is equal to 8% of the total revenue for the Jaguars. Colin Kaepernick was paid $19,000,000 in 2016. http://www.nfl.com/photoessays/09000d5d829f6793/highest-paid-nfl-players-on-forbes-list
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In September, Colorado store owner Steve Martin announced that he was going to stop selling Nike gear in his store in order to protest Colin Kaepernick: https://abc13.com/business/store-owner-to-stop-selling-nike-over-colin-kaepernick-ad/4160888/ Karma is a funny thing. Yesterday, Mr. Martin announced that he was closing his Colorado Springs store, Prime Times Sports, after 20 years in business, because he could no longer afford the rent. Somehow, I have a feeling that Schmidt won't be sending him a sympathy card. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/02/colorado-sports-store-nike-close-kaepernick “Being a sports store without Nike is kind of like being a milk store without milk or a gas station without gas. How do you do it? They have a monopoly on jerseys,” said Martin. Martin says he’s the only full service, licensed fan shop between Castle Rock and the New Mexico border. Despite having all 32 NFL team’s apparel in his store, he doesn’t have any current players’ jerseys–because of his decision to drop all Nike apparel. Martin came to the realization that Kaepernick and Marshall have a lot of supporters who can shop elsewhere. “As much as I hate to admit this, perhaps there are more Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick supporters out there than I realized,” said Martin.
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Plantation mentality of the owners. Wow, that was a heavy line mentioned on the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption. YouTube link youtu.be/JbxCQ3DjGiA
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Colin Kaepernick was in the news again this week due to another controversy about a flag. Here's the opinion of a local columnist: "Nike had planned to release the Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July, featuring the Betsy Ross flag, on July 1 but instead benched it because Colin Kaepernick was offended. It seems some white nationalist groups in the Patriot Movement have taken to waving the Betsy Ross flag, the one with 13 stars in a circle and 13 stripes. So because a bunch of ignorant jerks co-opted America’s first flag, one of America’s major companies put on a pair of its overpriced footwear and sprinted into full-fledged retreat. 
Sorry, Nike, but you red, white and blew it." http://arizonarepublic.az.newsmemory.com/?publink=1bd445f37 Here's a competing opinion from USA Today: Roy Tatem, president of the East Valley NAACP, said he didn’t believe the flag was intended to be racist or a racially motivated symbol. He said there wasn’t evidence of Ross being a racist or a slaveholder and he didn’t find the flag offensive. http://arizonarepublic.az.newsmemory.com/?publink=09e4c4fde I strongly support Nike's decision to have Colin Kaepernick their "poster boy", but I'm also of the opinion that they should have explained to him that the Betsy Ross flag should not be considered to be racially insensitive. Kaepernick's opinion is that the shoe reminded him of slavery, but that's REALLY a stretch, since EIGHTEEN U.S. Presidents owned slaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves If you carry that argument to its logical conclusion, none of us should keep any bills with denominations of $1,$20, or $50, since Washington, Jackson, and Grant all owed slaves. That's just silly. Very few people, including me, had any idea that the Betsy Ross flag was used by white supremacist groups. By their decision to drop the shoe, Nike has inadvertently given free publicity to the white supremacist knuckleheads.
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