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At least one person believes Kaepernick is idle in deference to the President

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell earned a fraction of his $44 million salary this week at a Super Bowl news conference and disinformation jamboree in Atlanta.

If you blinked, you missed it.

According to TMZ, Goodell was addressing reporters and a few NFL owners when he was asked about Colin Kaepernick’s enforced idleness. Kaepernick, the former 49ers quarterback who in 2016 founded the silent take-a-knee protest — which created consternation up to and including the highest office in the land — has attempted since to find an NFL team interested in his services. He hasn’t been on a roster since the end of the 2016 season.