Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Gutfeld: Kaepernick controversy continues" video.

  1. When Dad was in a good mood, and you tried to say something clever, he'd say "That's a good point! But if you wear a hat, nobody'll notice."
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  2. Why does it have to be "Black people don't understand....?" Some people - including some blacks, I'm sure, engage in sophistry on this topic.
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  3. His Castro T-Shirt will go over big in Florida.
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  4. College football is pretty exploitative. They don't pay the players diddly-squat, yet they use them to create spectacle and garner millions of dollars.
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  5. Makes me sick, when the NCAA goes after a kid who puts his body on the line every Saturday, because he made a few bucks selling a T-shirt with his name on it. The rules are bullshit and college players should get PAID.
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  6. For every person saying what you're saying - and I agree with you - there are two or three who will talk about playoff appearances and how close he came to winning it all. But to me, he was kind of the reason the '9ers didn't quite pull it off. I can see wanting higher ceiling and lower pay than Alex Smith, but in the end, Kaep's decision-making seemed to keep them from winning a championship with him. I keep coming back to that game against Seattle (NFC Championship?),, where Kaep - full of his own narrative - was going to throw to Crabtree on the critical play, no matter what, because that was the story he had in his head. Unfortunately, on the short field, Richard Sherman had Crabtree blanketed, but Kaep threw it to Crabs, regardless. He saw himself as legend, before he did anything, imagining how he'd tell the story "I told Michael he was getting the ball, and that's how it all happened, glory be to me."
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  7. Plenty of people think Kaep's really good. I think he's physically gifted, but I don't think he has good vision or good accuracy for an NFL QB. The dual run/pass threat is there, but he's not known for analyzing and dissecting a defense or making the pinpoint throw. I think the same narrative > reality is on full view in both his play on the field and his social justice activity. Cops killing blacks is a non-issue compared to blacks killing blacks, and it's the latter that a man with Kaep's platform could do some good against, by raising deeper questions and holding deeper conversations about what's going on in the culture. But it's hard to ask the deeper questions, and it's easy to score virtue points by taking his tack.
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  8. Quit trolling Kenny.
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  9. The bottom line is that a lot of parents just don't want their kids to play football, and young people, by and large, don't follow the sport as obsessively as SOME of us do (guilty!).
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  10. I think ending the War on Drugs and putting police back in the business of ONLY protecting persons and property would go a long way towards better relations with police. There's a culture of lawlessness that is fed by laws that a significant fraction of the population at odds with the police. Yeah, there are incidents of abuse by police. It's the nature of the position, and why you want to minimize any problems, starting by severely restricting their mandate. If a man wants to ruin his life with a needle in his arm, it's not the job of the police to incarcerate him. Take every nickel on drug-law enforcement and plow it into public health to minimize the harm, and help addicts kick the habit, with clinics funded by the taxes on the drugs! Turn a net negative into a net plus. There are a lot of the wrong incentives built into our system by policy-makers. And we know some things have to change. But BLM probably isn't getting us any closer to long-term, self-sustaining solutions. The next thing I'd attack is the absence of fathers in the lives of too many kids - especially boys. Too many boys, nowadays, don't know how to be a strong, restrained man, because they don't have a Dad around, who CAN kick everybody's ass, but DOESN'T, and doesn't impose his will by force.
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  11. The NFL hitched their wagon to the US military, long ago. They hold Air Force fly-overs, ceremonies honoring war heroes, and the Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force run a lot of recruiting ads. And the military, in turn, recruits a lot of soldiers into football fans. Lots of fan-atic football fans stationed overseas, and the NFL is a strong bond back to the States. But as long as it gave me a chance to spout off about how Democrats are wrecking our cities and setting police against people with intended or unintended consequences of their policies, then maybe Kaep deserves a pat on the back. I just think he's idealistic, but pretty shallow.
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  12. And when you're a narcissistic rebel without a cause, you hurt yourself.
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  13. I have the right to wear nothing but a diaper and walk the streets warning against alien invasion. But I'm pretty sure it wouldn't help me find a job.
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  14. Then again, maybe some farmer would spot me and give me a gig as a scarecrow.
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