Post by Roosevelt on Jun 26, 2020 12:42:19 GMT -5
Malcolm Jenkins Is Nonessential, Not Football
You’d have to think Sean Payton, Drew Brees and most Saints fans disagree with Malcolm Jenkins’ contention that football is nonessential.
If you remotely understand the role of football in American society, if you feign concern over the plight of black men, you should disagree with Jenkins, too. Stick with me.
Yes, football is nonessential for Malcolm Jenkins. He’s 32. He’s won a Super Bowl in New Orleans and Philadelphia already. And the golden parachute contract he finagled from the Saints is his last NFL payday. New Orleans is on the hook for a $9 million signing bonus and $1 million in salary this year, raising Jenkins’ career earnings to $70 million.
“We have to understand that football is a nonessential business,” Jenkins told a CNN audience Thursday. “And so we don’t need to do it. The risk has to be really eliminated before we — before I — would feel comfortable with going back.”
When the Eagles declined to pick up an option on Jenkins, the Saints signed the safety to a four-year $32 million contract in mid-March, returning him to the organization and city that drafted him in 2009.
So far, the return on New Orleans’ reinvestment has resulted in Jenkins using Twitter to publicly smear Brees’ character for saying he disagreed with players taking a knee during the national anthem and Jenkins inking a commentator deal with a political news network, CNN.
The 2020 season was projected to be Brees’ 20th and final NFL campaign, a last chance for Brees and Payton to win a second Super Bowl together and carve out a more substantial legacy.
So I’m sure Payton and Brees were displeased yesterday watching Jenkins categorize the upcoming NFL season as a low priority in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jenkins reminds me of the 30-year, union factory employee who spends his final years working the assembly line on in-plant retirement. They nap in the bathroom. Their friends clock them in after lunch. And sick days are usually spent at a bingo parlor, massage parlor or bowling alley.
In the case of an uber-rich NFL player, on-field retirement consists of photo shoots for their personal website, television interviews about the latest controversial police shooting and recording videos blasting white teammates for not venerating Colin Kaepernick as the modern-day Muhammad Ali.
Football is Jenkins’ side hustle, something he does for the massive paycheck and the brand-building opportunities.
This NFL season is going to be quite interesting. Many players have immersed themselves in the social-media narrative that the NFL is a plantation and that every righteous field negro must break the chains of their football oppressor.....read more
If you remotely understand the role of football in American society, if you feign concern over the plight of black men, you should disagree with Jenkins, too. Stick with me.
Yes, football is nonessential for Malcolm Jenkins. He’s 32. He’s won a Super Bowl in New Orleans and Philadelphia already. And the golden parachute contract he finagled from the Saints is his last NFL payday. New Orleans is on the hook for a $9 million signing bonus and $1 million in salary this year, raising Jenkins’ career earnings to $70 million.
“We have to understand that football is a nonessential business,” Jenkins told a CNN audience Thursday. “And so we don’t need to do it. The risk has to be really eliminated before we — before I — would feel comfortable with going back.”
When the Eagles declined to pick up an option on Jenkins, the Saints signed the safety to a four-year $32 million contract in mid-March, returning him to the organization and city that drafted him in 2009.
So far, the return on New Orleans’ reinvestment has resulted in Jenkins using Twitter to publicly smear Brees’ character for saying he disagreed with players taking a knee during the national anthem and Jenkins inking a commentator deal with a political news network, CNN.
The 2020 season was projected to be Brees’ 20th and final NFL campaign, a last chance for Brees and Payton to win a second Super Bowl together and carve out a more substantial legacy.
So I’m sure Payton and Brees were displeased yesterday watching Jenkins categorize the upcoming NFL season as a low priority in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jenkins reminds me of the 30-year, union factory employee who spends his final years working the assembly line on in-plant retirement. They nap in the bathroom. Their friends clock them in after lunch. And sick days are usually spent at a bingo parlor, massage parlor or bowling alley.
In the case of an uber-rich NFL player, on-field retirement consists of photo shoots for their personal website, television interviews about the latest controversial police shooting and recording videos blasting white teammates for not venerating Colin Kaepernick as the modern-day Muhammad Ali.
Football is Jenkins’ side hustle, something he does for the massive paycheck and the brand-building opportunities.
This NFL season is going to be quite interesting. Many players have immersed themselves in the social-media narrative that the NFL is a plantation and that every righteous field negro must break the chains of their football oppressor.....read more