Nike Ad Campaign

[NightDragon83]

So the tag line for the Nike advertising campaign is "Believe in something, even it means sacrificing everything."

Uh huh, color me unimpressed.  Kapernick made millions in the NFL during his tenure as a starting QB, and now he's making millions as a spokesperson for a multi-billion dollar company that manufactures shoes and clothing in 3rd world sweatshops.  The only thing he "sacrificed" was a chance to be a backup making the veteran minimum on some dumpster fire of a team over the past couple of seasons, because no serious team with Super Bowl aspirations will come within 100 yards of him.

Compare that to another former NFL QB who was famous for taking knees... Tim Tebow.  Guy never got anywhere near the big payday Kap got despite having success his first year as a starter and taking a 1-4 team to the playoffs, and after his football career ended he chose to pursue his love of baseball, where he's been putting in work in the minors with prospects almost half his age.  The guy is all class and never said a bad word about anyone, yet the same ppl who praise Kap for being "brave" and exercising his right to protest and speak out are the same ones who trashed Tebow for "shoving his religion in everyone's face" whenever he took a knee.

The fact of the matter is Kap bet that a team would sign him to a big contract based on past performance after he was released from the 49ers, and after it didn't work out that way he decided it would be better to play the victim and become a social justice activist instead if being paid a lot less than he was making to be a backup QB.  And if he was really serious about still being in the NFL, he could've played a season in the Canadian Football League (they'll take anybody, just ask Johnny Manziel) and proved to NFL owners and his critics that he still had plenty left.  Guess he'd rather continue taking a big dump on the flag than getting dumped from a team again.