New part owner of the Richmond Roughriders, rapper Jim Jones, offered Colin Kaepernick a position in his new arena football venture.
“Kap listen man if you want to keep your skills up to par come on down to Roughriders,” said Jones to TMZ. “We got a couple dollars too. We can talk about some business. I think the world would pay to watch you play in any form of football, so I got a platform for you.”
“He enables us to introduce the hard-hitting, fast-paced game of arena football to the hip-hop culture,” said team owner and general manager Gregg Fornario, via the Times-Dispatch. “He’s also going to help us brand the Richmond Roughriders name not just in the community but nationwide.”
The Roughriders went undefeated in the regular season. The team’s next season begins in March 2018. They will compete in the new league of 12 teams, according to the press release.
Jim Jones also extended an invitation to troubled former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel in the TMZ interview. He joked that the Richmond Coliseum has a bar and Manziel could drink before games, alluding to Manziel’s struggles with substance abuse.