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Sunday Football Musing

   This past week the National Football League granted a private workout for Colin Kaepernick.  The Atlanta Falcons opened their world class facility for this workout.  Hue Jackson, the former coach of the Cleveland Browns, was tapped to oversee this workout.  All 32 teams were invited and 25 showed up.  All 32 teams would have seen tape of the workout.  The time was set for 3:00 p.m.    At 2:30 p.m., Mr. Kaepernick announced he was changing the workout to a new location in the Atlanta area.  The time would now be set for 4 p.m.  The area in question was some 60 miles away.    After 3 years of whining, consistently, that he wasn't being given a chance, after suing the NFL for collusion and then settling for an undisclosed amount, after signing a multi-million dollar deal with Nike, the NFL gave Mr. Kaepernick what he wanted.  He was getting a chance to show his skills to 25 people from the most elite football organizations in the world.  Unsurprisingly, at least to a