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Kaeping It at 7; The End to My NFL Boycott

"I don't want to do this." On August 21, 2017, I posted this very statement as the lede on my first blog post, explaining that I would boycott the NFL due to it's blackballing of Colin Kaepernick over his protest over police killings and brutality. I stated I would  boycott until the embattled quarterback was signed or until the end of the 2017 season . I made no promise that I would or could continue to boycott for the 2018 season because I knew I couldn't do this again. Last year was tough enough. I got angry. Real angry. And the more I heard and read throughout the season, the more it took a toll on me mentally to witness all of this crap go down. I wound up following the NFL's blackballing of Kaepernick and reading all the poor excuses it made for why a capable quarterback in a talent-strapped league at that position in particular somehow couldn't make a team. I mean there was a time the entire AFC South Division was in need of an NFL quarter...