Jamie Nye: Say his name!

It was Walter White in Breaking Bad who famously uttered the phrase “Say my name.”

I can’t help but think Colin Kaepernick was uttering that same phrase if he spent the 90 seconds to listen to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s apology on Friday.

It was an about-face by the top man in the NFL who tried to push through a rule without the players’ consent that all players must stand for the national anthem or stay in the locker room. Kaepernick, of course, led a protest by kneeling.

But in Goodell’s apology on protests for fairness and equality, he never said Kaepernick’s name.

He’s the one player who was blackballed because the league allowed the debate to rage on that Kaepernick’s protest was about the anthem, a theory which was misguided and which led to Goodell’s apology.

However, if he was going to be contrite, Goodell needed to go all the way and at least say Kaepernick’s name.

He’s owed as much after the millions he lost in salary because white owners were scared of a black protest.