Will the Weary Kaepernick Ever Leave? – The American Spectator | US News & PoliticsThe American Spectator

SThe harbor pages used to be healthy alternatives to the insanity of the news pages. Not anymore. Regular Americans have only just begun to wrap their heads around the fact that two men, or at least non-women, were fighting for the gold medal in women’s boxing at the most woke Olympics in history, when we are horrified to see the odious Colin Kaepernick force his way back into the public conversation.

He keeps pushing the idea that he has a future as an NFL quarterback. If current Colin Kaepernick is NFL quarterback material, I’m the next Archbishop of Canterbury.

Before we go any further, let’s take a moment to consider IOC president Thomas Bach’s declaration that chromosomes no longer determine gender. Who would have thought? Bach must have gotten his MD from Woke U.

This crazy announcement should revoke the gold in the freestyle left-wing bloviation competition. Chromosomes — no matter what the trans-obsessed say — and the resulting hormones and muscle mass separate the boys from the girls. In a combat sport like boxing, if biology isn’t destiny, it’s a hell of a lot more important than whatever comes in second.

And you may wonder what those original Greek Olympians, who competed in various sports naked with hairy chests, think of this horror, and of such new Olympic “sports” as breakdancing and skateboarding. What’s next? Crochet? But I digress… Back to Colin.

This week, a new Alice in Wonderland element was added to the sad Kaepernick saga when we learned (get caught up) that Jim Harbaugh, the new head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, has offered Colin a spot on his coaching staff.

I am not making this up and I am not quoting from The Babylonian Bee. Funny, Harbaugh doesn’t look stupid. And I doubt he consulted with the Chargers owners before embarking on this foolish mission. Kaepernick on the payroll, on the field or on the sidelines, would certainly lead to ticket sales hell.

Harbaugh did not specify what Kaepernick’s coaching duties would be. Perhaps he could instruct Chargers players on various kneeling positions to assume during the anthem and tell them where to buy the best pig socks.

Harbaugh has won both a college championship and a Super Bowl. His Super Bowl victory came in 2013 with the San Francisco Forty-Niners, with Kaepernick as his quarterback. Perhaps he’s letting sentiment cloud his judgment. But most of the sports media tells us that Kaepernick insists he wants to play again.

Of course, Kaepernick does not deserve another chance as a player in the NFL. Not just because of his delusions about politics and his anti-American antics, although those are the main accusations and specifications against him and would be enough.

Even though the helmets weren’t leather when Colin took his last snap in the NFL, his career is quickly fading into the distant past. We’re talking serious ring rust here. Colin is 36, an awkward age for an NFL player. Not every QB can be Tom Brady. And Colin certainly wasn’t.

Kaepernick wants a scapegoat

But despite all the commotion and anger, I don’t believe for a second that Colin actually wants to play football again. He just wants the NFL as a scapegoat and an excuse for his racist tirades, and also as a way to stay in the public eye, ear, nose and throat.

I’m sure he understands that it’s far more lucrative and far less dangerous to promote the products of woke corporations than to get the hell kicked on the football field on Sunday. He’s been out of the game long enough to forget the freezing feeling of a 320-pound lineman with one big eye in the middle of his forehead, breathing like a landfill that’s coming at him with malicious intent.

Plus, it would now be quite a task for Colin to get an NFL helmet on his magnificent Afro, which has now grown larger than some of the nearest planets.

I am quite old now, but my health is good. So maybe I will live long enough to see Colin Kaepernick where he belongs, washed up like another tarry pebble on the beach of old and forgotten news.

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