Colin Kaepernick Learning the Hard Way That Loyalty Doesn’t Pay in the NFL

November 6, 2015   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

Deion Sanders once had maybe the best line ever about loyalty in sports. It's succinct. It's beautiful. It's also incredibly true.
"It's hard for me to fathom," Sanders said not long ago during a player roundtable discussion, "that I gotta be loyal to you, when you're not loyal to me."
Sanders later added: "I can't love nothin' that can't love me back."
This brings me to Colin Kaepernick, who was just benched by the 49ers and almost certainly will be playing elsewhere next season, likely in a place like Philadelphia. 
Kaepernick never learned the lesson that Sanders did. There is no loyalty in football. It doesn't exist.
Kaepernick got royally screwed by the 49ers for showing loyalty to the organization, and now, for doing that, he'll likely be out on the street.
Let me explain. We have to go back to June 2014 when Kaepernick signed what was trumpeted as a $126 million contract with $61 million guaranteed.
Those initial leaked numbers were, well,...

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