I keep hearing people say this, but since when is an NFL team, field, etc. a public entity? Isn’t or aren’t most teams privately held businesses?
You don’t give up your Constitutional Rights when you go to work for someone, but they can impose limitations on your behavior as they see fit (such as not allowing CCW on their property). Your option is to quit unless it falls into an EEO issue. The problem here is that Kaepernick’s employer is not discouraging his bad behavior, and I suspect if they tried to do so the lawsuits would be going on for a decade in addition to the cost to buy out his contract.
THe best option is for the rest of us as “fans” to exercise our rights to ignore this idiot and boycott his employer. But we won’t...
For a long time (until a few years ago) the NFL was a “non-profit” entity.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/nfl-no-longer-non-profit-giving-tax-exempt-status-article-1.2202484
BY GARY MYERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 5:22 PM
...As a result of no longer being not-for-profit, which the NFL has been since 1942 - members of Congress have been critical of the exemption — it means the NFL will no longer have to disclose the salaries of employees at the league headquarters on Park Avenue, including commissioner Roger Goodell, whose salary was reported at $44 million in 2013...
And the stadiums are most assuredly public entities paid for by the locals.
I think there is even one team owned by the state or city.
They might be private enterprises, but considering all the taxpayer money that builds their stadiums, they should be public.