that's too bad

How did you make him a star? You didn't even win a CTFPL Champ until there was only 4 squads left in free inf and with half my boys from GB.

Damn. I didn't mean for the conversation to go down this path.

So Iron and Sov are bros though? I just thought they were good friends. I know so little.

Yeah and they have another brother who rarely plays anymore.

maybe you are mistaken.

Sov was a nobody until he was on PT and made into a star. Glad to know I hit a soft spot though.

emp always stirring the pot


THANKS EMP

LOL

I was just like "why do the dudes from Phoenix Down & Pure Talent hate you"

^_^

no soft spot, just facts bro

I hope DP's FB post isn't about me ROFL

<i>Everybody so ignorant and angry on the internet lately. Keep it up people!
-dp</i>

It's not buddy. It's about all these idiots burning Nikes and shit. Even the one old fuck who lit his shoes on fire and now has 3rd degree burns on his feet and is in the ER. People are dumb.

I heard sov was a nobody in usl until champion picked him up from the trash bin. Then he became the monster known as The Great Khali???

Zmn probably supports people burning Nikes though because Kap is the face of Nike now. ;)

actually he won his first ring with us on apoc, after we scraped him from under hairynutz (tickle party)

what a bunch of racist retards

I'm going to have to go buy some Nikes at this rate

I own Nike shoes, a couple Nike hats and Nike golf shirts. I might not be a weirdo and go burn them but I will def throw them in the garbage. Colin Kaepernick sacrificed nothing. He was a QB beginning to fade and then began his protest. He gained all of the attention he did and then opted to be a free agent. No teams showed interest in him (because he was a cancer) and as reported by ESPN and the AP on March 3, 2017, Kaepernick advised that would stand for the national anthem for the following season. If he was so principled in his stance, why would he cave and say he would now stand the next season?

That isn't the sign of someone who sacrificed anything. A sacrifice is intentional, something you knowingly do. Kaepernick did something not knowing it would cost him his career and the moment he felt the pressure (no one wanted to sign him) he caved and said he would end the protest.

It wasn't until after he said he would stand for the anthem and still not did not get signed that he then double-downed with his protest. He double-downed because that was the only other option because he already screwed himself.

Kaepernick is not a hero. He is not a role model. He did not sacrifice anything. He was mediocre NFL player with significant potential that protested an exaggerated social issue while on the job because he thought he could get away with it - and he didn't.

Nike shouldn't be holding someone like that on a pedestal. By doing that, Nike is encouraging its massive youth following to protest on the job, protest against the flag and the country, support anti-law enforcement rhetoric and hate. I recommend a new slogan for Nike...

<i>Don't do it.</b>

To play the devils advocate here for a second i would be pretty pissed if I was a shareholder of Nike because in the words of Jordan republicans buy sneakers too. And seriously Fuck Colin Kaepernick guy decides he wants to be a martyr the second he got a new contract and he started to play like shit. The message might be right but the messenger isn't.

tl;dr

Jesus ZMN, that was the most texan response I've ever read.

Again nobody is protesting the country, the flag, veterans, or any other branch of military/law enforcement. It was a peaceful protest to bring attention to the fact that black youths are being imprisoned and murdered by police officers at an alarming rate, furthermore those imprisoning and murdering are not being held accountable for their actions.

He lead his team to the NFC champ game and a superbowl in back to back years, I don't know how that's considered mediocre, no he wasn't aaron rodgers or Tom Brady, but he was a winner and he certainly was in the top 15 qbs in the league. He was also way better than most of the starters in the past few seasons that could have signed him. He currently has a collusion suit against the NFL and it's owners for not wanting to sign him for peaceful protest, which is the same as not hiring someone because they're christian, or not christian. Which is illegal in every other job in the US.

Now, I don't believe Collin was the best choice to head this movement but he became a figurehead that people could attach himself to. He doesn't do the most that he could in his position but he does donate and raise millions of dollars for charities/foundations relating to the cause.

Throwing away apparel because you don't like their spokesman is utterly ridiculous. Donate the shoes/tshirts to homeless veterans that people seem to care so much about but do nothing about at all. To be so close minded that you don't support a company for putting a person on their add who was holding a peaceful protest shows how narrow-minded this country really can be.

I don't think you should have any problem with people protesting and questioning law enforcement zmn that's going against the grain of what this country was supposedly founded on if we could only really get a movement that has the first amendment as deified as the 2nd this country would be better off.

What I don't like about these protests is that the message is about perceived racism from the police. It's a 2 way street and yes while you are going to find some Podunk cop here and there who is just flat out racist most of these issues arise from inner cities. The problem with that narrative is they are policing a community where day in a day out you are seeing the same shit over and over and it's hard to go well they are all aren't like that when that community shields the people who are like that. This is the argument that gets lost in the discourse and if you want to fix the root problem of all this deal with the absolute income inequalities that exist. It's just a byproduct of what you have to deal with deal day in and day out if all you see every day is the worst of humanity you start to get conceptualized views of a certain community. I've lived in urban areas with predominant minority populations and rural areas with predominant white ones and the issue with police always leads back to the poorer areas no matter what racial makeup.

Also protesting is a major pillar of our country, it what we built the foundation on, Protest and standing up to injustices. But these so-called patriots don't want people protesting jobs or country or any form of authority at all anymore. Which goes directly against what we should be doing, if there's a major problem we should bring light to it and try to fix it, not bury it and criticize the people who bring it up.