Kaepernick put on a football throwing exhibition last weekend styled as a demonstration for prospective employers. It's unknown whether he will get a job offer from that. But that's hardly the point. He already has a job -- a shoe salesman -- and he's doing quite well.
Check out this headline: Nike's value is up $26.2B since Colin Kaepernick endorsement. Now it’s close to unveiling his shoe.
So if a normal person has a job as lucrative as Kaepernick's job with Nike, would he really want to play football on a team again? He would not only be risking his health but if he doesn't perform well, he'll be the butt of countless jokes and unfunny ridicule. And his value as a shoe salesman would likely suffer.
His latest stunt put him in the headlines again, and for him, publicity whether good or bad, is good for business.
Is Kaepernick or his advisers that smart? Or is he just lucky? There seems to be a shortage of examples of strategic brilliance on the field.
Meanwhile, he didn't do a very good job of articulating the cause that sparked his crusade back when he started getting all the attention. And now it's difficult to remember just what it was. Oh well, it doesn't really matter now anyway.
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5:57 AM 11/22/2019
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