pictured: Jamarcus Russell was the first pick of the 2007 NFL Draft
by J.B. Cash
http://www.castefootball.us
(9/19/07) And on it goes. The NFL and the sports media’s desire to see blacks take over the last white dominated position in football continues unabated. Virtually every decent quarterback in the game is white and this causes no end of grief to those people that wish to see blacks dominate at all positions in the game of football.
Furthermore, the continuing dominance of white players at a position known for requiring intelligence continues to reinforce the idea of blacks as being incapable of performing mentally challenging tasks at a high level.
Probably about 50 percent of Division 1-A college football teams are starting blacks at quarterback. In some cases the “extra running back” in the backfield has led to success for teams and created the idea in people’s minds that this success can be translated to the pro game. However that has not been the case. Each year a new “Great Black (QB) Hope” is drafted along with a few other “projects” and the outcome is almost always the same, poor QB play and sheer incompetence. But that does not dissuade the anti-white bigots one bit, it just whets their appetite to push for even more of a “minority” presence at quarterback. Since the actual performance of black QBs has generally been pathetic, every media propaganda trick in the world must be employed to convince the fans that they are not seeing what they are actually seeing. Thus the media expresses unbridled enthusiasm for even the most hopeless of black QBs. The phony hype continues unabated in the hope that after two, three, five, even seven years of on-the-job failure a few of them might actually crack the top 15 in ratings.
However, other than Daunte Culpepper for a couple of years, and Donovan McNabb between injuries, the results of the unending search for the next “Great Black (QB) Hope” have come up empty.
The level of desperation gets ratcheted up each year. A few years ago Michael Vick was a number one draft pick in the hope that sufficient hype would somehow make that dog hunt. Nope. Vick proved to be a miserable throwing QB, so all attention was focused on his running ability until everyone realized that all attention was on his running ability. That’s not what you want in an NFL QB.
Vick’s team managed to win, sometimes in spite of him but even that eventually ended. Vick, of course, committed professional suicide with his involvement in dog fighting. It was probably the smoothest end to a “great black quarterback experiment” in the history of the league.
Kordell Stewart was given nearly a decade to “develop” in Pittsburgh until it was finally admitted that all he had developed into was a liability. Recently, Byron Leftwich was hailed as one of the new “breed” of black QB’s (what “breed” we hesitate to comment on). He was regularly praised for his performance, which had he been white would have gotten him benched.
Even Leftwich’s team realized the jig was up and unceremoniously jettisoned him at the end of training camp this year and he has now surfaced in Atlanta to torture that city’s fan base.
The NFL has gone so far as to have a team that only employs black quarterbacks. The Jacksonville Jaguars are unable to find a suitable white quarterback in a country full of them. Perhaps they get extra draft choices in exchange for a roster that includes David Garrard and Quinn Grey. Either one of those guys would be reason enough for a franchise to be demoted to minor league status let alone both of them, and they had to dump Leftwich to get to where they are now!
Bad black QBs come in all sizes and shapes, and all ages. Steve McNair has not been a decent quarterback since the Clinton administration but it appears he might make it through to the next Clinton administration. Yet another reason to regret the Bush years.
McNair is revered as a great leader, which means he is a well-known black man whose criminal charges did not result in actual jail time. McNair, whose accuracy range has been reduced to the screen pass and the dump off to the tight end, is essentially an “old school” QB from the days when the forward pass was forbidden.
The young version of the rotten black QB can be found in Tavaris Jackson of the Vikings. “Tavaris” is an ancient Greek name that was bestowed upon the guy in Grecian villages that couldn’t throw a rock accurately enough to hit the person being stoned to death. Jackson lives up to that ancient honor by being unable to throw balls anywhere near his receivers. Due to his obvious deficiencies as a QB Tavarius may be limited to only 5 or 6 years of extremely poor play as a starter.
Each year the NFL anoints a black college QB as the next “Great Black (QB) Hope.” Last year it was Vince Young, who was handed the starting job in Tennessee. The Titans traded away the only decent white QB on the team and then signed a veteran back-up so as to not provide any real competition for him. Young has been a generally abysmal QB and his team has played around .500 ball. This qualifies him for Pro Bowl consideration of course.
In 2006 Young was the 30th ranked QB (there are only 32 teams remember); this year he was hyped as a top ten fantasy QB pick based on his black skin or maybe his ranking of 21st amongst fantasy QBs last year. Either way it’s a joke and anyone that hasn’t caught on yet is not paying attention.
This year the Oakland Raiders displayed the drafting and player personnel savvy that has kept them in the basement for the last few years by selecting Jamarcus Russell with the number one pick. This is similar to playing “Wheel of Fortune” and buying a “Y” as your vowel. Fortunately for Raiders fans Russell held out all through during training camp. Their agony is thus delayed a few games and hopefully a complete season. It will only leave them 5 or 6 years of having to live with another failed attempt at a pro QB career by a black player.
With so many colleges playing black QBs over better qualified white prospects, the pressure to force more of them into the NFL will be ever more intense. A similar thing happened at the receiver position years ago. Blacks became well known as sprinters so the assumption was that they must be good receivers. That turned out to be WRONG! They’re dreadful at receiving. The amount of dropped passes in the game today must have Vince Lombardi spinning in his grave. But since all of the competition has been removed (i.e. white guys that can actually catch) no one realizes how poorly the position is played. If they can do the same thing at QB they will.
Excepting the kickers and cheerleaders, someone wants the NFL to be one hundred percent black. Each Vince Young and Tavaris Jackson is another step in that direction.