I got the following text message from Sophomore this past weekend:
"The white man's firm grip on the quarterback position has to be a wonder of the world."
It's both well written and funny. Yet it brings up an interesting point. How is this possible? There have been a number of good to great black quarterbacks over the past 45 years and the number is growing - particularly at the college level. But the contrast is seen most clearly in the NFL where only Donovan McNabb is entrenched as a top flight quarterback over the past five to ten years. And how is it possible that only one black quarterback has led his team to a Super Bowl victory? I guess it isn't really that big of a statistical anomaly when you compare the number of white starting QB's to the number of back starting QB's over the past 45 years.
Is there still so much racism out there that The Football Powers That Be still prefer white guys to be their QB? Or is it something else? The only logical thing I can come up with is the black guys are generally better athletes than white guys. And if you take a 6-4 white guy like Matt Ryan for example, he could never EVER play any other position in the NFL besides QB (and kicker or punter which, by the way, might be the single most racially lopsided job in the United States). Whereas if you take a 6-4 black guy like Donovan McNabb for example; he is a great athlete - period. And under different circumstances as a youngster you could realistically envision him being a quality receiver, safety or linebacker. This is the only explanation, besides racism, that I can come up with. When kids are young and start playing football the best athletes get put at positions that require the best athletes and the fat kids are linemen and the white guy with the good arm is quarterback. I don't know, this explanation is probably racist somehow in it's own right. Actually, is this whole topic reverse racism?
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the reason is because in order for a gb to be successfull at the nfl level they have to be huge dorks. (i assume this is because they need to spend a lot of time studying plays and viewing footage or something) black guys seem to have a more difficult time pulling off dorkiness, but look at the two exceptions, mcnabb is probably the dorkiest black guy to appear on tv since erkel and i'm relatively sure that warren moon and steve pool are the same person.
ReplyDeletepayton is clearly the best qb in the nfl right now, and definately the biggest dork. Eli was not shorted on the dork gene. kurt warner! brees, dork. cutler, twerpy dork. romo, should be a better qb than he is because everytime i see that guys face i want to slap it he is such a dork, and there is nothing worse than a dork that thinks he is cool. which brings us to brady... i'll just say, just because women think a guy is good looking doesn't mean he is not a dork. a guy i worked with in san diego had dinner with phillip rivers, part of the buying a box deal. Lost all faith in him as a qb because all he talked about was how much he loved his wife, basically he came off as an overly religeous hick dork (should have been reassuring). why do you think palmer succeded and leinert failed? (for anyone that wants to argue that leinert is a dork, you are wrong, he is a douche, and there are important differences) How about the huge embarrassing failure of ryan leaf? that wasn't a failure at all leaf was a badass, he did what any badass would do. "20 million dollars! sweet, thanks, see ya!"
and that of course brings us to the exception that proves the rule... dave krieg. krieg was the sweetest qb the nfl has ever seen, and he is completely awesome in every way and not one bit dorky.... but, i did once see him do a post game interview in a full on canadian tuxedo... with a denim backpack.
Paul, you're very funny {read: weird}, but I like it. Should I add you to my blog list of friends?? Maybe you could add a tiny little blurb of your girls sometime. Let's get together. SOON!
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