The saga of Colin Kaepernick continues.    

On the field, he stinks.  His 49ers are a disaster, and I saw a lot of empty seats in a recent game in San Francisco.   

A couple of years ago, he was a young quarterback with quite a future.  Today, he looks like a guy who needs a change of scenery and total mental tune-up.

Off the field, Colin Kaepernick is even worse.  He continues to speak and speak and make a total fool out of himself.

His remarks about Fidel Castro are no better than what P.M. Trudeau of Canada and Dr. Jill Stein said of the dictator's death.  This is a bit of Colin on Castro:

"I agree with the investment in education," Kaepernick said. "I also agree with the investment in free universal health care, as well as the involvement with him in helping end apartheid in South Africa. I would hope that everyone believes those things are good things. Trying to push the false narrative that I was a supporter of the oppressive things that he did is just not true."

Memo to Colin: Cubans do not get to choose what books they read in school.  In other words, history class in Cuba's schools represents the state's views.  And the health care system is so good that Castro brought in Spanish doctors to care for him.    

The Colin story did have a happy turn in Miami last Sunday, as we read in the Miami Herald:

Dolphins linebacker Kiko Alonso gave the fans in Miami what they wanted Sunday, picking off Colin Kaepernick and making a jarring tackle on the 49ers’ quarterback that preserved a 31-24 Dolphins win. 

After the game, Alonso, the son of a Cuban immigrant, acknowledged that Kaepernick had caused “bad blood” with comments the San Francisco player had made about Fidel Castro.

"Yeah, it matters,” Alonso said Sunday of Kaepernick’s words about Castro, which were made shortly before the former Cuban leader died Friday. The quarterback had appeared reluctant to condemn Castro and offered praise for his efforts in boosting Cuba’s “literacy rate.”

“Usually, I just try to play my game. But I did try to hit him,” Alonso told the Herald’s Armando Salguero, who was the reporter who grilled Kaepernick about Castro last week. Salguero, like Alonso’s father, was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States.

With that father, Carlos Alonso, on hand after the game, the linebacker told Salguero, “You two saw what happened in Cuba firsthand. I didn’t. But I do have feelings about it.

“So there was some bad blood there for me with Kaepernick.”

"Muy bueno," Kiko.  You did good!    

When will the 49ers ownership show some backbone and release him?  Colin is hurting the NFL brand and the team.  Pro athletes always get in trouble when their political opinions make more headlines than their TD passes!

Better than that, why doesn't Colin move to Cuba and offer his services to Raúl Castro?  Cuba has always needed Western fools to carry its water.

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