The Kap thing is a minefield, depending on who you are talking to. Football fans who watched his career arc on the field understand that this isn't John Elway we're talking about--and quite possibly not even a viable NFL starter. An NFL owner would almost have to be begging to get his team some "attention" from the national media by bringing him in. The daily swarm of reporters, twitter explosions based on every practice throw caught on cell phone video, everyone associated with the organization having to answer "so what do you think about Kap?" every day ... if this was Elway in his prime, sure, maybe you take that on if you don't have your franchise QB on board already. For the Kap we saw on the field his last couple seasons in the league? Maybe not so much.
And tangentially ... maybe I'm naive on this one point, but color me skeptical that this group of 32 billionaires has the collective will or capacity to actively collude on anything, much less something with as much potential nuclear-fallout-inducing as blackballing Colin Kap.
These days, if I'm talking to non-football fans, or at least people who only seem to remember his explosion in that one Super Bowl run season, when they ask what I think about Kap, I take a deep breath, and try to instantly assess the potential damage to the relationship I might have with them before tackling a considered answer. Generally I go with something like, "He certainly has generated some buzz--oh hey, can I get you another glass of that red?"
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