Blaine Gabbert announces he will kneel for national anthem due to oppression of bad quarterbacks

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Blaine Gabbert was told today by head coach Chip Kelly that he will no longer be the team’s starter at the position, prompting Gabbert to tell reporters that he will no longer stand for the pregame national anthem.

“Enough is enough. I refuse to just do nothing in the face of a system that discriminates against those of us who work as hard as everyone else, but just don’t happen to be ‘good’ at football,” he said, adding air quotes around ‘good.’ “You see it all over the league. This afternoon Charlie Whitehurst got cut by the Browns. The Browns! How is that fair? The man is just trying to support his family and almost every NFL team has released him now just because he stinks and gets hurt? Ridiculous”

Gabbert, a former 1st Round pick of the Jaguars who has a woeful 71.6 career quarterback rating in six NFL seasons, said he will kneel during the national anthem this week in order to raise awareness of the “double standard” that affects bad players.

“Look, I know a lot of bad football players,” he said. “I went to Missouri. I played for the Jaguars. And now I’m on the 49ers. It’s not easy for us. We can lose our jobs and be out of the league in an instant. That’s not the security America is supposed to provide. We are people just like Tom Brady or Antonio Brown or Russell Wilson. We just happen to be terrible at football.”

Gabbert insisted he loves his country and wants to change it from the inside.

“However, if it doesn’t get better, I may leave,” he said. “I may go to Canada and play in the CFL.”