Good grief. Kaepernick hired himself a high-profile lawyer and is now targeting the cellphone records of several owners to prove that they are colluding against him to get him out of the NFL:
ESPN – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Houston Texans owner Bob McNair, among others, will be deposed and asked to turn over all cellphone records and emails in relation to the Colin Kaepernick collusion case against the NFL, a league source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Other owners as well as team and league officials also will be deposed in relation to the case, the source said. ABC News reports that other owners to be deposed include the Seattle Seahawks’ Paul Allen and the San Francisco 49ers’ Jed York.
ABC News reports that the owners were selected for depositions based on their public statements about either Kaepernick or sideline protests during the national anthem.
Kaepernick’s attorney, Mark Geragos, said in October that the free-agent quarterback had filed a grievance under the collective bargaining agreement alleging collusion against signing him to an NFL contract.
The filing, which demands an arbitration hearing on the matter, says the NFL and its owners “have colluded to deprive Mr. Kaepernick of employment rights in retaliation for Mr. Kaepernick’s leadership and advocacy for equality and social justice and his bringing awareness to peculiar institutions still undermining racial equality in the United States.”
After filing the grievance, Kaepernick tweeted that he did so “only after pursuing every possible avenue with all NFL teams and their executives.”
Kaepernick is not going through the NFL Players Association but instead hired Geragos, who has represented several high-profile clients, including Michael Jackson, former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield and musician Chris Brown.
Kaepernick is like the angry ex-girlfriend who just wants revenge. But he’s the one who created the controversy that has turned teams off to him, especially given the fact that he’s not even that good. It’s his fault, yet he refuses to take the blame for it. So now he’s trying to owners through the mud in order to get his revenge.
Kaepernick is clearly the worst thing that’s happened to the NFL in a long time. He’s like a leg rash that just won’t go away.