Roger Goodell floats insincere take on Colin Kaepernick’s workout: ‘An incredible opportunity’
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has studied the film, the way all obedient lace-heads do, and he knows exactly what happened with Colin Kaepernick and his terrible, horrible, no good, very botched workout.
Kaepernick, Goodell said, “chose not to take” an “incredible opportunity.”
If you weren’t around in the 1970s, more’s the pity. Late night television featured waves of smarmy, insincere used car salesman wearing sport coats made from old casino carpets. Those guys were always promising incredible opportunities, too.
“I haven’t thought about this in a few weeks,” Goodell said according to Pro Football Talk. “This was, as I’ve said to you before, about creating an opportunity. Which Colin’s representatives came out in early October and we created that opportunity. It was a unique opportunity, incredible opportunity, and he chose not to take it. I understand that. And, you know, we’ve moved on.”
Yeah, the same way running backs give defenders the okey-doke by appearing to show their leg, then taking it away.
The Nov. 16 workout at the Atlanta Falcons’ training facility never happened. Confronted with terms he would not abide, Kaepernick then drove an hour to a high school field. The 49ers were one of seven teams to have a representative at that workout, according to PFW. Though one of the receivers who caught passes from Kaepernick was offered a contract by Washington, Kaepernick received no interest. In the three years-plus since he opted out of his 49ers contract he has had no offers from NFL teams.
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