Colin Kaepernick wanted $20 million to play in AAF, report says

No, he could be a superstar in the AAF and it still would not mean collusion.

Collusion is where all the NFL owners get together and say:

Owner 1: I'm not going to sign him. None of y'all sign him either, ok?

All the rest of the Owners: Ok cool, none of us will hire him.

See? That's collusion. That is NOT what's happening now with Kap. What's happening now is this:

Owner 1: Damn Kap sure does turn the fans off and bring bad publicity.

Owner 2: Yeah I feel the same way.

Owner 3: Yeah I need my attendance up. I can't afford someone who will bring so much negativity to my team.

So....the fact that no team owners want to hire him is not collusion. No team owners want to hire Ray Rice nor Ted Bundy nor Jeffery Dahmer either. It's not a collusion decision. It's that none of the teams think Kap is worth the risk. But they didn't COLLUDE to come to that decision. They all individually think hiring him is bad for business.

So Nike hit a home run, so what? Him being a spokesman for Nike is not the same as being a distraction on the field AND in the locker room of a team sport. At Nike he's an individual spokesperson. On a NFL team he would be divisive. Not because his cause isn't worthy. But it's because he made himself more important than the TEAM.

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