Muslim NFL players say they're confused after thousands of dollars in fines: 'I need answers'



Arizona Cardinals defensive back Kei'Trel Clark became the second Muslim player to receive a fine from the NFL in the past week or so.

Following a letter from the league, the 25-year-old is searching for answers, but he probably doesn't have to look too hard.

'I got to report to God at the end of my days on the day of judgement!'

Clark posted the NFL's correspondence on his Instagram page, telling him he was "in violation of the NFL Uniform and Equipment Rules."

"Specifically, you displayed a personal message on your eye black," the letter continued, per the Instagram story cited by the Daily Mail.

Clark was spotted on the field on September 13 against the Los Angeles Chargers wearing the message "Glory Be 2 God ..." with a peace sign in the middle.

This message appears to directly violate Rule 5, Section 4, Article 8 of the NFL rulebook, which states, "Players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages" during game day when the player is visible to the stadium or television audience.

As a result, Clark was fined $6,651.

Clark shared a screenshot of the letter with a picture of himself, writing, "I need answers. 6.6k for Giving God the Glory."

He later added, "I got to report to God at the end of my days on the day of judgement! I'll always give God the Glory and out loud. All good."

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At the same time, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was fined following a loss to the Buffalo Bills for having the name "Hind Rajab" written on his eye black during the game on September 13, per Fox News.

Hind Rajab is the name of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was allegedly shot and killed in her family's car by Israeli forces in 2024 during the Israel-Palestine war.

For that, Al-Shaair received an $11,492 fine.

On Sunday, Al-Shaair was spotted during warm-ups wearing a different message on his eye black: "Wafaa Akila." A translation through Arabic123.com says Wafaa means "completeness, fulfillment, and loyalty," while Akila means "a woman who is thoughtful and articulate in expressing her views and opinions on important matters."

Any fines for that message could be announced later this week.

Al-Shaair was also fined $11,593 in January for wearing "Stop the Genocide" on his eye black during a playoff game. He told reporters at the time he knew he was in violation of the rules.

"I knew that that was a fine. I understood what I was doing," he said before expressing some confusion.

"But I was told that if I wore that in the game I would be pulled out the game, so I think that was probably the part I was confused about."

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Clark did not appear to be fined for wearing eye black in September 2025 that read, "Inshallah ...," one of his many public expressions of his Muslim faith.

In a 2025 Instagram post he wrote, "I put my heart into this $h!t, it’s always been bigger then me. Only Allah Knows."

As well, the front of his Instagram page contains Arabic writing that, when translated by Google, reads, "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful."

It also features links to photos of Quranic passages.

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The NFL says it could expand with multiple teams — and you won't like where they're going



The NFL has already expanded to broadcasting on paid services, and when it expands the league, games might be physically out of reach for fans too.

Prior to the Thursday night game between the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions on Amazon Prime, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell revealed that the league's global reach could expand into time zones American fans won't be happy about.

'We're looking at how we continue to grow our media exposure globally.'

Is it the return of NFL Europe? Not exactly, but Goodell said the other side of the ocean is the most likely target for any league expansion that may happen.

"I think if we continue to grow, continue to get the kind of reaction, I do think a franchise will be international at some point in time," Goodell stated, per Fox News.

"I think Europe is the most likely [place], for a lot of reasons. One, the length of time we've been playing there. But also, the scheduling is going to be a lot easier."

The NFL's European league existed in different forms from 1991 until 2007 with teams in countries like Germany and Spain.

Now the NFL is playing almost 10 games this season on foreign soil, including a game last week in Melbourne, Australia. However, Goodell did reveal that Australia is likely too far.

"Australia might create a few complications for us," the commissioner admitted.

Furthermore, adding just one team to the 32-franchise league would likely throw things off — leagues don't typically like to have odd-numbered teams for ease of conferences or games played — and Goodell said he believed more than one expansion team is possible.

"I also believe we could have more than one team, which I think, ultimately, the support is there," Goodell said, according to Fox News. "Two more teams."

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In an interview with CNBC, Goodell said, however, 34 teams is "not first on our list," and the league hasn't "really spent any time studying it."

Do players like it?

During that discussion, Goodell was asked if he thought players enjoyed participating in international games, to which he claimed they do take pride in carrying "the mantle" for the league and becoming ambassadors for the sport.

"[They're] helping to expand the game on a global basis," Goodell said, adding that players are expanding their own brands at the same time. "I think they see the opportunity."

Former NFL coach and Super Bowl winner Jon Gruden recently rained on the expansion parade, telling a fan that he thinks the game should be grown in America first.

In fact, Gruden yelled at the fan who was supportive of international play, saying, "If you want to grow the game, grow it in the United States. We got a lot of kids that aren't playing football. So let's play games where we need to grow the game in our country. And let's start and end with that."

In a response that was as hilarious as it was passionate, Gruden mocked the idea that it was more difficult to travel and play games across the United States generations ago than it is to play internationally today.

"I didn't see Red Grange playing in Australia. And I never saw Ray Nitschke play in London! OK?! So take that and stick that in your pipe," Gruden heckled.

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In terms of when an expansion might happen, Goodell's contract ends in 2030, so it is conceivable he would want to see the global expansion by that time.

He told CNBC that it is "very possible" to have an international team "someday," but he purposely did not put a timeframe on it.

"We're looking at how we grow the number of games. We're looking at how we continue to grow our media exposure globally," he said.

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Sophie Cunningham defends Sydney Sweeney — but admits she 'morally' has a problem



Sophie Cunningham is comfortable saying she doesn't know Sydney Sweeney, but she does understand her.

Sweeney has faced backlash for a recent "gambling" ad, enduring seemingly unending criticism from female athletes across the globe, but Cunningham has one simple question: "Why are girls mad?"

'It's just so unauthentic.'

Cunningham said her phone blew up with people looking for her take on Sweeney's recent ad for Novig that had the actress posing nude, save for conveniently placed sports equipment covering her private areas.

The ad was immediately characterized as a black eye for women in sports by female athletes who said it was not how they want to be portrayed. Although many athletes were put on blast as hypocrites after being reminded of their own questionable (and self-promoted) content, Cunningham seemingly saw both sides of the matter.

On "No Hesitation with Sophie Cunningham & Drew Hanlen" earlier this week, the WNBA star started with the hilarious question: Does Sweeney "even gamble on sports?"

"It's just so unauthentic," Cunningham continued. "You know what I mean? Like, am I surprised of how she represented the brand? No."

The basketball player then started a back-and-forth of insult followed by praise.

"That's what she's made her whole career off is. And hey, don't get me wrong, I like her. Everyone knows she is beautiful. She is hot. She clearly has my chest," Cunningham joked.

Then the 30-year-old offered Sweeney "props" but admitted she did not like the ad.

"I think it's like, I mean, like, what? Like, what are we doing? But again, I'm not surprised."

Cunningham wasn't done though, and she put the complaining athletes into her crosshairs, asking them what it is they are getting so upset about:

"But why are girls mad?"

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"That is literally what she does," Cunningham went on. "Why is anyone mad?"

Then things went back the other way for a moment, with the baller saying, "Again, do I agree with it? Uh, morally, I think it's kind of weird, but, like, to each their own. Go do your thing, sis."

But then Cunningham pushed back in the other direction again and praised women for standing up for themselves and being proud of their tall bodies, "broad shoulders," and thighs that touch.

While the athlete explained that she certainly understands how Sweeney's ad could "deflate women" and overshadow their accomplishments, she finally settled on her previously discussed idea that even despite her moral disagreements with it, "Let that girl go do her thing."

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Co-host Hanlen took on more of a believe-all-women mentality, approaching the topic as being not "black and white," and thus impossible to truly take sides.

"They knew that they were going to spike up a lot of traffic from women being disappointed with the ad and putting her down," Hanlen said about Novig.

Hanlen's feminist approach concluded with him saying that criticisms should be replaced by "celebrating women in sport" and giving confidence to "student athletes that don't feel like they fit in."

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Charles Barkley defends WNBA, but says 'race' and 'sexuality' are behind Sophie Cunningham clashes



Charles Barkley says that "there's something going on with those women" in the WNBA.

The Hall of Fame player believes he has the answer as to why there is so much tension built up between the league's players, and race is definitely a factor.

'She said, "No, I'm protecting girls. No, no transvestites in the [W]NBA."'

Barkley compared conflicts in today's WNBA with the rivalry between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in the 1980s, but he said that while some may have spotted "racial undertones" when those two went head-to-head, "there was always respect."

The same can't be said for WNBA players like DiJonai Carrington, Barkley said.

Barkley called it "stupid on her part" when Carrington made an X post that simply said, "White privilege," after a hard foul on WNBA star Sophie Cunningham got her penalized.

"That was a 100% mistake. It was a dirty play. Period," the former Phoenix Suns forward stated.

When it comes to Cunningham and her Indiana Fever teammate, perennial star Caitlin Clark, Barkley said plainly that the other WNBA players simply have a problem with them.

"Those girls do not like Caitlin Clark or Sophie Cunningham," Barkley told Michael Smerconish in an overlooked interview from late August.

"Whether it's race, sexuality, or whatever, there's something going on there. Because most of the time when you see something, it has something to do with Caitlin or Sophie. I think those other women in the WNBA don't like them," the 63-year-old went on.

"I think it has something to do with sexuality, race, and jealousy," he concluded.

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When probed, Barkley was consistent in that he felt all three attributes contributed to a strong disdain for Cunningham and Clark, but he said he didn't know how to "break up the percentages" between the issues.

"There's something going on with those women. Period. ... They're either jealous [or it's] sexuality or race."

While at times Smerconish tried to lead Barkley away from the apparent harsh truths, the former player refused to pull any punches with the WNBA, which he admitted to being a fan of.

Transgender controversy

Barkley's respect for the league did not stop him from vehemently stating that he thinks it should be for women only. Even after he said that he respects the gay and transgender communities, Barkley stated that no man, regardless of how much surgery he has, should be welcomed into the league.

Barkley also placed blame on the WNBA itself for not immediately shutting down the notion that a transgender athlete — a male — could play against the female ballers.

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"Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women," Barkley said.

"I can't believe people got mad at [Cunningham] for telling the truth. She said, 'No, I'm protecting girls. No, no transvestites in the [W]NBA.'"

The timing of Barkley's interview allowed for several other of his predictions to marinate, particularly his claim that the negative press has not garnered positive results for the WNBA:

"They're not having a great year," he stated.

In that vein, Barkley further suggested that no one would be talking about the WNBA when the NFL season starts, which is now heading into its second week.

Barkley piled onto that claim by asking, "When's the last time you heard something positive about the WNBA? I can't even remember."

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Travis Kelce duped by Indian illegal immigrant in massive Ponzi scheme



Bud Light, Pfizer, and ... Philip Morris Pakistan?

NFL tight end Travis Kelce has been involved with all three of these companies, but only the last one was part of a massive fraud scheme conducted by an illegal immigrant.

'An extravagant lifestyle that included travel on private jets.'

Siddharth Jawahar, 38, was sentenced by a U.S. district judge after he was found to have defrauded dozens in a Ponzi scheme through his Texas-based investment company called Swiftarc Capital LLC.

Jawahar was investing client funds, including Kelce's, into a single company called Philip Morris Pakistan.

The Department of Justice said that 99% of client funds were consolidated into that company, totaling more than $35 million.

When the value of the company declined, the illegal alien did not tell investors but instead told them they were making profits. Jawahar also led his clients to believe he was investing their money in other companies that he never actually invested in.

From July 2016 to December 2023, Jawahar took the reported $35 million through Swiftarc but invested only around $10 million, the DOJ noted.

Jawahar would use money from new investors to repay old ones, while funding what was described as "an extravagant lifestyle that included travel on private jets, stays at luxury hotels, [and] luxury apartment[s] in Austin and New York City."

He also took out memberships at multiple private clubs across the United States, went on spending sprees at clothing stores, and had expensive outings at fancy restaurants.

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U.S. District Judge Zachary Bluestone sentenced Jawahar on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud in January.

He was ordered to pay $31.35 million in restitution and received an 11-year federal prison sentence.

Judge Bluestone cited the "enormous" losses, the DOJ explained, as well as the duration of the fraud scheme. The judge also referred to one of the victims, who said Jawahar "weaponized" the trust of his investors, and said that Jawahar's failure to repay victims was a major factor in the case.

The amount Kelce lost through the investments is unknown, but a spokesperson from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri revealed to the Associated Press that there were 64 victims in total of the scheme.

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According to the Associated Press, Jawahar is an illegal immigrant from India who has been living in the United States since 2005.

The outlet also reported that prosecutors said Jawahar tried to coach a victim into giving the FBI a favorable statement following his indictment and that he lied about his immigration status.

Jawahar was also accused of trying to get one of his relatives to remotely wipe his iPhone to hide evidence.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Kelce did not respond to Blaze News' requests for comments.

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Coach Jon Gruden screams at fan in must-see pro-America rant over NFL's international schedule



Former NFL coach Jon Gruden is not happy about how many international games the NFL is playing, and he isn't afraid to let everyone know.

Gruden was seemingly calm and collected recently, holding it together without bursting into one of his trademark tirades. That was until a fan started pushing him to accept the overseas games.

'I never saw Ray Nitschke play in London!'

The Super Bowl winner went off during "The Gruden Family Football Show" on Thursday when a fan brought up the NFL's international schedule, which this season has teams traveling to London; Paris; Madrid; Mexico City; Melbourne, Australia; Munich, Germany; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

"I want a piece of you, Gruden," the fan began, immediately piquing the coach's interest.

"I listen to you bitch and moan about international games. Oh, how it 'disrupts routine.' Gruden, the game was built on sacrifice," the comments continued.

The fan dragged Gruden, telling him how he has benefited from the sacrifices of former players and coaches who traveled across the United States to play grueling games on minimal rest.

"You need to embrace growing the sport globally. You understand that?" the fan added.

Gruden wasn't having any of the fan's globalist approach, though.

"Get him off!" Gruden yelled, cutting the remarks short. "I understand that completely. I mean, we're not going overseas to play home games."

Unable to restrain himself any longer, Gruden started screaming that while some of the NFL's most historic players traveled a lot, they didn't play in different countries.

"I didn't see Red Grange playing in Australia. And I never saw Ray Nitschke play in London! OK?! So take that and stick that in your pipe," Gruden exclaimed.

"If you want to grow the game, grow it in the United States. We got a lot of kids that aren't playing football. So let's play games where we need to grow the game in our country. And let's start and end with that," he screamed comically.

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Further endorsing an America-only schedule, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach said it wasn't fair to have players traveling for 12+ hours before a game.

"I don't want to be on a 16-hour flight, seven different time zones to play one of my home games. Sorry," he told his co-hosts.

2026 will feature the most international regular-season games the NFL has ever seen, with nine total.

2025 had already seen an increase to seven after the league had previously maxed out at five, the number played the previous three years, as well as in 2017 and 2019.

While Australia, Brazil, and France will see their first official NFL games this season, countries like the U.K., Mexico, and Canada have all hosted multiple games dating back more than a decade.

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The NFL used to promote itself internationally through the league NFL Europe, which consisted of American football teams based in European countries like the U.K. and Germany. The league existed in different forms from 1991 until 2007.

However, the first international regular-season game for NFL teams was in Mexico City in 2005, when the Arizona Cardinals hosted the San Francisco 49ers.

The league's pursuit of global growth has seemingly been lucrative, though, as the NFL boasted $450 million in international revenue in 2023.

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Jason Whitlock: The Lindsay Clancy jury chose her over the children



The mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case has kept the debate over her guilt as divisive as ever, with plenty of Americans siding with the 11 jurors who wanted her found not guilty by reason of insanity.

But unlike those 11 jurors, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes that the lone juror who defied the others was the only one pursuing real justice — especially after seeing interviews of the women who sided with the defense.

“Not sure if rogue is the right word ... but every one of us in the hours of our frustration would get up and walk the room because you just couldn’t sit anymore,” one female juror told NBC News, speaking about the male juror who refused to fall in line.

“He would not interact with us and try to understand. We read to him on numerous occasions the definition of reasonable doubt from Judge Sullivan’s instruction. He actually said one day in the end, ‘Well, why don’t we have the judge come in and read it again?’ And we were like, ‘No, we have it in front of us. We don’t need that,’” she continued.


“And we would highlight it and you know, so and so, this is the definition of reasonable doubt. But he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children,” she added.

“You just heard it,” Whitlock says. “Not a host, not a pundit, not a podcaster, a juror.”

He calls the “rogue” juror a “mighty good man.”

“That was not a flaw in the holdout. That was the assignment,” he says.

“The fight in that room was never ‘did she do it?’ The fight was whether a room full of adults would let ‘she snapped’ and ‘she loved them’ erase what she did. Nine women, three men, a majority that wanted a hall pass,” he continues.

“One man who would not sign it. And when the case deadlocked, the cameras did not hunt the truth. They hunted him. ‘Arrogant, wouldn’t interact, wouldn’t budge,’” he mocks, “‘Hardest time getting off the fact that she viciously killed her children.’”

“Of course he did. That fact is the case. Empathy can be holy. Empathy can also be toxic. In that jury room, it went toxic,” he says.

“The loudest empathy in those interviews did not land on three dead kids. It landed on the woman who killed them,” he adds, before playing a clip of a different juror.

“We weren’t trying to figure out if she murdered the children. She did, and she’s admitting that. We’re trying to figure out did she know right from wrong at that time? And with everybody saying she loved her children so much and everything proved she loved her children from her journals to her mother-in-law,” the female juror said.

“Everything proved that she loved her children, so she had to have snapped,” she added.

“Hey, lady, love is not a defense to strangulation. A mother’s tears do not untie a ligature. ‘She snapped’ is not a verdict. It is a slogan. And when a juror treats the bodies as the obstacle to her preferred ending, she has already chosen a side, and it is not the children’s,” Whitlock says.

“They mocked the holdout for staging with the bodies. They should have thanked him. He was the only adult in the room who refused to negotiate with a corpse count,” he adds.

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'Let the truth come out': UFC legend Georges St-Pierre backs vaccine-injury inquiry



Devastating testimony regarding alleged vaccine side effects is under way, and the stories are heartbreaking.

Years after COVID-19 vaccines were pushed out to the public, many of those who claim it caused adverse events are still battling to be recognized, and now they're getting a boost of support.

'When everybody go Right, I’m not afraid to go Left when I think it’s better.'

The Allison Inquiry this week includes more than 1,400 Canadians who are willing to testify about being injured by a COVID-19 vaccine in a country that almost unanimously took the jab.

As the inquiry reaches the federal government, former UFC middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre said in a video posted Monday he wanted to share his support for the inquiry, which he said is giving Canadians who were "hurt by the COVID-19 vaccine" a chance to "explain themselves publicly" and to "let the truth come out."

The fighter stated that he hoped that such a situation would "never happen again" and for "people to have [the] freedom to do what they want to do with their body."

The inquiry has selected 50 claimants to testify, with many of the stories heard being just as shocking as they are sad.

Stéphanie Giguère claimed she was told her vaccine side-effect symptoms were "all in her head" before being put through a mental health evaluation.

Patricia Leidl testified that she collapsed after her second dose and now has neurological problems including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.

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Other testimonies have included Dr. Crystal Luchkiw, who claimed that her brother suffered cardiac side effects following vaccination and "ultimately died."

As well, Carole Avoine claimed she developed Bell’s palsy after vaccination.

Canadians overwhelmingly supported receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. By February 2022, 96% of the population age 12 and over had at least one dose. In 2023, more than 80% of Canadians had two doses.

For comparison, about three-quarters of Americans received at least one dose by September 2021, with the rate declining for a second dose to 61%.

According to the government of Canada's official vaccine information website, more than 4,200 "serious" adverse events were reported after vaccination in 2021, with another 43,000+ "non-serious reports" the same year.

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St-Pierre is not shy about touching on controversial topics, whether it be brain injuries suffered by UFC fighters or alien interactions.

Regarding the latter, the Quebec native has spoken at length about the possibility of him being abducted by aliens, including incidents where he felt like he has lost time.

Critics claimed these explanations may be evidence of brain trauma suffered from fighting.

Politically, St-Pierre said early in 2026 that he isn't afraid to go "left" if everyone else is going "right."

"When everybody go Right, I’m not afraid to go Left when I think it’s better," he wrote on X.

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Jason Whitlock: Lindsay Clancy has become the OJ Simpson of angry housewives



The debate surrounding Lindsay Clancy has become about far more than one criminal case. While prosecutors argue that Clancy intentionally killed her three children, many supporters have rallied around the Massachusetts mother as a victim of mental illness, postpartum struggles, and impossible expectations placed on women.

While the supportive response from such a large number of women has confused Americans, Dre Baldwin believes he has the answer as to why it’s happening.

“Lindsay Clancy is to overwhelmed mothers what O.J. Simpson was to the angry black person in 1995,” Baldwin tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on "Fearless."

“People didn’t identify with O.J. Simpson because they thought O.J. didn’t kill Nicole and Ron Goldman,” he explains. “They identified with O.J. Simpson because they were angry black people who felt like America as an institution and the police as an institution had been terrorizing black people.”


Like Clancy has become a symbol for postpartum mothers, “O.J. was a symbol for some get-back for black Americans.”

“That’s why people celebrated when he got found not guilty,” Baldwin says.

“It’s the same thing that a lot of women, mothers who see themselves as overwhelmed housewives who are doing too much, and this is not the role that was supposed to be for them,” he continues. “And they just feel themselves being overwhelmed through all the challenges of motherhood and being a wife and taking care of a home.”

While Baldwin doesn’t believe these moms would ever actually murder someone, let alone their children, he does believe that Clancy is being propped up as a “symbol of ‘somebody is finally seeing this.’”

“And if it means a woman beating a murder charge, then so be it. The same way that people looked at people celebrating O.J. with incredulity back then, 30 years ago, is the same way that many people are looking at this Lindsay Clancy case and her supporters today,” he adds.

Whitlock couldn’t agree more, commenting, “That’s a brilliant take.”

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10 years later, we're still talking about Colin Kaepernick — because he conquered the NFL



Ten years after Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest ignited one of the biggest cultural battles in sports history, the former NFL quarterback says he still believes the league has blackballed him.

But according to BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock, that claim misses the bigger story.

“Ten years later, Colin Kaepernick just told the country he won,” Whitlock says.

“He sat with NBC News and said he no longer watches the NFL because the league is actively blackballing him and the men who knelt with him. He watches college football now. That is not a quarterback begging for a clipboard; that is a man who knows the institution already belongs to him,” he explains.

“A three-minute kneel during the national anthem has been stretched into game-long signs in every NFL stadium. ‘End racism,’ ‘stop hate,’” he continues, noting that it’s not going away any time soon.


“For the 2026 season, the seventh straight year of the stencil, the league will paint those slogans in the grass and on the helmets again. Marxist liturgy as field decoration. [Kaepernick] never needed another snap. He needed the building to preach after he left the huddle,” he says.

And the “diversity score cards" within the league — like the male cheerleaders who went viral not too long ago — still “sit in the front office as if they were defensive schemes.”

“The NFL did not stumble into this; it was discipled into it. [Kaepernick] watches college football and accuses the NFL of blackballing him,” Whitlock says.

“He can afford the sneer. He is one of America’s greatest Trojan horses. He never recaptured the quarterback job. He captured the institution,” he continues. “The NFL thought it was containing a protest. It was being converted by one.”

“What began as a sideline gesture now owns the grass, the hiring, and the moral vocabulary of Sunday. The loudest league in the country is still kneeling. The quietest quarterback already cashed the cultural check,” he adds.

And while Kaepernick is often treated as a “failed activist,” that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

“Ten years later, we are still talking about Colin Kaepernick. … That is a cultural victory that never required a comeback, a tryout, or another down. He sacrificed a fading quarterback career and got a league to carry his flag,” Whitlock says.

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