if you can make it about the flag, you can make it about things that you re generally supposed to agree with, then, you know, it becomes something different. yeah. and a lot of people unfortunately because it s low information media, whatever, they are buying into it. houston texans owner rob mcnair offered the latest carefully worded mia culpa. after his warning to fellow nfl owners against, quote, inmates running the prison. although collin kaepernick is yet to be signed by any nfl team, reports of police brutality remain intact, if anything, it s grown. this week s gq magazine named kaepernick citizen of the year. if you re more enraged about a quiet, peaceful protest during a segment of an nfl game that most people don t even watch, if you re more upset about that than you are about police brutality and americans getting killed by police officers, then you are part of the problem. i look at what colin kaepernick did and the movement he has
whether or not we want to call them white supremacists is, you know, irrelevant really. i think it s about the fact that they are doing the work, and this is part of the work. it s about delegitimizing protests of what is going on in this country and so, you know, if you can make it about the flag, you can make it about things that you re generally supposed to agree with, then, you know, it becomes something different. yeah. and a lot of people unfortunately because it s low information media, whatever, they are buying into it. houston texans owner rob mcnair offered the latest carefully worded mia culpa. colin kaepernick is yet to be signed by any team, if anything, it s grown. this week s gq magazine named kaepernick citizen of the year. if you re more enraged about a quiet, peaceful protest during an nfl game during a segment of
regret i used that expression. i apologize to anybody who was offended by it. joining me is william ronan from espn s the undefeated. if you were offended. like you talk about your mother, if you were offended by that. joy, just as we are trying to get our arms around houston. we are trying to cheer for houston, the city of houston, you ve got a player we ll get to next, a player from cuba talking making fun of a japanese player with japanese roots calling him china man and then you have an owner saying his industry is a prison. as hard as we are trying to really pull for houston, you know yeah. they have a nice young quarterback deshaun watson. then if you re a houston fan, this guy gurriel, he probably just lost you the world series. he got a standing ovation when he reemerged in the stadium.
said. hence, the prison analogy is true. to the extent we re in this prison. okay, are you really going to lose that paycheck? are you really going to walk over this? then they kind of cooler heads, well, you know, let s go back into our cells and come back into our cells. i think that s one of the important points because you have a lot of people saying why don t the marque players just quit? they re one generation out of no money. talking about players making a difference in their families. this is all shifted. we focus a lot on the players. the moral imperative comes to those of us watching this stuff. it s one thing to be a player. now what do you as a fan, we ve already seen an owner refer to this thing as a prison industry. we ve heard jerry jones say you boys better play or else i m he going to fire at what point do the fans remember, we ve been talking about concussions and that kind of stuff. yeah. none of that stuff raised as much ire as this silent protest.