>He does not need an excuse for exercising constitutional rights though right? - so it does not matter what anyone thinks of his excuse/reasons or if anyone agrees with it..and for that matter he doesn't even need to provide a reason or excuse either. That was kind of my point when I said the whole thing is dumb to begin with.

Yes, he has a complete constitutional right to do what he did. I'll defend that to the end - just like I'll defend my right to say that I don't agree with him. Barack Obama was right today when he said, "democracy can be messy".

Why wasn't he doing this when he was performing well in the league? The timing strongly suggests he did this to protect his position on the team. Had he been released by the 49ers, he easily could have turned around and said that he was released for holding unpopular views.

>Agreed - but I bet even if he does do the donations, fox news will still have nothing positive to say about it - they will somehow spin it into a bad thing. Just wait and see it will happen - it's as easy as predicting the sun will come up in the morning haha

I don't care what Fox News says. If he indeed donates the money, he'll be a better man than anyone at Fox who criticizes him.