Colin Kaepernick's absence should haunt Roger Goodell and the NFL

[Heartstrings]

“We want our fantasy football and we want our fantasy, period. We need the fun-and-games escape from all of America's problems. And our blessed medicine, our respite from months of sea-to-shining-sea sickness, arrives this weekend in an avalanche of wonderful football, God bless America.

But as our country's history records the victims and the complicit in real time, in a way that can't be whitewashed like the school textbooks we've always given our children, it should be forever recorded and remembered that it was a United States Army Green Beret who first suggested to Colin Kaepernick that kneeling was the most respectful way to request that police stop being so brutal to Black people -- a long time before protesters would take to the streets, a lot less quietly and a lot less politely.“

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29860915

[TwilightZone]

1. It's always annoyed the hell out of me that Boyer's part in this is always ignored.

Of course, the ignorance is intentional.