No sooner had former 49ers safety Eric Reid found a taker for his services this season than he began to complain he was being targeted by the NFL’s drug testing gendarmes.
By Reid’s count he was tested seven times in 11 weeks. “That has to be statistically impossible,” he said. “I’m not a mathematician, but there’s no way that’s right.” (The NFL tests for banned drugs because it has never been able to otherwise explain ripped 275-pounders who run like gazelles.)
Reid’s contention is that the NFL has a vendetta against him because 1) he knelt during the national anthem before NFL games with Colin Kaepernick when both were with the 49ers, and 2) because he joined Kaepernick in a collusion grievance against the league, the former teammates feeling as if they were being blackballed.