March 03, 2017

Kaepernick news, pt. 2


Jack Kemp

"Former San Fransisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick created quite the controversy last year by refusing to stand for the National Anthem before football games. Now that he's a free agent in need of a gig, he'll be standing for the 2017 season according to ESPN:

Sure he'll stand. He's got no paycheck and is desperately trying to get a job.

The trouble is, those pick up games in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park with ex-high school players don't usually have any one singing the National Anthem before they start on a Saturday afternoon.

And he may indeed eventually stand for the National Anthem....But it will be "O Canada."

You know, speaking of Kaepernick soon possibly having to stand for "O Canada," when I was in my teens and twenties, I attended National Hockey League games in New York City. Before the game, they played the Canadian National Anthem along with The Star Spangled Banner. Just about everyone in the arena stood, out of respect, for the national anthem of a country that still was and is loyal to the British Crown. In fact, since "O Canada" wasn't officially made the National Anthem until 1967, as best I recall, I may have well have stood for none less than the music of "God Save the Queen" or a similar alternative Canadian anthem. I certainly do not share the political allegences of the Canadians. But all us snarky New Yorkers stood out of respect for the other country which supplied two teams to the League, the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs, and whose citizens were the vast majority of the players on all of its teams. Perhaps Kaepernick should go to a home game of the nearby NHL San Jose (California) Sharks and practice standing for two national anthems. He might begin to learn something. Of course, after "leading" the 49ers to a two wins and fourteen losses season and being cut from the team, he may have begun to learn something already.

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