The Senate is out of session this week and the Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill on hold, but the war against the historic American nation continues—even in the National Football League.

This was the weekend of the NFL Draft, a media spectacle featuring the 32 franchises supposedly scrambling to pick the best college football athletes in the country. This year, the Draft was expected to be watched by some 50 million people. [NFL Turns Its 6-Month Season Into a 12-Month Business, CNBC, April 26, 2013]

The NFL isn’t just a sports-entertainment empire that generates many billions of profit per year. It’s also a wonderful distraction—an opiate for the masses, if you will—from such frivolous news as the Gang of Eight’s desire to turn all of America into California.

But it’s more than that. It’s another battlefield in America’s long war against her own people.

The 2013 Draft provides another example of anti-white discrimination that goes all but unmentioned by the fanatically PC sports journalism establishment.

In the NFL, there is no such thing as “white privilege”. There’s systematic anti-white bias, as I’ve documented here.

•The Super Bowl, The Rooney Rule, And The Spread Of Anti-White Quotas In Obama’s America, February 13, 2013
•Superbowl 2012: NE Patriots vs. NY Giants—And Anti-White Stereotypes, February 5, 2012
•Tim Tebow: Bucking The NFL’s Anti-White Bias, October 22, 2011

The NFL’s studied indifference to its lack of white players contrasts dramatically with the attitudes of other professional sports leagues accused of having too few blacks. Major League Baseball (MLB) has no problem conducting studies to try and figure out why so few of its on-field employees are black. Incredibly, even the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) has seen accusations of being anti-black, with the Minnesota Timberwolves attacked for being “too white” for daring to have 10 of its 15 players be non-black in an 80 percent black league.

The NFL itself has undertaken a more than three-decade long quest to promote more black quarterbacks, with Rush Limbaugh being one of the casualties of the war.

White players are actively discriminated against in most professional sports, but especially football. Let’s take one example: the stereotypically black position of wide receiver. In the 2013 Draft, of the 254 players selected, 28 were receivers (11 percent). Of those 28 receivers selected, only one was a white athlete—Texas A&M’s Ryan Swope, who ran the second fastest 40-yard-dash for a receiver at the NFL Combine, at 4.34.

He was selected in the sixth round, despite being one of the top receivers in college football, projected as a third or fourth round pick.

Another overlooked white receiver: Conner Vernon, the record-setting star from Duke University. He wasn’t drafted, although he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Oakland Raiders. This means he will be forced to compete for a roster spot.

Vernon’s problems began in high school. He was a fervent fan of his hometown University of Miami, but his favorite team ignored him, as did just about everyone else. The reason is something that “white privilege” ideologues can’t explain:

Despite his accomplishments and the seven other members of his class getting Division I attention, Vernon still had no offers and had yet to get a call from a Football Bowl Subdivision school.

“Bob Stoops, (Steve) Spurrier, all those guys were at the school at one time or another, and the coaches would tell them, ‘you need to look at this kid, you need to look at this kid,’ ” Robert Vernon, Conner’s father, said. “And they said, ‘yeah, yeah, we’ll look at him,’ but they didn’t. They took Conner for granted.”

Shane Vernon, who received offers from FCS or Division II schools, has another theory.

“I knew the stereotypes and stigmas that were in football,” he said. “I got to learn it the hard way. It’s an uphill battle, and you have this white boy stigma. It’s always there, no matter how good you are, what you do, it will always be there, so you’ve just got to stand out that much more.”

Vernon stood out during spring football before his senior year. He was named the sleeper of the Under Armour/Scout combine after he ran a 4.41-second 40-yard dash.

Vernon grows into record-setting receiver for Duke, Charlotte Observer, August 27, 2012]

Despite Vernon’s accomplishments, not one Florida college offered him a scholarship coming out of high school. Only Duke, the University of Mississippi, Vanderbilt, Troy and Wake Forest approached one of the best high school players in the country.

It didn’t stop him. While at Duke, Vernon became the most productive receiver in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) history, posting multiple seasons of 70+ catches.

Nonetheless, this weekend, Vernon wasn’t even drafted.

ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr., who has built a lucrative career out of evaluating NFL Draft prospects, had projected Vernon to be a 5th round selection. In his analysis, he compared Vernon to another white receiver, Wes Welker, saying, “[Vernon is] a strong kid with very deceptive speed.” (Incidentally, why is the speed of a white receiver “deceptive?”)

Interestingly, Welker (who recently signed with the Denver Broncos) also went undrafted by the NFL in 2004—in fact, he only had one scholarship coming out of high school. He has since gone on to have one of the most productive receiving careers in NFL history.

Vernon himself is well aware of what is happening.

Conner Vernon watched Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker work the slot, noting how the 5-9, 185-pound water bug set up his routes to create space when he made a break one way or another during workouts at Duke University this month.

Then Vernon would peek to the outside to see Welker’s teammate, Eric Decker, using his 6-3, 218-pound frame to get separation from defensive backs on top of him.

All the while, Vernon, 22, wondered how he possibly could have drawn comparisons to two wide receivers whose styles of play are vastly different from each other’s.

“It’s funny how, nowadays, you’re just comparing race to race here,” the Duke receiver and projected midround pick told USA TODAY Sports. “Aside from my skin color, I don’t see where they got that assumption.

[Typecasting confounds Duke's Conner Vernon, Mike Garafolo, USA TODAY, April 22, 2013]

Both Welker and Decker are white wide receivers for the Denver Broncos. They’ll be catching a lot of footballs in 2013 thrown by Peyton Manning. Peyton’s brother Eli of the NY Giants commented casually of Vernon, “He does have some talent, so it’ll be interesting to see if he does get a shot somewhere.”

Some talent?

Why would Vernon’s abilities be so lightly dismissed? Well, the same reason the Green Bay Packers Jordy Nelson wasn’t treated as a big threat – he’s a white guy trying to play a position long dominated by black athletes [Teammates say Jordy Nelson is underestimated because he’s white, Pro Football Talk, November 19, 2011].

According to TIDES Sports, only 13 percent of those employed as wide receivers in the NFL last season were white; 87 percent were black. The NFL as a whole is roughly 67 percent black and 30 percent white. Since 1998, each season roughly 90-91 percent of those employed as receivers in the NFL have been black athletes.

Nonetheless, every year it seems another white receiver displays “some talent”—to use Eli Manning’s term—and becomes fodder for a quick Man Bites Dog news story:

•Ed McCaffrey of the Denver Broncos [White Lightning; With no pomp and precious little padding, the Broncos' deceptively fast Ed McCaffrey has become the NFL's unlikeliest star wide receiver, Sports Illustrated, November 30, 1998]
•Patrick Jeffers of the Cowboys [New Cowboys Receiver Makes Big Impression, AP, December 4, 1998]
•The University of Georgia’s Michael Bennett [Notebook: Bennett proving he belongs, ESPN, September 18, 2012]
•Ricky Proehl [White Guys Can't Run, Sports Illustrated, September 7, 1992]
•Drew Bennett, Bill Schroeder, and Kevin Curtis [White receivers in NFL becoming scarce, Green Bay Press Gazette, August 12, 2006]:

As one white receiver put it, “We’re a minority… in many ways being a white receiver is kind of like being an African-American golfer. I don’t know why it’s like that, but that’s just the way it is.”

•Brian Hartline of the Miami Dolphins, who is also labeled “deceptively fast

Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who played receiver his first two years at Texas A&M, knows about the stereotyping Hartline faces. About being called “deceptively fast,” Tannehill said, “I’ve had that label before, too. It’s just kind of a stigma that comes with it.”

[Brian Hartline trying to prove that he can be the speedy deep threat the Miami Dolphins have sought, Palm Beach Post, October 10, 2012]

What is the NFL doing about this lack of real diversity? Needless to say, it is campaigning for more non-white head and assistant coaches, front office personnel, physicians, and broadcasters.

Paul Kersey is the author of the blog SBPDL, and has published the books SBPDL Year One, Hollywood in Blackface and Escape From Detroit, and Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White.

http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-2013-nfl-draft-ryan-swope-conner-vernon-latest-casualties-of-war-against-whites

Rex Burkhead

by Mark Knudson.

We all know there is a stigma attached to white running backs. They aren’t fast enough to be successful in the NFL, so goes the prevailing thought.

Rex Burkhead didn’t do much to dispel that notion at the NFL combine, where he ran a pedestrian 4.73 in the 40-yard dash. He improved on that, running a 4.55 at Nebraska’s pro day, which is plenty fast for an NFL running back. Better than Stefan Taylor from Stanford and a handful of others, but not good enough, I guess. That’s really the only stat that gets any attention or publicity from the meat market/combine, as we all know. Therefore the self-proclaimed draft gurus have Burkhead rated very low as a potential NFL draft pick.

Sure, you hear about guys with underwhelming scores on the Wonderlic test, or when someone does something freaky good like bench pressing 225 pounds 40 times, stuff like that. Otherwise, the rest of the stats go pretty much unnoticed and the gurus who then decide who’s a good draft pick based on this sliver of information.
As Husker fans, we have some news for Mr.’s McShay, Kiper, Mayock, etc. Rex Burkhead can play in the NFL. Not just play, but excel. Some NFL team is going to get a late round steal come the end of April. As a Broncos fan, I dream of seeing Burkhead in the same backfield as Peyton Manning. Whew!

Analysts get so caught up in combine numbers that they forget there’s a whole bunch of video of these guys actually PLAYING FOOTBALL. Watch Rex Burkhead play football, and you will see for yourself. We watch it. Hopefully they do, too.

Burkhead’s senior year wasn’t what anyone wanted it to be, but even playing hurt, he did save his best performances for the likes of Ohio State and Georgia, and averaged almost seven yards per carry. Ask the Buckeyes if Rex Burkhead is fast enough. Ask Georgia if he can catch the ball out of the backfield, which is so important for NFL teams now. (Gil Brandt says Burkhead has “an exceptional pair of hands.”) Ask Iowa about Burkhead’s incredible nine yard pile moving run from his own one-yard line that sealed the deal in last season’s game…when he wasn’t even supposed to play. That was a couple thousand pounds of football players he was moving. Yet he’s not got enough lower body strength? Really?

It’s amazing that these analysts can’t see past his 40-yard dash times.

Burkhead was far from a bust at the combine. He was a “top performer” in five of the six testing categories. He was second among the 33 invitees in vertical leap, broad jump and 20-yard shuttle run. He was fourth in the cone drills and fifth in the 60-yard shuttle. It was a tremendous performance.

Some of these rankings are just absurd. Scott Wright of www.nfldraftcountdown.com has Burkhead listed a ridiculous 21st among draft eligible running backs. There aren’t five better prospects in this class, yet Wright has Burkhead behind guys like Giovani Bernard of North Carolina, Jawan Jamison of Rutgers, Onterio McCalebb of Auburn and Kerwynn Williams of Utah State. You know, guys who performed big time on the national stage last season. Not.

Someone named Frank Cooney also has Burkhead ranked 21st…and has him as a 7th round draft pick or even a free agent. This self-anointed guru noted that Burkhead “wasn’t invited to the NFL scouting combine.” Huh? Maybe someone should clue him in.

By the way, Burkhead, at #21, is the HIGHEST rated WHITE running back. Stigma, indeed.

http://www.examiner.com/article/white-running-back-stigma-unfairly-hurting-burkhead

Ultra-liberal Dan Rooney, owner of the NFL’s blackest ever team, the Pittsburgh Steelers

Cultural Marxist czar Richard Lapchick

by Paul Kersey.

Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers is an anticlimactic finale to the National Football League (NFL) season—two minor teams with no iconic players. But it does have one interesting subplot: it’s the first time brothers are the head coaches of the respective teams—Jim Harbaugh for the 49ers and John Harbaugh for the Ravens.

Both are white, and, in a business where a head coach has all the job security of a Kamikaze pilot, they rose to the top on merit. However, it is increasingly clear that will soon be unacceptable in Obama’s America.

The reason? There were eight vacant NFL head-coaching positions after the 2012 season ended and every one of the positions went to a white man. That is just intolerable in 2013, when we have all been conditioned to believe that, wherever a white male is getting a job, some form of “racism” is being practiced.

(Ironically, even President Barack Obama has been embroiled in this controversy—for daring to hire white men for his Cabinet![America's first black president slammed for white male Cabinet, MSN, January 11, 2013] And he has duly groveled: Obama urges patience to critics of white male nominees, CNN, January 14, 2013.
After all, it’s 2013—hiring white males is so passé!

Remember, the NFL already has the infamous Rooney Rule in place, mandating that a black candidate must be interviewed for every head coach opening.

Here’s what NFL.com writer Ian Rapoport (Message him on Twitter) wrote about the scandal:

“The numbers themselves do not look good. For any proponent of the NFL’s Rooney Rule and any advocate of open-minded hiring, it was a shutout.

“Eight coaches and seven general managers lost their jobs following the 2012 NFL season. None of those posts was filled by a person of color.

“That has led Robert Gulliver, the NFL’s executive vice president of human resources, to call it ‘disappointing.’

“But was it a failure of the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate for each coach or GM opening?

“Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, namesake of the decade-old rule, views it differently. He would advocate for tinkering with the rule he championed in 2003.

“‘Let me say this: In all eight cases, we have very excellent compliance,’ Rooney told NFL.com and NFL Network in an exclusive interview. ‘Every team followed procedures, interviewed minority candidates. From that standpoint, we were pleased. As far as, now people saying they didn’t get the job. Maybe this year, there weren’t the candidates they thought there would be so they would get the jobs. On the other hand, it’s up to the coach, the candidate, to show the owner that they’re capable of doing the job. That’s a big thing. Evidently, they weren’t able to do that this year’.”

Dan Rooney: The Rooney Rule ‘workable,’ can be tweaked, NFL.com, 1-20-13 [Links in original]

Rapoport is a white male sports journalist, bemoaning the lack of black male head coaches in the NFL for NFL.com. It’s like reading Pravda from the old Soviet Union. Rapoport has to choose between the party line and the unemployment line.

But it gets worse. An expansion of the Rooney Rule is in preparation, to include the positions of offensive and defensive coordinator. That will be yet another road block in the career of white NFL coaches:

“The Rooney Rule, which requires NFL franchises to interview at least one minority candidate for head-coaching jobs, is a good thing. But it’s not working. However, CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora reports the Rooney Rule will probably undergo changes in 2013, with the rule likely being expanded to include coordinator and assistant head-coaching positions.

“League sources tell La Canfora there is strong support for Rooney Rule expansion in 2013 that will require NFL teams to interview a minority candidate for all coordinator and assistant head-coaching positions. Additionally, La Canfora reports the yet-to-be-proposed expansion would pass easily.

“It’s expected, La Canfora reports, that the final language for a Rooney Rule expansion will be created by the diversity committee this offseason and that any proposed expansion will be a ‘key topic’ at the March owners meetings this offseason.

“Following a full-blown white-washing of NFL coaching hires (eight vacant spots were filled with eight Caucasians) and front-office spots, the NFL said it would look into the lack of minority hires around the NFL.”

NFL may expand Rooney Rule to include coordinators, assistant HCs, CBS Sports, by Will Brinson, January 20, 2013. Links in original.

Gresham’s Law states that bad money drives out good, and this applies to public policy too. Somewhere this Super Bowl weekend, Richard Lapchick (email him), the Cultural Marxist self-proclaimed “social conscience of sport” and compiler of the demographic breakdown of professional sports front office and coaching staffs, is smirking. One of the key goals he has fought for his entire adult life—the imposition of non-whites, particularly blacks, in every position in the front offices and coaching staffs of all professional and collegiate sports—is now one of the hot topics in Establishment Sports talk. Lapchick’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida seems likely to form the blueprint for a future US Government Office of Diversity and Ethics in Public and Private Employment.

Typically, much of Lapchick’s moral authority comes from a very early example of a “Hoax Crime”. In 1978, according to Lapchick, some bad, racist white men broke into his office at Virginia Wesleyan College, and carved the word n-i-g-e-r—the Deplorable Word minus a “g”—on his stomach with a pair of scissors.

Lapchick been telling this story ever since, and according the New York Times , blacks wish he would stop, because for one thing, he actually pronounces the Deplorable Word in his stump speech. [A Lifetime of Battling Bias, By Harvey Araton, November 13, 2011]

According Gary Edwards, who was a student at Virginia Wesleyan at the time, but is now Men’s Basketball Coach at Francis Marion University, “The police, as a part of their investigation, called in the State Medical Examiner, Dr. Frank Presswalla, to look at [Lapchick's] wounds. Dr. Presswalla concluded the misspelled racial slur that Lapchick said his assailants had carved on his stomach with scissors was ‘self-inflicted.’

“There were people who said Lapchick had staged the assault to create publicity for his cause. Lapchick refused to take a lie detector test for ‘moral reasons.’ And we never heard from him again at Virginia Wesleyan College. Those are the facts. You can look it up.”

[EDWARDS COLUMN: Just some facts to chew on, SCNow.com, December 7, 2012]

You could look it up—if you don’t work for the New York Times.

Lapchick’s self-inflicted scar, and his uninterrupted triumphal procession through the MSM, is a symbol of the age of Obama.

That’s the true state of not just the NFL—but America—on this Super Bowl Sunday.

http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-super-bowl-the-rooney-rule-and-the-spread-of-anti-white-quotas-in-obama-s-america

I’m well aware of the controlled media’s biases and their penchant for “disappearing” both the achievements of White men and any representation of authentic White masculinity. So, I’m never surprised by the endless crowing about “black athletic supremacy”. Nor am I surprised when they promote those sports that blacks tend to do well in and ignore sports Whites dominate.

They bombard us with images of black athletic superiority. Their talking heads and other pundits reinforce that imagery with incessant cackling about how “athletic” this or that black athlete is. No matter how good a White athlete is, he is never called athletic; maybe gritty, or hardworking, or “old school,” but never “athletic” or even “talented.” No wonder most people think blacks are superior athletes.

That’s why I was struck by the Whiteness of the 2012 World’s Strongest Man competition while watching a replay of it on Youtube last weekend. That Whiteness was made even more striking by the fact that the event was recorded just outside Los Angeles — in possibly the most “diverse” county in America — yet all ten of the athletes in the final, were White. And that is just an extension of the racial reality of strength competition.

Year in and year out, over 90 percent of the World’s Strongest Man competitors are White. And what’s more, the few non-Whites who are invited to the competition for “diversity’s” sake, routinely place in the bottom half of the competition. Usually dead last or very near it. This, of course, shows that they are really not qualified but are given the opportunity because of the event organizers anti-White desire to promote “diversity.”
White domination extends to all other strength sports as well. In fact, White men dominate any athletic endeavor founded in strength. Since their inception, they have dominated power-lifting and Olympic weightlifting competitions. They tend to predominate in the “field” events of track & field, Olympic wrestling (both freestyle and Greco Roman), and are even over-represented in the offensive lines of the NFL. (A sport administratively controlled by Jews, that has a long history of anti-White discrimination.)

Media experts and other anti-Whites attempt to explain away White domination in strength sports with the usual canards that non-Whites don’t do well in these areas because of poverty or a lack of opportunity. But that doesn’t hold water.

Blacks like to say that they are “ghetto rich.” Black kids have everything White kids have. They have the most expensive video gaming consoles, $200 sneakers, and many of them have enough “bling” to sink a battleship.

Further, weightlifting equipment and gym memberships aren’t that expensive (today, many gym memberships are $10 or less per month).

Because of the historic stigma in White culture against weight-training and the glorification of the physical in black culture and because black culture promotes the entertainment field (including sports) as a quick and easy way to get rich — weight-training is much more popular in black communities. Percentage-wise there are far more black youths lifting weights than Whites. Also, as mentioned above, because of the dearth of qualified black strength-athletes and the politically driven desire of strength event organizers to include more non-Whites, it is Whites who find that their opportunities are increasingly curtailed.

The real reason for White success in strength sports is almost certainly genetic. They probably have more white — or slow-twitch — muscle fiber, which is responsible for strength. Just as blacks tend to predominate in sports where speed is emphasized because they have more red — or fast-twitch — muscle fiber.

Whites, particularly White athletes, need to speak-up against the ongoing discrimination and displacement of White men in sports.

http://theforemostproblem.blogspot.com/2013/01/white-power-white-domination-of.html

What does Lance Armstrong’s initial come-back, and eventual downfall, tell us? In a civilization that is in its Autumn, if not already entering Winter, it’s a certain type of Western man that is dying, waiting better times to rise again. Lance could have been a navigator in the 15th century, an explorer in the 16th, a settler in the 17th. He might have fought for American independence, or become an industrial capitalist in the 19th century. Born in the earlier part of the 20th century he might have risen to become a great astronaut like his even more famous namesake. But he was born in the post-WWII West, where men of value have only vicarious ways to prove their worth. http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/zeitgeist/fall-of-a-tragic-hero/

Wes Welker

by Russell A. James.

It’s no secret that the NFL discriminates against White athletes, particularly in the so-called “skill positions” — like wide receiver. On any given Sunday, during the regular season, there are 64 starting wide receivers on NFL rosters. For the last week of the 2012 season, only eight of them were White — all the rest, were black. This is particularly surprising considering that Whites outnumber blacks by a factor of six in this country.

It’s also surprising seeing that, with the exception of speed, the skills (agility and hand-eye co-ordination) that constitute a good receiver are more prevalent in the White population. That Whites are more agile is well-known among football coaches and player personnel — because it is tested for in the scouting combines. There are three tests: 30 yard shuttle, 60 yard shuttle, and the 3 cone drill that directly measure agility. The mean scores for Whites are significanly higher than for blacks, for all three tests. While there is no test for hand-eye co-ordination, that White receivers are superior in this category is borne-out week after week, when they consistently catch the ball at a much higher rate than their black counterparts. (White starting receivers catch 63.4% of the passes thrown their way, black starters have a reception percentage approximately in the mid 50′s.)

This obvious discrimination makes Wes Welker something of an anomaly. Over the last six seasons (seasons in which he has been allowed to start consistently) he has, arguably, been the best receiver in the game. No one has caught more balls — 672 — over that time period. The next closest player is Brandon Marshall with 592. Welker has caught an average of 13 more passes, per season, than the next best guy.

Receptions, however, are not the best measure of receiving excellence. There are better stats that demonstrate excellence at the position: yards per target (or the number of yards a receiver gains per chance he is given to gain yards), yards after catch, and reception percentage. I prepared a simple table to compare elite receivers. Players were chosen if they had finished in the top ten, at least four of the last six seasons, in one of two categories: receptions and yardage. Seven wide-outs qualified. They are listed in order of reception totals.

Player         Recepts   Targets    REC%    Yards    YPT      Avg./Reception
W. Welker     672          925         72.6%    7459     8.1          11.1
B. Marshall   592          993         59.6%    7446     7.5          12.6
R. Wayne       578          935         61.8%    7589     8.1          13.1
R. White        563          953         59.1%     7773     8.2          13.8
L. Fitzgerald  534         954         56.0%    7278     7.6          13.6
A. Johnson    507         779          65.1%     7301     9.4         14.4
C. Johnson   488         882         55.3%     7836     8.9         16.1

Player         YAC      YAC/Reception     YAC/Yards      GP      GS
W. Welker 3848           5.73                       51.6%             93      78
B. Marshall 2281          3.85                       30.6%            92     90
R. White      2265         4.02                       29.1%             96      92
L. Fitzgerald 1967        3.68                       27.0%            95      94
A. Johnson   2192        4.32                       30.0%            77       76
R. Wayne      2131         3.69                       28.1%            96       95
C. Johnson  2366         4.85                       30.2%           92       86

As you can see from the table, Andre Johnson leads the yards per target (YPT) category with 9.4 yards. Wes Welker is tied for fourth place with 8.1 YPT. But because YPT depends so heavily on how an offense uses a receiver (those in an offense that throws a lot of deep passes will benefit from that) it alone isn’t sufficient to determine the best receiver.

The other two categories, because they are largely dependant on the receiver himself, are somewhat better measures of receiver greatness. And Welker dominates both categories. He dominates the group in reception percentage (REC%) at 72.6%, with A. Johnson the next best at 65.1% and Calvin Johnson bringing up the rear with a 55.3 REC%.

But where he really separates from the pack is in his ability to gain yards after he catches the ball. He averages 5.73 yards after each catch. The next best among the elite is C. Johnson at 4.85 YAC with Larry Fitzgerald only gaining 3.68 YAC. Even more telling is the fact that 51.6% of his total yardage is gained after he receives the ball. The average of the rest of this group is less than 29%.

Although, Welker is perhaps the best receiver in the league, it is highly unlikely he is the best White receiver in the land. He is simply a very talented player who has been given an opportunity to play at the position. There are 10′s of thousands of White football players across the land. But few of them — no matter how much better than their black competitors, they prove themselves to be on high school and college gridirons — will ever be given an opportunity to start an NFL game. Why?

During the middle part of the last century, a Jew-dominated group of Cultural Marxists from the Frankfurt School made what they called a “long march through [our] institutions.” In other words, they infiltrated all of America’s institutions of power and took control of them (they call this “Entryism”). They did this so they could, as they say, “induce cultural pessimism in White males.” In other words, they wanted to use their new found control over our culture to strip White men and boys of their confidence. A key strategy of this plan was to gain administrative control of the sports leagues and use that control to slowly replace White men with non-Whites, (particularly) blacks. We see this in every one of the major sports leagues with the exception of hockey. Blacks are not better athletes, they are simply being used as part of a larger strategy to destroy White America.

http://theforemostproblem.blogspot.com/2013/01/its-no-secret-that-nfl-discriminates.html

The news of Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher showing a complete lack of impulse control shouldn’t startle anyone who pays attention to the reality of race and crime. Especially when it comes to those athletes who are employees of the National Football League (NFL), a billion-dollar entertainment enterprise.

Sixty-eight percent of those athletes who play for the NFL’s various franchises are black, and as Jeff Benedict noted in his book “Pros and Cons” – just like in the real world – the overwhelmingly majority of those arrested for major and minor offenses are black.

Two recently retired superstar receivers, Terrell Owens and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, are both dealing with predictable black problems despite their status of world-class athletes (child support payments for a deadbeat dad in Owens; domestic violence charges against Johnson).

It was Jason Whitlock, a corpulent black sportswriter for Fox Sports, who decided to throw himself into the murky waters of the Jovan Belcher story by writing a column blasting America’s gun culture; what Mr. Whitlock was unprepared to do in his story – quoted by Bob Costas on the Sunday night NBC telecast of “Football Night in America” – is point out that “off the field” problems in the NFL are almost always monopolized by black athletes.

As the New York Times noted in 2008 after New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg at a night club, the NFL does have a gun culture. It also has a thug culture, courtesy of its 69 percent black athletes.

But what if, removing the New England Patriots and their outstanding lineup of white athletes (which is only growing) from the equation, there was a player – perhaps the greatest quarterback in NFL history – who understood the negative influence that thug athletes can have to a team’s chemistry?

What if Jason Whitlock himself noticed this himself when he wrote of then Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning in 2010 [NFL Truths: Colts offense has white stuff, Fox Sports, 9-30-10]:

“From the we’re-not-supposed-to-mention-this file: It was fascinating watching Peyton Manning and his BYU offense destroy the Denver Broncos.

“The unwritten rule in sports writing/journalism is we’re only supposed to mention racial progress when it involves dark-skin minorities. Obviously, I don’t care about rules.

“With receiver Pierre Garcon sidelined with an injury, the Colts started and played nine white guys on offense pretty much all day. NFL rosters are nearly 70 percent comprised of African-Americans. What the Colts did was significant.

“For a day, the best offense in football was 82 percent white. Austin Collie, Garcon’s replacement, put a clown suit on the Denver secondary with precise route running and nifty moves after the catch. Some practice-squad kid, Blair White, performed a Collie impersonation when Collie was tired.

“Peyton Manning is the Larry Bird of this era. I mean that as high, high praise. I’m not accusing Manning or the Colts of any kind of racism. Bill Polian, Jim Caldwell (and Tony Dungy) have surrounded Manning with players who mirror his approach to the game.

“Race is not the determining factor.

“A willingness to prepare and shared values, I believe, are the determining factors.

I’m not going to get back into it today, but I’ve been writing for three years that baby-mama culture (no father in a child’s life) is going to cost African-Americans jobs in professional team sports. This summer, Ron English, the black head coach at Eastern Michigan, came under fire for admitting he’d prefer to recruit players who have fathers in their lives.”

The best offense in the history of the NFL might be the 2012 New England Patriots, led by quarterback Tom Brady. Throwing to a plethora of talented white receivers (Wes Welker, Rob Gronkowski, and Julian Edelman) and with criminally underused white running back Danny Woodhead, Brady offers NFL viewers the opportunity to deprogram from the decades of conditioning they have been exposed to: that only black athletes have the necessary “speed” and “athleticism” to participate in anything remotely considered ‘legitimate’ football.

But with Peyton Manning in 2012 as the quarterback of the Denver Broncos, something different, much different is happening. Four of his five top receivers are white (Eric Decker, Brandon Stokley, Jacob Tamme, and Joel Dreessen); the latter two are both tight-ends, signed on March 23, 2012 just days after Manning signed with the Broncos. A month later, the 36-year-old Stokley would sign with the team.

In August, two outstanding white veterans defenders – linebacker Keith Brooking and safety Jim Leonhard – would sign with the Broncos; a month later, center Dan Koppen – longtime center for Tom Brady – would sign with the Broncos.

The culture of the team changed to reflect that of Peyton Manning. Back in 2010, Heath Evans – a white fullback – was signed by New Orleans. Having played the prior few seasons with the whiter-than-average-NFL-franchise New England Patriots, he told the New Orleans Times-Picayune this:

“New Orleans Saints fullback Heath Evans has been in winning locker rooms, having played with the New England Patriots the past four seasons. Says Evans of the Saints, ‘I made a lateral move when I left New England. I didn’t take a step down.’

“Culture is defined as ‘the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group.’

“The culture of a football team is basically the collective attitude of the players in the locker room and on the practice field.

“Culture has been a trendy buzzword at Saints camp this offseason — organizational culture, locker room culture, team culture.

“Evans should know what a good locker room looks and feels like. He played the previous four seasons in New England, the model for positive locker-room relations.

“‘If you had to backtrack to one thing (in New England), it would be selflessness,’ Evans said. ‘You have some teams that are racially divided. You have some teams that are positionally divided. Some teams divided between offense and defense. Everyone has to buy in and be on the same page.’

“Nurturing such an environment in the ‘me generation’ can be difficult. If not managed properly, the wealth and fame associated with the NFL can be hazardous to a locker room’s cultural health.

“‘I believe the difference between winning and losing, between first and last place, is this much,’ Evans said, holding his thumb and index finger an inch apart. ‘Not every team has great leadership.’”
What if the difference between winning and losing in the NFL is increasingly becoming measured by… what percentage of your team actually possess impulse control (i.e., not black)?

What if Peyton Manning has figured this out, which might be the reason why Denver just signed Jacob Hester to a contract? A former LSU Tigers standout running back, the white Jacob Hester found himself a target of racial taunts in the majority black Southeastern Conference; one player asked why he wasn’t playing for the Air Force Academy in a game, a strange racial putdown considering the highly cerebral nature a candidate for appointment to the Air Force Academy a person must possess.

Must be why it’s one of the whitest Football Bowl Championship (FBS) series teams….
Peyton Manning, who has always been an on-the-field offensive coordinator, calling his own plays and then calling audibles into new plays based on defensive schemes, understands exactly what Heath Evans referred to about culture in the NFL.

He didn’t come back from a year layoff after neck surgery to play for an 8-8 team; he came back to win a Super Bowl. And, playing with players who possess the mental aptitude of teenagers (looking at you black America) isn’t the way to make this happen.

Just read this article about Brandon Stokley from the USA Today [Brandon Stokley knows it's good to be Peyton Manning's friend, 11-30-12]:

“When Brandon Stokley canceled his 10-year anniversary trip with his wife to spend a week in February with Peyton Manning, neither the wide receiver nor the quarterback could have imagined what would come next.

“How could they, back in February, have pictured that come November they’d be connecting for touchdowns during a run toward the playoffs with the Denver Broncos?

“It wasn’t for money (he signed a one-year deal for the veteran minimum), and it wasn’t to chase a title (he has two Super Bowl rings, one each with the Baltimore Ravens and Colts). Stokley wanted one more chance to play alongside Manning, in the city Stokley has adopted as home now that his kids are old enough to remember it.

“Stokley’s sales pitch obviously worked, with Manning picking the Broncos over Tennessee, San Francisco and Arizona. When voluntary workouts began in April, Manning helped bring Stokley back to the Broncos. Manning told Denver’s coaches what he saw from Stokley in their workouts together.

“The Broncos needed a slot receiver, and they needed help in teaching a young receiving corps about what it would take to play with Manning. As Stokley began working with the first-team offense in practice not long after he signed Soon it became clear that Stokley had come back to contribute, not just to be a mentor to Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas or a security blanket for Manning.

“‘Brandon is one of my favorite teammates of all time,’ Manning said. ‘For a guy his age to be able to keep his quickness is pretty rare for a wide receiver. He can be a matchup problem for teams.’”

You have to wonder if Stokley, like Peyton Manning and the Patriots white receiver Wes Welker, donated any money to Mitt Romney’s campaign too (Manning and Welker both gave Romney $5,000 each — the maximum amount)?

It’s hard to imagine what the NFL might look like were it not populated by players who are, to paraphrase Evans, “this close” to losing all control and being just another black criminal statistic, but instead by athletes like the ones Manning has chosen to surround himself with… well, maybe not so hard.

Tom Brady appears to realize the formula to success as well.

Americans have been so conditioned to believe that only black participation in a sport like football or basketball can qualify it is as “legitimate” that the sight of white athletes dominating on the Patriots or the Broncos is grounds for searching Google for stories like: “Is the Patriots Offense Racist”, “Are the Patriots Racist,” “Patriots White Offense Players.”

The real question should be: why do Americans tolerate watching a form of entertainment artificially dominated by the very people they do everything humanely possible to never have to call “neighbor”?

http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/12/peyton-manning-race-realist.html

‘Black sheep battle: Disgraced Penn State faces disgraced Ohio State today’ (Oct. 27). It’s a pattern.

The political class may be focused on Ohio to see how polls shift in the Presidential race. But there’s only one poll Ohioans care about: the Associated Press college football poll. The coach of their Ohio State University football team is the only man whose approval rating worries them all year around.

He’s Urban Meyer, whose salary of $4 million a year—an order of magnitude greater than the commander-in-chief of the United States military—is designed to inspire him to restore luster to one of the most profitable college football programs in America. (According to the Memphis Business Journal, Ohio State logged $63 million in revenue in 2011.)

After “Tattoo-Gate”—in which a number of black Ohio State football players traded their autographs and memorabilia for free tattoos, a violation of their amateur status—then head coach Jim Tressel, known as the “Senator” for his high approval rating in Ohio, was fired in 2011. Ohio State was placed on probation by the NCAA for three years.

Enter Urban Meyer, widely considered one of the top coaches in football. Having led the University of Florida to two national championships, Meyer mysteriously resigned after a lackluster 2010 season. One of the unstated reasons: the thug culture present during his tenure.

Meyer had recruited back-to-back all-black signing classes (2009 and 2010), at a school whose enrollment is less than five percent black male. (At least his 2008 recruiting class had one non-black player: the white kicker!)

Inevitably, Florida came under intense scrutiny for the off-field problems of Meyer’s black athletes. The Orlando Sentinel details their off-the-field arrests: A list of Florida Gators arrested during Urban Meyer’s tenure By Jeremy Fowler and Rachel George September 17, 2010. It’s three pages long and includes, besides drug and alcohol charges, aggravated stalking, felony burglary of an occupied dwelling, felony counts of burglary, larceny and obstruction of justice, felony domestic violence by strangulation, felony theft, aggravated assault, battery and use of display of a concealed weapon.

But don’t worry! The Gainesville Sun absolved the Gators—because players at the other almost all-black Southeastern Conference (SEC) teams like Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee were doing the exact same thing! [Are the Gators getting a bad rap on crime?, By Kevin Brockway Staff, June 14, 2009]

Here’s a tellingly ironic account of this year’s recent matchup between Meyer’s previous and current teams:

“Trash talking is as old as football itself. A player baiting another player with a taunt or threat is usually par for the course during any game, especially a game between rivals or with championship significance.

“So, it was no surprise that Monday’s Gator Bowl between Florida and Ohio State — two teams that have loved Urban Meyer — had a little more vitriol than usual. What was surprising was the type of caustic comments being said.

“Ohio State linebacker Tyler Moeller said Florida players hurled racial slurs at him throughout the game and that that sparked some of the chippiness during the 24-17 Florida win.

“‘They’re classless. That’s the way I’d put it,’ Moeller said, according to Marcus Hartman from Buckeye Sports Bulletin. ‘I’ve never seen more people swing at our players and call us racial slurs. I’ve never been called a ‘cracker’ more in my life than I have today. So I don’t really have much respect for them in terms of that but they’re a good team. They came out and outplayed us today.’

Buckeye linebacker calls foul on race-baiting Gators, Graham Watson, Yahoo! Sports January 3, 2012.

On April 9, 2012, the Sporting News published a devastating article reporting that Meyer told one of his potential black recruits to Ohio State not to attend Florida (whose roster was full of black players he recruited) because of “character issues” in the locker room:

“The uproar and controversy of Urban Meyer’s stunning recruiting coup at Ohio State settled in and Stefon Diggs, still on the Buckeyes’ wish list, was debating his future.

“Diggs, the second-highest rated wide receiver in the country, had narrowed his list of potential schools to Maryland, Florida and Ohio State. For more than a week following National Signing Day on Feb. 1, and before Diggs eventually signed with Maryland, Meyer relentlessly pursued Diggs.

“Multiple sources told Sporting News that Meyer—who won two national championships in six years at Florida and cemented his legacy as one of the game’s greatest coaches—told the Diggs family that he wouldn’t let his son go to Florida because of significant character issues in the locker room.

“Character issues that we now know were fueled by a culture Meyer created. Character issues that gutted what was four years earlier the most powerful program in college football.

“It was Meyer who declared the Florida program ‘broken’ at the end of his last regular season game in Gainesville in November of 2010. But why was it broken?

“’Over the last two years he was there,’ one former player said, ‘the players had taken complete control of the team.’”

[From Champs to Chomped: How Urban Meyer Broke Florida Football by Matt Hayes]

Does nobody get the disconnect here?

Recently, one of Urban Meyer’s Ohio State players, third-string quarterback Cardale Jones, went to Twitter to voice his frustration:

“Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS, Cardale Jones: Classes pointless, ESPN, 10-6-2012″

Mr. Jones makes an astute point: the black players who make up the majority of the rosters of schools like Meyer’s University of Florida, the SEC schools like Georgia and LSU, and other schools in the Big 12, ACC, and Pac-14, are only enrolled in school because they play football.

Meyer’s thug culture only existed because the University of Florida lowered academic requirements for its black athletes. Reportedly, football players scored 346 points lower than the school’s overall student body, larger than the difference in scores between typical students at the University of Georgia and Harvard University and the biggest gap in major college football. [College Athletes: Academic Performance: Behind the line on grades, by Mike Knobler, Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 28, 2008]

The mission of America’s elite universities should be to prepare top students to lead the nation. Instead, they serve to slowly seduce the students into tolerating black dysfunction—how else would we field a competitive football team?

Do you now understand why I have dubbed college football the “Opiate of America?”

But because coaches like Urban Meyer refuse to recruit white high school athletes, stories like that of the “character deficiencies” in the all-black locker room of Florida, the anti-white attitudes of the Florida players, grade falsification like the recent scandal at the University of North Carolina involving the black players and the Afro-American History Department, and the embarrassing frankness of Cardale Jones, represent the state of the college game in 2012.

The reality is simply this: black dysfunction will be tolerated as long as alumni of major universities continue to waste their weekends cheering on gladiatorial contests between student-athletes boasting names like Quinteze and De’Ante.

There’s one simple way to solve this: Urban Meyer is paid $4 million each year as the head of a non-profit organization.

That’s right, college football is “non-profit”!—meaning donations are tax-deductible.
These schools are no longer serving educational missions—as Cardale Jones honestly pointed out.

Let’s stop treating them as such.

Paul Kersey[Email him] is the author of the blog SBPDL, and has published the books SBPDL Year One, Hollywood in Blackface and Escape From Detroit, and Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White

http://www.vdare.com/articles/urban-college-football-no-longer-serves-educational-purpose-pull-tax-deductible-status

Angry White Fan here, and what am I angry about today? How about the poor level of play in the NFL. After watching a few games I can honestly say black football players suck. Not just one or two, not a few, but a lot. They are horrible. Maybe if White players were 80% of the league they would suck too, but they’re not. In fact almost ALL White players in the NFL are tremendous. But that’s what happens when you racially discriminate against one race in a sport.

It’s like baseball in the 1950s. The only blacks they let in were guys like Willie Mays and Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson. So you end up with guys from one group that are all good because it was so hard for others to make the cut. There weren’t hardly any marginal black players because they filled those spots with marginal White guys. That’s the NFL of today. Too many marginal black players because their competition, the good White players, are either ignored or purged.

So the White guys you end up with are guys like Jordy Nelson and Wes Welker. Just absolutely phenomenal athletic talents. Or guys like J.J. Watts and Clay Matthews. Completely dominating athletes. Are these guys flukes? Was Willie Mays a fluke? Heck no, and MLB got much blacker after him because the teams started looking for more talents like Willie Mays.

Are NFL teams looking for more Welkers or Nelsons? No. Why not? Because the whole football complex from pee-wee to the Pros has been set up as a make-work program for blacks. In high school the teachers are looking for anything that that they can find to extort black boys to: 1) come to school; 2) not be completely disruptive thugs; and 3) give them a way to graduate by setting up special programs to fake enough grades to get them through school.

Colleges want blacks to help with their cherished goal of diversity and the only way they can get black males to attend is by offering athletic scholarships. And the only way most black males COULD attend is on athletic scholarships because they change the rules for “athletes” by lowering the grade requirements.

The NFL is the next step on the rung of affirmative action hiring for black males. The league, in concert with the liberal media, creates the idea that blacks, and only blacks, can play certain positions. How do they get away with it? Well for a while they had a monopoly on certain information so they were able to lie and say that blacks dominate in pre-Draft workouts. Now that every bit of information about those workouts is widely known, it’s clear that White players perform as well and often better on all of those tests they designed to supposedly prove black athletic superiority.

They have been able to maintain the lie because the White fan base is made up of the same type of people that elect men like Obama to office. Fully brainwashed in the ways of white guilt and black victimhood, they never question why the faster White guy is cut when the coach says all he wants is “speed.” To help further the lie they come up with untestable qualities like hip wiggle. You would think that cone drills or shuttles would measure this, but that can’t be because White guys kick ass at those drills.

And they agitate, constantly agitate for more blacks at everything. Over and over in an endless series of whining and complaining that there’s not enough blacks at this or that. So the NFL is focused on getting more black QBs or more black centers, it’s like the rest of the crap that goes on in society. Black special interest groups and their white whore enablers keep pushing for more black this and more black that, but nobody — not a single dang person in a country of 330 million people — ever takes a public stand and says “what about more White men at running back or at cornerback?” No that can’t be done or you get ex-communicated. How long before you could go to jail for speaking that kind of truth to power?

So how many more dropped passes that hit a guy in the hands, how many more clumsy ass ball carriers tripping over the 30 yard line, how many dropped interceptions, how much more going out of bounds 1 yard shy of the first down, how many more badly timed personal foul penalties, will an Angry White Fan have to endure before the idiots at NFL Central realize their product is going to hell just so Mr. Richy Rich team owner can brag to his buddies at the country club that he’s in with da bruthas and not a “racist”?

Cameron Bryan

by Jimmy Chitwood.

“Speed kills.”

“Coaches look everywhere for talent.”

“The best players play.”

We’ve heard these platitudes so often they’ve become a mantra in the sports world, and fans have come to believe them as though they were inviolate truths. So what, then, does it mean if these doctrines are false? And if they are false, why would the high priests of America’s football religion continue to preach them?

I’ll leave it for another time to discuss the “why” of the issue, but I do want to briefly address (and discredit) the validity of the aforementioned credos.

Sprinting is perhaps the most primal of all physical endeavors. It is also the most easily measured. Our bodies are hardwired to run. But as with all other talents, some are more gifted with speed than others. We call those people “fast.”

Fortunately for so-called talent scouts, all it takes to quickly verify if someone is fast or not is a stopwatch and a given distance. Of course, it’s easy to obfuscate by considering the running surface, whether the runner was wind-aided, reaction time of the timekeeper, and other minutia, but a rudimentary assessment is incredibly easy. It becomes even simpler when athletes are being assessed at a particular location at the same time or are measured using the same criteria at different locales (for example, at “combines” or within a football team’s camp).

The simplicity in measuring such a visceral aspect of athletic ability is a large reason why scouts, coaches, the media, and fans have become besotted with the “40” (yard dash). The 40 measures straight-line speed over a relatively short distance, wherein all participants simply run as fast as they can. While it rarely relates to action during an actual football game, it does provide a baseline to compare players. It is a simple tool to determine who the “fast” athletes are.

And as we’ve all come to “know,” fast players are what coaches covet. Speed kills, after all. And by that doctrine, we all “know” that fast players are never cast(e) aside. Right?

So why, then, do so many fast players go unnoticed? Why is one fast player actively targeted by recruiters and another with the same speed (size, etc.) ignored?

The “Why?” is hard to answer, but with a bit of research it quickly becomes obvious that it is, indeed, quite common for (some) fast players to be overlooked.

The 40 has also become equated with “explosiveness,” or the potential of a player to make impactful plays on the field during a game. In addition to the 40, there are various other drills that coaches and scouts utilize to measure “explosiveness,” including the bench press, the vertical jump and broad jump, and various agility drills.

So, based on the mantra, it would seem obvious that a player who performs well on these drills would, in turn, be A) highly recruited, and B) given multiple opportunities to play. In fact, according to the mantra, coaches are so focused on looking for “explosive” players, that it would be nearly impossible to find a player who “slipped through the cracks” of their “exhaustive” talent search. Furthermore, it would be virtually unheard of to find a player who was recognized to be superb at the various “explosive” drills yet not given a chance to play … again, because the mantra dictates that speed is all-important and coaches will do anything to get it on the field (and so forth).

Yet, it is quite simple to find players who are completely overlooked by the so-called experts.

Take, for example, Cameron Bryan of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.

“Who?” you ask. Exactly.

Bryan is a senior back-up kicker. He is also an un-recruited walk-on. And after getting beat out of his kick-off job as a sophomore, he’s spent the past two seasons standing on the sideline.

Why is he relevant? Because according to the aforementioned mantra, Cameron Bryan’s story shouldn’t exist.

You see, the un-recruited, un-wanted Bryan is one of the fastest players on the Razorbacks roster, running the 40 in 4.4 seconds. That’s blazing fast.

He’s also the top-ranked player (that means he is the fastest) on the team in agility drills. That’s pretty impressive considering you have several “professional prospects” on the squad at the skill positions where speed and agility are at a premium.

“He’s a tremendous athlete,” Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson said. “When you look at him, you might not think that. But he’s on our top five board in agility and quickness every year. It’s kind of a running joke. He’s with all these receivers and specialists.”

Yet despite having ideal size (5-foot-10, 176-pounds), blazing speed, and incredible agility (change-of-direction is a necessary attribute for a defensive back), the Arkansas coaching staff has never considered Bryan a potential cornerback, a position for which the Razorbacks have been sorely lacking in talent for several years. (Arkansas is giving up over 300 passing yards per game to its opponents this year, and a former linebacker-turned-safety leads the team with 2 interceptions.)

And it’s not because Bryan is afraid to hit somebody. After tiring of wasting away on the sidelines, he begged head coach John L. Smith to at least let him cover kicks (he’d made seven tackles as a freshman kick-off man).

Since then, he’s flown down the field on kick-off coverage like a lightning bolt, showcasing the speed and agility that his teammates (but neither the coaches nor the unaware fans) have long appreciated. Smith admits that he hasn’t been surprised at Bryan’s (long overdue) success, since he said Bryan had been doing the same thing on the scout team for years …

Which begs the question, how is it that such a physically gifted athlete has been so thoroughly disregarded? As Wilson hinted at, perhaps it is because Bryan doesn’t qualify under yet another mantra … the aesthetic expectation, “He looks like an athlete.”

Despite his repeated demonstrations of elite speed and agility year after year, perhaps the Arkansas coaching staff turned a blind eye to his potential because Bryan doesn’t “look” fast … Perhaps he’s been denied opportunities for all these years because he doesn’t “look like an athlete.” Perhaps … but does the appearance of a fast time on a stopwatch care what you look like?

Perhaps it does, because this is what Bryan looks like (see the picture accompanying this article).

Cameron Bryan apparently doesn’t look athletic …

As it turns out, most every fast player who is ignored by recruiting “experts” and coaches looks an awful lot like Bryan. “Weird,” huh?

http://www.castefootball.us/forums/threads/15151-overlooked-White-speedsters

A former GM told me that while in a pre-draft meeting a few years ago they were talking about a white cornerback prospect. All the numbers added up to him being a potential 2nd or 3rd round pick. However, once the film went on in the room, the director (who is white) said, “wait, is this kid white? The area scout replied; “yes he is”. The director’s response was, “well then, he better be really special”. The result, the player went undrafted and landed on a practice squad.

For years, black quarterbacks have had an uphill battle with being stereotyped more as athletic runners versus smart pocket passers. Conversely, the same can be said for white receivers, running backs, defensive backs and even some defensive linemen. For about 98% of all white defensive linemen, the reports always read the same, “high effort guy, plays with a high motor, better run stopper than pass rusher”.

According to Dan Pompei’s scout talk article, even JJ Watt’s report had some of the same language. Dan makes a good point. He should have been considered to be the number one rated prospect in the draft, not a mid first rounder as everybody had him. You have to wonder, if he were black, would personnel men see him as more athletic and give him a higher draft grade? The irony that I love here is that Rick Smith, a black GM, may have had him rated higher than his peers.

You can also go back to Packers’ great DE Aaron Kampman’s reports: The reports I read all say the same thing “great kid, limited athletic ability as a pass rusher, straight line athlete, hard worker, high motor, effort guy, camp guy”. The Browns even had him as a conversion guy to the offensive line as a guard. Aaron had 54 sacks in 8 years with the Packers and went to 2 pro bowls.

The Raiders had a white running back named Vance Mueller in the early 90’s. Vance was undrafted, but could run a 4.3 forty and was the complete package as a running back. Vance led the raiders in rushing every preseason, was durable, smart, fast and had good hands. However, when the regular season rolled around he was buried in the depth chart and rarely got a chance to play. This is how it went and still goes for many white players coming into the NFL.

One veteran scout I spoke to brought up a great point. He said; “It starts in college”. When we go into a campus to evaluate players many of the white specialty players are described to us in the same way the scouting community writes them up. There seems to be a natural tendency to underplay white players athletic abilities and overplay their intelligence and efforts.” Another scouting director told me that;” he’d seen way too many promising black college QB’s get moved to DB or receiver before they ever got a chance to compete as a QB”. Whether it is conscientious or not, the stereotypes of color still play a huge part in the evaluation and placement of college players by both scouts and coaches.

Here are some more terms always associated with scouting reports of white players:

Wide receivers: Crafty, disciplined route runner, good hands, tough, quicker than fast, smart.
Defensive backs: The QB of the secondary, can line everyone up, in the box kind of guy, better against the run than pass, a little stiff in the hips.

One director did tell me that he thinks scouts are doing a better job at evaluating white wide receivers. The production and success of second round pick Jordy Nelson and undrafted Wes Welker has brought some attention to the position.

If I were a GM getting reports with the same old language like this I would fire any scouts who writes one. The evaluators who can leave skin color out (for black and white players) of their opinions and reports will help build a better team.

Maybe the NFL scouting community should take an idea from the show The Voice. Where the judges sit with their back towards the singer and just listen to their voice without seeing the contestant. It would be nice if we can take the color out of the process for both white and black players.

Former Broncos great Shannon Sharpe said best when he use to champion his teammate WR Ed Mccaffrey, “If Ed were black, he would have been a first round pick and one of the highest paid receivers in the league.”

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Can-JJ-Watt-change-the-common-perception.html

I do know how this ironic sequential syncronicity affected me personally, though I am in no sense a paradigmatic “X-Man.” In my adolescent mind, as a teenager in the ’80s, sex and certain death came to be inextricably intertwined in ways they had never before been associated in human history. To have sexual intercourse was to make oneself vulnerable to a dread plague that viciously ate away at your insides until you perished in horrific pain. You didn’t get better, and there was no cure.

Due to this grim set of circumstances, sexual abstinence assumed an allure for me that wasn’t merely motivated by a concern for physical health and well-being, but by plainly psychic considerations as well. For as much as we were always sternly lectured by our betters not to view the HIV virus as karmic retribution for moral misdeeds—i.e., the result of junkies, sexual perverts, and other “unclean” people reaping what they sowed as a result of their lifestyle choices—it was nevertheless hard to avoid drawing such primal inferences when one glimpsed the wasted-away visage and corpse-like form of some poor bastard enduring the final stages of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Of course, this reaction was severely overblown on my part. Not because AIDS wasn’t a terrible disease—it was, and it still is. But most of the noise we heard concerning HIV wasn’t so much concerned with encouraging compassion for its victims, but rather with politicizing their misery in order to agitate for social change. To this end, it became necessary for radical organizations like ACT UP to send out strident and often contradictory messages in an effort to “educate”— which is to say, indoctrinate—Middle Americans inclined towards more conservative sexual morays. “AIDS is not a gay disease,” the ACT UPers would loudly insist, while simultaneously attacking those who feared the possibility of transmission as latent “homophobes,” an implicit admission that homosexual contact did indeed correlate with incidences of HIV-positivity. And while widespread terror of contracting the virus was derided by activist-types as a loathsome byproduct of the hoi palloi’s shameful “ignorance,” these same activists weren’t above exploiting the common man’s supposedly unfounded fear in an effort to promote “safe sex,” that is, contraception, another brave new innovation of the post-1960s age which had always previously been regarded as a low and disreputable practice.

Thus, the occasion of the rise of a particularly devastating sexually transmitted disease, which if anything seemed like a pressing reason to refrain from non-monogamous sexual relationships, became for many a rallying cry for carrying forth the dictates of the Sexual Revolution, for pathologizing “repression” and declaring any aversion to deviance to be “hateful.” The prevalence of a virus largely transmitted through gay male sex became a reason, not to implore people to avoid gay male sex, but rather to insist that buggery be seen as a beautiful expression of love, in every way aesthetically and spiritually on par with heterosexual intercourse.

But in endlessly flogging their ideological hobbyhorses, the AIDS-insistent busybodies thoroughly overshot the mark. Back in ’86 or so, everyone seemed to be projecting that HIV would go mainstream, that soon we’d all know someone who’d be dying of it, that no discrimination would be made between heteros and homos when it came to who came down with it. In 1987, Oprah Winfrey informed her audience that one fifth of all heterosexuals would be dead from AIDS. Such an outcome has not transpired, at least not in the Western world.

Now, a decade and a half later, we seldom even hear anymore about this disease that was supposedly going to affect everybody’s lives in some mode or manner. In fact, it’s fair to say that people nowadays more often fear the costly ravages of a computer virus than the bodily depredations wrought by that pesky HIV bug. Certainly, people still contract HIV, and there remains no known cure, though medical treatments have improved through the years. But as Eric Cartman found out in a recent “South Park” episode, AIDS just isn’t a sexy illness anymore. The HIV-hype reached its zenith with the 1993 cinematic sanctimony-fest Philadelphia, featuring Tom Hanks as a sweet, saintly ailing poofter criminally wronged by a homophobic corporation; after that, the flamers’ disease more or less flamed out. Since the turn of the millennium, it’s pretty much been “AIDS Who?”

Today, we’re instead instructed to spend most of our time hatin’ on a totally different deadly illness—breast cancer.

In fact, although people still find various other types of tumors growing in other places on their bodies, it is exclusively mammarian malignancy that is granted the spotlight—an entire month, in fact, of nonstop press. During October, everything in sight is painted pink—the chosen color of feminine “empowerment,” I suppose—and a bevy of worn, weary “survivors” are regularly trotted out as exemplars of womanly courage and fortitude. I have nothing against women with breast cancer, of course; indeed, I wish them well. But do we really require pink newspapers delivered to our doorsteps, and do we really need to see professional football players wearing faggy-looking pink shoes and socks for an entire month, just to show we’re properly concerned for and in righteous solidarity with the afflicted?

And if we’re going to parade the victims around and sing them gushing praises, why the selective, patently exclusionary, celebration? Are people with lung, throat, eye, pancreatic, and testicular cancer not also suffering? Are they not also facing their difficulties with stout determination? Why have these inspiring victims not been their own months to be affirmed, lauded, and praised?

The answer, I suspect, has very little to do with cancer, and very much to do with the misandric calibration of the current era. Just as AIDS became a cause célèbre because it disproportionately afflicted gay men, at a time when the Zeitgeist-shapers wished to banish “heterosexism,” so breast cancer “awareness” has become a means of furthering the “Girls rule, boys drool” vibe of radical feminism, which disdains and aims to “deconstruct” masculinity. There’s nothing at all inherently wrong with women giving other women encouragement, but the fact that macho NFL linemen are now being made to wear pink should tell us something about the aims and objectives of the “Save the Tatas” campaign.

Surely there is a way to honor the sick that doesn’t resort to cheap posturing and politicizing. And surely there are sincere people in the “pink ribbon” movement who only want to see the development of a cure for a disease that affects thousands of families a year. But the hearty Zeitgeist-defier should recognize, and be leery of, massive media-driven, and obviously contrived campaigns to exploit his compassion for nefarious ends.

Brian Hartline

By Don Wassall.

Last Sunday, wide receiver Brian Hartline of the Miami Dolphins had the 16th most prolific receiving day in NFL history and the most ever by a Dolphin with 253 yards. He obtained that yardage on 12 receptions, or over 20 yards per catch, including an 80 yard touchdown reception.

For the season, Hartline leads the NFL in receiving yardage through 4 games with 455 yards on 25 receptions. For his pro career he has averaged just under 16 yards per catch, better than all but a few other receivers in the entire league.

Yet Hartline’s historic game generated mostly a stifled yawn from the corporate media. On the NFL Network, during Deion Sanders’ weekly “top ten players of the day” segment, Hartline not only wasn’t number one, he wasn’t on the list at all. On other highlight shows on the NFL Network and ESPN, Hartline’s great day was politely noted but hardly featured prominently. Yet his 253 yards receiving is comparable in rarity to a quarterback throwing for 500 yards in a game. Now imagine if a black quarterback had thrown for 500 yards last Sunday. It’s not a stretch to say that not only would Deion Sanders have been dancing for joy and naming him his top player of the day, every other sports show and media outlet would likewise have been heaping him with praise.

But White receivers don’t fit into the Caste System paradigm. Oh, some are tolerated and a few undeniable stars like Wes Welker and Jordy Nelson are given grudging respect, unlike cornerback and running back, which have been artificially engineered to be black only in perpetuity despite the ever shrinking pool of capable black athletes in the U.S, but the league and its media publicists clearly want wide receiver to remain a “black thang” even though if college football recruiting and the NFL were color blind, White receivers would be the norm and blacks the exception.

And many of those media outlets that did recognize Hartline’s great game felt obliged to utlize the obligatory racist qualifiers one almost always finds when it comes to the treatment of White football players. In Hartline’s case it was “craftiness” and not his obvious speed that accounted for his performance. Michael Lombardi pontificated that, “Dolphins wide receiver Brian Hartline was great against the Cardinals, proving with his 253 receiving yards and 80-yard score that crafty route running is more important than blazing speed.” California Sports News wrote after Hartline’s big game against the Raiders earlier in the season: “Crafty fourth-year receiver Brian Hartline used his cutbacks to slice up Raiders cornerbacks Pat Lee and Joselio Hanson for career highs of nine catches and 111 yards,” while Phinsinsider.com attributed Hartline’s 80 yard TD catch and run on Sunday to a defender deciding to jog on the play: “Safety Adrian Wilson begins to move toward Hartline, but seems to be jogging and watching to see if the receiver catches the ball, rather than running full speed to make a play.”

In fact, like all other White receivers who overcome the tremendous obstacles that exist to filter out star high school White receivers from first being recruited by a major college program and then getting a fair opportunity in the NFL, Hartline has always been falsely portrayed as a “possession receiver” who lacks speed and play-making ability. In Hartline’s case he was a state champion hurdler in the state of Ohio in the 110 meters and 300 meters, and nearly broke the state record in the 300 meters.

But the media and the vast majority of football fans believe that no White players are as fast as even the slowest black players, even though measurables consistently show that there are a large number of White players who are very fast and very quick, and who can also jump like kangaroos. The reality is that there are far more White football players in the United States than there are black ones, and even if blacks on average are slightly faster straight line runners over a short distance, there are still plenty of white players who are also fast, not to mention second to none when it comes to work ethic, hand-eye coordination, intelligence, strength and stamina, ability to sublimate selfishness for the betterment of the team, etc.

Congratulations to Brian Hartline, who has been denigrated non-stop by both the media and many fans ever since being drafted by the Dolphins in 2009. Nothing would be sweeter than for him to finish among the top receivers in the NFL in 2012.

The headline read, “Weisman listed as starting running back… for now.”

Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz echoed the sentiments afterwards, “He’s a contrast to the other guys that we have carrying the football. So you know, would he be our go-to-guy, our predominant back? I don’t know. Only time will tell.”

Questions abounded about whether Mark Weisman could actually be a “playmaker” running the football, while the “experts” insisted that he was really just a “fullback,” that he was a short-term, emergency fill-in, and that he was built to be a blocker. Or maybe he should be a linebacker, despite his impressive performance at tailback.

Ferentz admitted that, “He certainly showed some things out there competitively, and he brings a different tempo, if you will, running the football than everybody else. That was not scripted, I can assure you. But he runs tough. And we didn’t have any choice Saturday, but yeah, you just never know until guys get on the game field and perform.”

These are the sentiments regarding the player who, according to Stats Inc., is the first Hawkeye to rush for more than 300 yards and score 6 rushing touchdowns in a two-game span since 1997 (Tavian Banks).

That’s right. The first in 15 years.

And that’s also right. The player who did it was only given the chance because the coaching staff had no other choice.

This is the story of Mark Weisman. But even more so, this is the story of the Caste System.

The player who has performed so brilliantly as a tailback for the Hawkeyes the past two weeks was not offered a scholarship to play at Iowa. Nor was he considered a potential tailback, at least, not until every “real tailback” on the Iowa roster was unavailable. Literally seven (7!) other tailbacks were tried before Weisman got his opportunity: Marcus Coker (the 2011 starter), Mika’il McCall, and DeAndre Johnson were off the team by the time fall camp started. Jordan Canzeri and Barkley Hill went down with major knee injuries. Michael Malloy was ill for the Northern Iowa game and couldn’t go. Damon Bullock started the game against Northern Iowa, but he was knocked out (pun!) with a concussion. Greg Garmon was injured shortly thereafter. With nowhere else to turn, Iowa was forced to turn to Weisman.

And that is where the legend of Mark Weisman began. But his story began long before that…

A three-year starter at Stevenson High (Chicago), Weisman was a first-team all-state running “fullback,” rushing 153 times for 1,657 yards (that’s nearly 11 yards-per-carry) and 22 touchdowns as a senior. Despite the gaudy numbers, tremendous size (6-feet, 225-pounds), and a head coach who told everyone how good the running back was, Weisman only had one Division One scholarship offer coming out of high school. That’s right. Just one. His high school head coach was stunned that schools weren’t lining up to sign his phenom. Obviously he is not familiar with how the Caste System works.

Iowa said he could come as a walk-on, if he wanted to. But they had plenty of “real” talent in their backfield, so the Hawkeyes weren’t sweating it when Weisman accepted the scholarship to play for Air Force.

Despite his terrific work ethic and willingness to play fullback, his “natural” position, Weisman didn’t fit in at the Academy, where he admits that he was sleeping on the floor because he couldn’t make his bed to regulations. So, with no hard feelings, he decided to go where his heart had always wanted to be: Iowa.

As an unheralded, virtually unwanted walk-on, there were no promises that he’d get to play. But all Weisman needed was an opportunity.

He began making an impression when playing on the scout team. Hitting like a hammer and routinely showcasing the ability that garnered all those high school accolades, his teammates and coaches began to take note of his physical prowess. His work in the weight room became the stuff of legend, and by the beginning of his sophomore season (with his weight up to 235 pounds) he had earned the starting fullback job. Well, sort of. He was listed as a co-starter that didn’t actually start.

Still no scholarship, though. And still no indication that the coaches knew they had a high-powered juggernaut ready and waiting to run with the ball. They believed (wrongly) that they had seven better players in front of him.

And that is why the Caste System is so difficult to overcome. “Evaluating” “talent” is largely a subjective business, and the “eye of the beholder” sees what it wants to see. That is the reason certain athletes who put up huge numbers in high school but run a pedestrian forty time with pedestrian agility times are still considered “plenty fast” and potential “playmakers” because they are bursting with “upside,” while other athletes who put up equally huge numbers while running faster forty times and superior agility times are still somehow “too slow” or “too stiff” or “don’t have upside.” When coaches expect to see something, they see it … even if it isn’t true. That is why when collegiate scouts and coaches looked at Weisman they saw a potential “blocking fullback” instead of a potential “power tailback.”

You see, Weisman is a White kid playing a “Black position.”

It is obvious that those collegiate scouts and coaches ignored the easily-verified fact that the virtually unrecruited Weisman’s physical size and speed were very similar coming out of high school to highly-recruited Michigan State tailback (and Doak Walker candidate) Le’Veon Bell, who runs with a very similar powerful style. Additionally, Weisman’s production was similar and his big-play numbers were actually superior to the highly recruited Bell. But despite these verifiable facts, not a single “talent evaluator” considered Weisman to be a potential contributor at tailback.

Not even the Iowa coaching staff, who are now being forced to play him, considered him to be a playmaker with the ball in his hands.

You see, Bell is Black, while Weisman is obviously White.

Yet, somehow, Weisman is now running for huge numbers. In fact, Weisman, the unwanted sophomore, is second in the Big Ten in rushing (and rushing touchdowns) despite only carrying the ball in a little over a game-and-a-half. Just imagine what kind of numbers he could be putting up if he had “real” talent …

Or is their more to the story? After all, it is quite obvious that the hard-running Weisman is a gifted running back.

In his first start at tailback, he ran for 217 yards and 3 more touchdowns on 27 carries. His huge day (and that whopping 8-yards-per-carry average) was lost amidst the sting of Iowa’s upset loss, but it’s clear that his ability to make plays with the ball in his hands is so obvious that only the blind can’t see it. So why couldn’t all those so-called talent scouts and Iowa coaches see it before now?

The answer is simple. No one is as blind as those who don’t want to see.

Perhaps Ferentz summed it up best after Weisman’s day against Central Michigan: “We didn’t know how nimble he would be, how athletic he would be, how he would be at making the reads and the cuts you have to make,” Ferentz said. “That was our thought process a couple of weeks ago.”

That’s because if you don’t think a White kid can run the ball, then you will never give him a chance … unless, of course, you have seven “real” tailbacks go down and you don’t have any other choice.

In his second full game as the starting tailback (and second-and-a-half as the featured runner), Weisman ran for 177 yards (averaging 8.4 yards-per-carry) and one touchdown, en route to helping Iowa to a much-needed win. Three games ago, he was a sort-of-starting fullback, whom the Hawkeye coaching staff considered worthy of nothing more than road-grading for the “real” running backs.

In the three games since the coaches were forced into playing him at tailback, Weisman has run for 507 yards and 7 touchdowns.

But instead of admitting that his staff (and collegiate scouts everywhere) made a colossal mistake in the evaluation of Weisman’s ability, Ferentz continued to speak about the Hawkeye Hammer with poorly hidden dismay.

“After one game, you’re kind of like, ‘Hmmm, hope I’m seeing it right,’” Ferentz said of Weisman, who has topped 100 yards and scored at least one touchdown in three consecutive games as the “emergency” tailback. “Then after two, you start thinking, ‘This guy might not be bad.’ After three games, I think a lot of us are starting to think, ‘Maybe this guy is a running back.’ His fullback days may be numbered. He may be retiring from that spot.”

With “evaluation” and “coaching” like that, one wonders if a White player will ever be considered good enough to be a legitimate tailback.

Additionally, one laughingly supposes that “naturally,” Ferentz would say the same things about black power tailbacks like Ron Dayne, Jerome Bettis, Marcus Allen, or Jim Brown, who apparently all should be incredibly thankful they aren’t White and didn’t play for Iowa.

Ed McCaffrey

by Paul Kersey

In trying to figure out when the shift from majority white teams to majority Black teams happened in college football, I picked up Bruce Feldman’s book ‘Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment. Detailing the recruitment of primarily inner-city Black athletes from Broward and Miami Dade County in the 1980s, and the unleashing of these individuals from social-economically disadvantaged backgrounds (and the culture they came from— an extension of Blackness) on the nation, we learn that it would be white society that would be forced to adapt – acclimate – to the manner of style of these athletes. On p.118 – 119 of ‘Cane Mutiny, Feldman discusses the braggadocio of boxer Muhammad Ali and the repercussions of the unleashing the modern Black athlete:

“The threats of Ali’s psychological ploys and his flamboyance, though, were never so tightly intertwined again. All the lines were blurred. Still the spirit had already spilled out of the bottle. The dancing and the styling that often get derided as showboating today have a larger meaning, some say. That it is about freedom and control. Ali’s style was axiomatic for the black athlete – especially coming from a heritage where as slaves they were allowed no identity. And ever after slavery was abolished blacks were still relegated to second-class status right up to the Ali era. This, the way ‘they’ perform, is a by-product of that, said USC professor Todd Boyd, author of Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity.

“‘Ali was saying, ‘I’m not just gonna beat. I’m gonna humiliate you,’ and that come back to sports being much more than just sports for the black athlete, Boyd said, ‘because it’s not just about winning, it’s about winning with style. People always get this twisted, but it’s real important for black athletes to be stylish so they can define themselves. It’s like telling your opponent that, for instance, you are superior, and for a people who come from an environment where they don’t have much to cling to or don’t have things that they can call their own, this is something you completely control. That’s huge.’

“For a generation that identity often has been tied into basketball, aka ‘the city game,’ which has been made a staple of the hip-hop world, in large part due to its playground hoops artistry and showmanship, but in reality, football operates on another level. As Luther Campbell, the notorious Miami-based rapper of 2 Live Crew fame, put it, football, because of its physical nature, digs even deeper into man’s psyche. ‘Football showed we could rise above the slave mentality, the segregation, and be who we want to be,’ he said. ‘This game is our therapy. We can come out to the field and leave all our problems behind. It’s therapeutic. While we’re out here, we don’t care about they fuck us over and everything. Football is all we got, man. They can’t take this shit from us. We do own this game. I mean, y’all can take whatever the fuck you want to take from us – our land, our housing, our jobs, everything, man. But we got our pride and we got our dignity. We might not have ever had any leader to lead us to the promised land, but at least we got our football, and y’all aren’t gonna take that from us.’

“‘Down here in Miami, football is like a rite of passage. It’s even more so like that now because we have a reputation to uphold as the best football players. It’s mandatory that we hold that down.’”

The success of Black athletes at Miami and other schools convinced other schools to drop all pretenses of recruiting white athletes (since Black athletes were obviously superior, right Barry Switzer?); some schools dropped their traditions and began to completely cater to Black athletes through the assimilation of Black culture in the style of uniform the team wore [How Does Oregon Keep Winning? Is it the Uniform?, Michael Kruse, Grantland, 8-30-2011]; most schools just completely dropped the recruitment of white athletes, with the belief that fielding a team of all-Black athletes gave you a competitive advantage over those with “slow White players.”

Jeff Pearlman, the same writer who would throw Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker under the bus in a 1999 Sports Illustrated article, wrote Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty. Jimmy Johnson coached at the University of Miami before he went to the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and Pearlman wrote on p. 34-35:

“The Hurricanes of 1985 were brash, bold, and dominant. They went 9-1 through the first ten games and would compete the regular season with a November 30 home matchup against Notre Dame

“… the Hurricanes humiliated their once-proud visitors their once-proud visitors, 58-7. The nationally televised gamed was a coming-out party for the “new” Hurricanes. Miami’s taunted and strutted, trash-talked and end-zone danced.

“From that day forward, the Miami Hurricanes were no longer another collegiate football team. They were thugs. Hoodlums. In an era when many universities still instructed their coaches to recruit black players but not that many black players, [Miami head coach Jimmy] Johnson prowled the state of Florida seeking out great athletes, race be damned. “Jimmy got us,” said Brett Perriman, an African-American and former Hurricane receiver. “He understood what it takes to win.”

“As long as his players attended classes, showed up on time to practice and games, and dominated the opposition, he could not care less how they carried themselves. At, say, Notre Dame or UCLA or Florida State, black players were asked to conform to a white society. At Miami, white society would conform to the players.”

White society would be forced to acclimate to the underclass Black culture. The results haven’t been pretty.

The braggadocios style of athleticism displayed by Black athletes made the straight-laced white athletes look square in comparison. Just ask record-setting Duke University white wide receiver Conner Vernon, who grew up a huge Hurricanes fan [Miami native Conner Vernon took his talents to Durham

Vernon, never on his beloved Miami Hurricanes’ radar, grew into a record-breaking receiver at Duke, Charlotte Observer, 8-27-2012]:

“’I was a die-hard Canes fan,” Vernon said. “Going to the Orange Bowl all the time, before they moved to Sun Life Stadium, it was a lot of fun. A lot of good memories in that stadium, saw a lot of football games in that stadium.’

“Shane Vernon, who received offers from FCS or Division II schools, has another theory.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/08/27/3483168/miami-native-vernon-took-his-talents.html#storylink=cpy

“’I knew the stereotypes and stigmas that were in football,” he said. “I got to learn it the hard way. It’s an uphill battle, and you have this white boy stigma. It’s always there, no matter how good you are, what you do, it will always be there, so you’ve just got to stand out that much more.’

“Vernon stood out during spring football before his senior year. He was named the sleeper of the Under Armour/Scout combine after he ran a 4.41-second 40-yard dash.’”

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/08/27/3483168/miami-native-vernon-took-his-talents.html#storylink=cpy Vernon lacked the “swagger” or “style” — the Blackness — mandatory for Rivals or Scout.com to heap lavish (if not homoerotic) praise upon his attributes as a high school college prospect. But he’s not the only white athlete to be put in this same scenario.

New England Patriots white wide receiver Wes Welker has revolutionized the “slot” receiver position in the NFL. He received one scholarship offer from Texas Tech (where another NFL white receiver, St. Louis Rams Danny Amendola also excelled) and has become such a sensation that virtually every white receiver is compared to him. Including Cole Beasley, a Southern Methodist University receiver who went undrafted in 2012′s NFL draft and is competing for a roster spot with the Dallas Cowboys:

“Cole Beasley played it cool when asked about the spectacular catch he made over cornerback Teddy Williams on a deep ball Thursday.

“’That’s just what you have to do in this league,’ Beasley said. ‘(Kyle) Orton put it on the money. That’s all I can say about that one.’

“We’ll say a little bit more.

“It was the kind of catch that indicates that Beasley, an itty-bitty undrafted receiver out of SMU, might be more than just the stereotypical, short, white slot guy. He lined up outside, got open deep against a former NCAA sprint champion and made a twisting, leaping grab of a pass that was thrown above his outside shoulder.”

One current NCAA white receiver, junior Michael Bennett of the University of Georgia, has come to embrace the “white receiver stereotype,” using the lack of interest he received from college recruits as motivation to succeed [Bennett breaking out: Georgia receiver turns heads with long TD catch,David Paschall,Thursday, September 20, 2012, Chattanooga Times Free Press]:

“Georgia’s passing game is clicking so well these days that Michael Bennett may have shed his label as a possession receiver.

“Bennett became the third different 100-yard receiver for the Bulldogs in as many weeks last Saturday when he hauled in four Aaron Murray passes for 110 yards in a 56-20 rout of Florida Atlantic. The most meaningful was a 67-yard touchdown late in the half that blew the game open, and it was the longest reception of Bennett’s college career by 35 yards.

“‘I’m a white guy, but you’ve got to show them different,’ a smiling Bennett said this week after adding ‘deep threat’ to his repertoire.

“The 6-foot-3, 204-pound redshirt sophomore from the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta is Georgia’s leading receiver with 17 catches for 265 yards and two touchdowns. Seniors Tavarres King and Marlon Brown are next in line, with King tallying 211 yards on 10 receptions and Brown amassing 150 yards on 11 catches.

“‘Kris Durham put me under his wing when he was here, and that was really cool,’ Bennett said. ‘A white guy teaching another white guy how to play receiver in the SEC. He showed me how to carry myself, so I owe a lot to Kris and to A.J., who is a down-to-earth guy. He was showing me by his actions on the field every day.’

Bennett admits arriving at Georgia with a chip on his shoulder. He was very productive as a redshirt freshman, starting four games a year ago and compiling 32 catches for 320 yards and five touchdowns.

“Yet he averaged only 10 yards a catch, hence the possession receiver tag that existed until last weekend.

“‘He hates that label, because he’s a kid who can move,’ Murray said. ‘You saw it the other night when he split the safety and the corner and took it for 70. Their DBs had speed, but he separated and showed what he had.’”

Kris Durham, Bennett’s white receiver mentor at UGA, was drafted by the Seattle Seahwawks in 2011 (though he was cut in 2012). Both players lack the “swagger” that Miami’s players have. ESPN’s David Ching dared write an article with the title “Notebook: Bennett proving he belongs”; as if to say that Bennett being a white wide receiver was an automatic liability that disqualified him from being taken seriously on the football field:

“Michael Bennett knows there is something that separates him from other players at his position. He jokes about it all the time.

“The Georgia sophomore realizes that as a Caucasian wide receiver at a big-time college football program, he is like a living, breathing four-leaf clover — extremely rare — but he has also been a good-luck charm for the Bulldogs thus far.

“Bennett leads the Bulldogs with 265 receiving yards and, among the SEC’s top 15 players in receiving yards per game — he ranks fifth with 88.3 — he is the only one who is not African-American.

“’I’ve proved myself throughout my whole life, being a white guy playing a black man’s position. It’s just the nature of how it is,’ Bennett said with a grin. ‘It’s not racist or anything, it’s just the way it is. I feel like I’ve always had a chip on my shoulder in high school and then coming here. No one’s really respected me. I remember going in 1-on-1s and no one wanted to go against me because they didn’t want to get burned by a white guy.’

“Bennett regularly has fun with the subject of race, frequently joking that his coaches require him to block downfield for the other receivers because he’s white or that he learned how to function as a token white receiver in the SEC from Kris Durham, who was a senior at Georgia during Bennett’s first season in the program.

“Bennett is not exaggerating, however, about players testing him or underestimating him because of his race, senior receiver Tavarres King said. Bennett said opponents make racial comments to him “all the time” and King said some teammates even gave him a rude welcome after he arrived at Georgia.

“’When he first got here, our DBs just kept trying him all the time, hitting him,’ King said. ‘Not unnecessary, but they wouldn’t hit me like that. If I had the ball going down the sideline, they wouldn’t just tee off on me, but they’d do him like that. We kind of made a joke out of it, like, ‘”Yeah Bennett, it’s because you’re white.’” He just embraced it. He’s been funny with it.’

“It helps that Bennett is having the last laugh. Following his career-best 110 receiving yards last weekend against Florida Atlantic, teammates and opponents alike realize that regardless of race, Bennett is a legitimate weapon in the passing game. Maybe even a good enough weapon to advance beyond the college game, as Durham did.

“Reminded that the list of white impact receivers in the NFL is also short, King still said Bennett might one day join the likes of New England’s Wes Welker and Green Bay’s Jordy Nelson in the pros.

Have you ever read an article where a Black PhD. candidate in astrophysics is lauded for proving that he belongs? No, of course not.

What about another SEC receiver, the current all-time leader in touchdown receptions at the University of Florida Chris Doering? A walk-on to the Gator team, Doering was the star receiver for Florida from 1992-1995, catching 31 touchdowns on 149 receptions (2,107 yards). Not bad for a white receiver that received no scholarships offers coming out of college ['The Ultimate Success Story' : That's What Florida Coach Steve Spurrier Calls Chris Doering's Journey From Walk-On to Star Receiver, Los Angeles Times, by Chris Dufresne, 12-31-1995]:

“Getting to Florida consumed Doering, taking ‘total time, thought and effort.’
He overcame more rejection than a 17-year-old should: the Gator door that snapped shut in his face, the recruiting calls that never came, the graduate assistant who laughed when Doering’s high school coach dropped off a highlight film.

“How many times can a kid cry into his pillow?

“There was a spite-filled tryout with hated rival Florida State–the chance to stick it back in Florida’s face–before Doering came to his senses at a Florida-Florida State baseball game in Gainesville.

“‘Florida State was doing that little [tomahawk] chop thing,” Doering said,’ and I realized that was something I had grown up hating and something I really didn’t want to be a part of.’

“Doering was born a Gator on May 19, 1973. He was raised by Gator graduates, who spoon-fed him Gator lore.

“As if by osmosis, at an early age, he even started to resemble a former Gator, receiver Cris Collinsworth.

“‘I used to brag about it when I was younger,’ Doering said.

“Florida Coach Steve Spurrier calls Doering the ‘ultimate college football success story,’ but it wasn’t as though Spurrier ever paid a recruiting visit.

“Considered too slow, too skinny, and not of Florida ilk, Doering has persevered to become one of the Gators’ all-time great receivers.

“This season, he has caught 70 passes for 1,045 and 17 touchdowns. His 149 career receptions are the fourth most in Florida history, 29 more than Collinsworth totaled in the late ’70s.

“Doering’s 31 touchdown receptions are a Southeastern Conference record.

‘If I was any good at all, I’d probably have 60,’ Doering joked recently.

“While he was the self-proclaimed ‘skinny white dude’ at Gainesville’s P.K. Yonge High School, Doering made all-state as a senior, good enough credentials, he thought, to warrant consideration from his beloved Florida.

“‘I didn’t consider myself a longshot,’ Doering said. ‘I thought I had the ability to play at a major Division I school, but a lot of other coaches didn’t see it the same way.’

“The recruiting season came and went, and Doering was left standing at the mailbox.

“‘The low point in my recruitment was the entire recruitment,’ he said. ‘It was something I should have known. I wasn’t getting many calls or letters. I kept thinking sooner or later the Gators would come through and sign me late, but that didn’t happen. It was something I should have seen coming, but I really didn’t allow myself to see it coming.’

“Doering, 6 feet 4, was painfully thin and his 40-yard tim e of 4.9 had him rubber-stamped for Division III.

“But he never gave up hope of playing at Florida.”

Doering, a self-professed “slow white guy” who had a 4.9 40-yard time in high school, received no scholarship offers and was a walk-on to the Gator team goes on to being one of the most productive receivers in Florida history, at a time when Steve Spurrier’s ‘fun and gun’ was revolutionizing the passing game in college game.

What about a white guy who actually had some speed?

Bill Flowers, played football at the University of Mississippi in the early part of the 2000s. A high school standout at receiver, he was immediately labeled a “possession” receiver at Ole Miss, a synonom almost exclusively mandated for white receivers [Bill Flowers Builds on Family Legacy, BP Sports, 9-3-2004]

“It’s OK if you don’t give Bill Flowers a second look. Opposing cornerbacks don’t. Preseason football publications don’t. Shoot, even his classmates don’t.

“Well, they don’t until he makes a clutch one-handed snag, or roll is called and fellow students whip their heads toward the 6-foot-1, 193-pound Ron Howard impersonator and think, or even say, ‘You don’t look like the Bill Flowers on the football field.’

“It’s just further proof that it’s not as easy as it looks to cover Bill Flowers, on or off the field.

“Add to all that the possession receiver label he’s been unfairly stuck with, and it would seem Flowers has a lot to prove this senior season. But he doesn’t. He’s already proven to himself what and who he is, and that’s all he cares about.

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You see, we’ve been conditioned to view white athletes as automatically slower, their presence on the football an obvious handicap to the team that dares suit them up and put them on the field. Only vociferous, boisterous, heavily-tattooed Black athletes fit the mold of a modern athlete. Just ask former NFL receiver (and a walk-on in college, just like Green Bay Packer Jordy Nelson) Patrick Jeffers. He put a 1,000+ yard receiving season in 1999, but his career was short by injuries afterward. It almost never happened because of the legacy of Black athletes at The U [New Cowboys Receiver Makes Big Impression, AP, 12-4-1998]

“Jeffers already has the tag of looking like former Denver teammate Ed McCaffrey.

“‘All tall white guys get thrown in that same category,’ Jeffers joked. ‘I have some size and I’m a little faster than most people probably think. As long as defenders think I’m slow, maybe I can run by a few of them.’

“He added he was no speed burner.

“‘I kept thinking he (Hitchcock) was going to catch me,’ said Jeffers, who was timed at 4.53 seconds in the 40 at the NFL combine.

“Jeffers was a walk-on in college at the University of Virginia and caught 108 passes for 1,785 yards and 15 touchdowns. He grew up in Fort Worth as a big Dallas fan.”
4.53 is impressive speed and a solid time for a productive NFL receiver. Just ask Jerry Rice. And whose this “Ed McCaffrey” fellow that Jeffers was compared to? [White Lightning;With no pomp and precious little padding, the Broncos' deceptively fast Ed McCaffrey has become the NFL's unlikeliest star wide receiver, Sports Illustrated, 11-30-1998]:

“He’s a goofy-looking white guy in a world of hip-hop flash, and that makes Ed McCaffrey one heck of a target. On Sundays the Denver Broncos’ wideout subjects his nearly padless body to continuous punishment. On Mondays he reads rip jobs in the press about his supposed lack of athletic ability. But nothing is as daunting to him as the first practice day after he has had his shock of strawlike brown hair trimmed, a task the man who ranks third in the AFC in receiving yards entrusts to Supercuts. ‘I have a strong relationship with the people there,’ McCaffrey says. ‘They’ve tried out a lot of techniques on me.’ Not only is McCaffrey an affable lab rat; he often shows up at the Broncos’ facility looking like one. On a recent Wednesday his newly trimmed, uncombed ‘do caused a locker room uproar.

“‘What’d you tell ‘em, ‘Screw my s— up’?’ John Elway intoned.

“‘Nice bowl,’ backup quarterback Bubby Brister chimed in over the laughter. ‘Hope they didn’t charge you for that.’ No prominent NFL player has munched as much humble pie as McCaffrey. During his eight-year career he has been kicked off a team bus for impersonating a player, ordered to pick up towels by a locker room janitor and laughed out of a golf tournament filled with NFL players after he shot a sterling 155. But if you really want to see embarrassment, check out the body language of a defensive back who has just watched the 6’5″, 215-pound McCaffrey beat him for a big gain. ‘You’ll see their heads slump to the ground every time he scores,’ says Rod Smith, the Broncos’ other starting wideout.

“It’s the same look that NBA players gave Larry Bird as he rose to stardom in the early ’80s: the I-can’t-believe-I-just-got-burned-by-this-white-dude face. ‘That’s just a big old ego thing, to be shamed because a guy like Ed beat up on you,’ says Shannon Sharpe, Denver’s All-Pro tight end. ‘But there’s reality and there’s perception, and people are starting to notice Ed for the wrong reason: because he’s a big white guy and not because he’s an unbelievable player. He’ll probably be the first white receiver to go to the Pro Bowl since Steve Largent. At some point the guy’s got to get some credit.’

“The underlying assumption, of course, is that white guys—especially large, long-striding receivers such as McCaffrey—are slow. McCaffrey can handle immeasurable grief about his hair, unhip wardrobe and nervous neck twitches, but make a crack about his speed and he’s more defensive than Calista Flockhart. It’s a reaction provoked by years of jabs, including one by a Giants Weekly writer who said he’d ‘seen better moves by Ironside’ and another mat appeared in a 1996 SI article suggesting that McCaffrey ‘should be an Amway distributor by now, he’s so slow.’

‘If you’re doing an interview with McCaffrey, speed kills. “‘re you going to rip Ed for being slow again, or do you plan on writing the truth for a change?’ his wife, Lisa, asks as she bounces through the kitchen of their house a few miles south of the Broncos’ facility. While giving constant chase to their two sons—Max, 4, and Christian, 2—Lisa gets off the best lines of the interview. Noting that her father, sprinter David Sime, graced SI’s cover in 1956, Lisa riffs, ‘That’s why Ed and I got together—so we could breed fast white guys.’

“Shortly before the ’91 NFL draft, Ed says, he ran consecutive 4-38 40s that were timed by the San Diego Chargers. Though McCaffrey never was a full-time starter with the New York Giants, who took him in the third round of the draft, he led the team in receptions in his second year, with 49. His aw-shucks appearance also made him a primary target off the field. He was routinely denied access to the team bus by drivers who didn’t believe he was a player. ‘Phil Simms and Lawrence Taylor would tell the driver they’d never seen me before and make me wait outside for five minutes,’ McCaffrey says.

“Once at Giants training camp, McCaffrey was the last player in the locker room, and a janitor approached him and began screaming, ‘Pick up those damn towels!’ When the shocked McCaffrey didn’t respond, the janitor ordered him out of the room.

The “goofy looking white guy”… this is what we call ‘conditioning’ of the masses to believe that only one type of athlete is legitimate on the football field (or at certain positions, like receiver). And it ain’t white guys… it’s the type of athlete that Miami exclusively recruits, leaving athletes like Vernon on the outside of the program looking in. Back to McCaffrey [There's Been Nothing Trivial About Mccaffrey's Performance Two For The Show, Boston Globe, 1-25-1998]:

“‘People just notice that Ed is white,’ said Sharpe. ‘That’s all they say — `He’s a white receiver and there aren’t too many white receivers’ — and that’s all they notice. They don’t notice how good he is. Ed’s a great receiver.’

“True, McCaffrey, a product of Allentown Central Catholic High, is a member of a rare breed in the NFL — Wayne Chrebet, Don Beebe, Ricky Proehl, and McCaffrey are among the few white receivers in the league — but Sharpe said only fools focus on the color of McCaffrey’s skin, not his talent.

“‘Ed makes tough catches,’ said Sharpe. ‘And he catches everything; he has great hands.’
“McCaffrey said he doesn’t look upon himself as a ‘white receiver.’

“‘You might ask one person one thing and another person another thing and they might say two different things,’ McCaffrey said. ‘But to me, it doesn’t make any difference. That’s because I don’t see things that way; I’m just down here playing with my teammates and my friends and trying to be the best football player I can be. Once you put on a uniform, it really doesn’t matter a bit what color skin you have.’

“The few white receivers there are generally are stereotyped as ‘possession receivers,’ which are code words for being relatively slow. And relatively slow they are, since few have the speed to make the game-breaking long catch. Still, McCaffrey has a very important role in the Broncos’ passing attack as they prepare to face the Green Bay Packers today in the Super Bowl.

Sound like the way Jordy Nelson was treated last year? Maybe Toby Gerhart or Peyton Hillis? At least those aforementioned white athletes get a chance to play in the Black man’s NFL, most notably at positions dominated by Blacks with loads of swagger, unlike the 2001 Doak Walker Award winner Luke Staley. A white running back from Brigham Young, Staley never got a chance in the NFL. He almost never got the chance to play running back in college. [Pro Football Weekly: 2002 NFL draft and Scouting Combine Q&A with Brigham Young RB Luke Staley, 3-3-2001, Nolan Nawrocki]:

INDIANAPOLIS — Brigham Young RB Luke Staley declared himself eligible for the NFL draft after his junior season, when he rushed for 1,582 yards. His average of 143.8 rushing yards per game was the third-best in NCAA Division I. Injuries plagued his career at BYU, when he had more than nine surgeries on his ankles, knees and shoulders. The most recent injury was a broken fibula, which kept Staley out of the final three games of BYU’s 12-2 season. Staley answered questions about his health, his decision to leave BYU early and how he developed his remarkably sized calves.

Q: What do you bring to the table for NFL teams?

A: I think I bring a little versatility. I think I can adjust to whatever the situation calls for. I think I can go with the flow of the game and be able to change paces.

Q: There aren’t that many top-notch white running backs. Is that something you have dealt with throughout your career?

A: Yeah, I think a big blow was when I came out of high school. Everybody wanted me for defense except for BYU. They are the only school who wanted me as a tailback. And of course, I’m going to jump on that. I committed to them the day after they offered me.

Q: You were a running back all during your time before college. How frustrating was it that schools wanted you to play defense?

A: For me, it wasn’t that frustrating because it has always been a childhood dream of mine to go to BYU. It was an easy decision once they offered me.

Only one school gave him a chance to play offense. One. Despite putting up tremendous numbers in high school and then winning the top award for a college running back, Staley lacked the type of “natural swagger” Luther Campbell brags is solely-owned by Black athlete.

But it’s not just white offensive players that are “blacked-out” from playing positions that we have been ‘conditioned’ to believe are only for superior Black athletes. Jemele Hill, the Black female columnist for ESPN now, once wrote for the lowly Detroit Free Press (if Black people are such great athletes, why can’t they convert that dexterity into maintaining a city — like 90 percent Black Detroit? Never mind…). There, she penned this article on Michigan State – a future NFL player – white safety Eric Smith [Spartans safety defies skeptics and stereotypes, 10-9-2003]:

“He had good speed and size. But there was just one problem with Eric Smith.

“He was white.

“An assistant coach at a Division II school in Ohio told Smith in high school that he didn’t want a white player in the secondary. He wasn’t the first college coach to doubt Smith, who had become accustomed to being called too slow, too small — everything except too good.

“‘He said he’d rather take a black player than me,’ Smith said.

“But it’s interesting how life can work out. The guy who was too slow, too small and er, too white, is the starting strong safety for Michigan State — the only Division I school that offered the 6-foot-1, 196-pound sophomore a scholarship.

“In fact, Smith not only is a starter, he’s a playmaker. Smith, who runs the 40 in 4.6, leads the team in tackles with 49 and was Big Ten player of the week following a 12-tackle, two-sack performance against Notre Dame. He also has seven pass-breakups, which is tied for the team lead, and his 59-yard interception return against Louisiana Tech is the longest by the secondary this season.

“‘People look at me and say, ‘He’s a white guy. He won’t be able to play,’ Smith said. ‘I just like to go out there and prove them wrong.’”

Can’t get much more explicit then this about how college recruiters evaluate white athletes, as compared to those Black players who look like the University of Miami athletes.

And now, all of college football has assimilated to culture of these Black athletes, alumni and coaches fearful of appearing of ‘racist’ and losing the opportunity to recruit these individuals (or having their career ruined by an opposing coach who tells recruits and high school coaches of bigotry and discrimination — especially if they play a white running back or white receiver!).

So white people who make in college football (and those precious few who make it to the NFL) succeed in spite of their debilitating whiteness; Black players succeed because, well, we have been conditioned to believe that in a match-up against a white athlete, the Black player will always be more athletic because of their Blackness.

This is the true legacy of what Feldman calls a ‘Cane Mutiny.

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How about Jamaal Charles-serious knee injury, will be brought back slowly, Peyton Hillis to be getting the early workload. WRONG!

Eric Decker has great pre-season chemistry with Peyton Manning, should see the majority of the looks. WRONG!

Wes Welker’s near record setting season will lead to another banner year for him as the main cog in the Patriots offense. WRONG!

Danny Woodhead parlaying his good play in the Super Bowl into a greater role in the Patriot offense. WRONG!

Lucky for me I picked Luck to be the better of the No.1 and No.2 picked rookie QB’s. Doh!

Fortunately I was able to get Danny Amendola and Brian Hartline for nothing. However when RGIII is putting up better stats than Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, and Drew Brees, you know the season is off to a rough start.

A lot has been said about the “replacement” refs. I’m waiting for Obama to intervene on behalf of another group of union workers. After all he invested $100 billion in the auto industry just to ensure jobs for autoworkers. Can’t he find a few million for capable professional referees? If football is the new national religion of of the country (and it is!) that makes the refs our national priests. Maybe Obama can nationalize the NFL, it’s more important to most people than their health and he nationalized that industry. Plus look how many “democrats” it employs. Unfortunately for the NFL refs, too many White guys, and no women (yet).

AWF game of the week Denver-Houston. Manning and his (fairly) White receiving corps vs. the Texans defense with five White starters, that’s 5, as in five out of eleven. When you consider the average NFL defense does not start any white players, and yet the Texans, one of the best defenses in the NFL, are one pulled muscle by Antonio Smith away of being MAJORITY White on defense, it makes one believe in miracles.

Heck the Houston defense might be Whiter than the BYU defense. You could take the New England offense and combine it with the Houston defense and have the best possible team of NFL players that did not have to have remedial assistance to get through college. There may not have been 10 scholarship athletes total of that group.

In sad news it was announced that Vince Young is now broke. Sixty million dollars –gone. NFL career — gone. Future expenditures of the local law enforcement and prison system of Tennessee — still looking good.

Many were surprised by this development. Nothing in Vince Young’s past could have prepared most people for this news, not the “9″ he scored on the NFL Wonderlic test, not the time he threw his shoulder pads into the stands, not the run-in he had with his coach Jeff Fisher, not the time he “disappeared” and the police had to be called to find him before he did something crazy, not the time….okay I guess it was kinda obvious he was going to go broke eventually. Unfortunately I had the year 2016 in the betting pool.

On the college football scene AWF is NOT angry about the Stanford Indians much more ‘civilization friendly’ line-up defeating the USC Zulu Warriors in a much needed thrashing of one of college footballs most criminal friendly football programs. Is it possible for that Mexifornia football cesspool to disappear from the rankings?

Now will someone please step it up and defeat the Alabama Ebony-tide!

I just received a milk carton with Austin Collie’s picture on it. What ever happened to that poor kid? We might never see him again.

When I think about Robert Griffin III (read about his in this SBPDL Classic: Black Men Can’t Throw), the no. 2 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, the words Joe Biden used to describe Barack Obama comes directly to mind:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Okay, so Robert Griffin III is the second “mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

Griffin (known as RGIII) won the 2012 Heisman Trophy largely due to an aggressive campaign waged by ESPN in promoting the “next Black hope” at the quarterback position. Like Obama, he appears to be a nice, articulate, bright, clean (though he should probably cut the “thug”-like dreads), nice-looking guy” that the primarily white NFL fan-base can cheer on.

At the very least, he won’t get caught raising and fighting pit bulls like Michael Vick.
Somewhere, Rush Limbaugh (with his dead-on criticism of the NFL, Donovan McNabb, and the media’s desire to find a Black quarterback worth praising) is smiling, with the deification of RGIII reaching levels that perfectly validate his deft analysis of the white-guilt a-thon over Black quarterbacks:

The battle between No. 1 draft pick Andrew Luck and the guy who was selected right behind him, Robert Griffin III, hits the field today as the Indianapolis Colts play the Washington Redskins.

But how do the two shape up off the field?

As anyone who has been watching sports TV can tell, RG3 is everywhere. Luck? Not so much.

RG3 struck a nontraditional deal with Castrol Motor Oil for the NFL draft and already had a deal to be on the cover of Electronic Arts’ “NCAA Football 13.”

The Redskins quarterback’s most visible endorsement is Subway, thanks to his presence in the company’s nonstop ads. RG3′s deal is probably as good for him as it is for the company, as there are now more Subways than any other restaurants in the country (yes, more than McDonald’s).

His biggest deal is his contract with adidas, whose strategy is to sign select game-changers because it clearly isn’t in the same business as Nike, which seems to collect players.

RG3 marketing guy Mark Heligman is mum on the actual terms, but sources tell me that the last time adidas struck a rookie deal as large as this one it was with Reggie Bush. Adidas is surely hoping things are different this time around.

One thing adidas has going for it is that when you think RG3, you think socks (he famously wore Superman socks with capes on them to the Heisman ceremony). Although not a huge business, the performance sock category is growing.

RG3 also has a deal with Gatorade. It originally was supposed to be a one-off deal, but I’m told the people at Gatorade were so impressed with him that they signed him to something larger, which allowed the PepsiCo brand to roll out a new TV spot a couple of weeks ago. Some in the industry were caught off guard because Gatorade already has Cam Newton on its endorsement roster.

RG3 also signed a deal with EvoShield, a body armor company. As this niche has grown, companies like EvoShield and its competitor, Unequal, have gone after mobile quarterbacks in RG3 and Michael Vick (Unequal). The growing market allows for these marketable QBs to take deals in exchange for a piece of the company. Of course, the guys have to wear the gear for it to mean anything. Unequal said Vick wasn’t wearing its gear when he got bruised last week.

RG3′s last endorsement signed was with Nissan, which already started using him in magazine ads associated with its Heisman winners campaign.

Overall, marketers have been extremely impressed with Griffin’s poise in satellite interviews (he’s great at remembering brand message points) and in commercial shoots. That’s why he has earned more than any other rookie in NFL history before throwing his first regular-season pass.

Thus far, Griffin is 1-1 as a starter for the Washington Redskins. Based on the investment corporations have made in RG3, it should be obvious that a combination of Joe Biden’s accurate description of Barack Obama (finally, a clean Black guy!) and Rush Limbaugh’s even more accurate description of the Black quarterbacks (“Sorry to say this, I don’t think he’s been that good from the get-go,” Limbaugh said. “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team.”) is transpiring.

To quote Biden, the RG3 story is truly:”I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

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