The sad news that Alex Karras is deathly ill brought to mind the fact that he, along with so many other deserving white players, is not in the HOF.
I looked up the members of the NFL's All Decade Team for the 1960s, and was shocked at the number of white players there who aren't in the HOF. Meanwhile, the only black player on that team who isn't in the Hall is Dave Robinson. EVERY other black player is in the HOF.
Jock sniffing "journalists" and DWFs alike would scoff if you mentioned these white stars as potential HOFers: RB John David Crow, WRs Del Shofner, Gary Collins and Boyd Dowler, OT Ralph Neely and Gs Jerry Kramer and Howard Mudd, DT Alex Karras, LBs Larry Morris and Tommy Nobis, CB Bobby Boyd and S Eddie Meador. All of these white players are on the All Decade Team for the 1960s.
Being named to an all Decade Team would seem to indicate one was a great player, and a sure fire candidate for the Hall of Fame. And for every black player on that team but one, it was a sure fire ticket to the Hall. Yet 12 white players from that team have been denied induction. Could there be a more glaring example of the way history is written by the victors (in this case, the cultural marxists) than this?
Even the makeup of the team, at that time, clearly favored blacks. Why was John Mackey, for instance, selected as the TE over Mike Ditka, Jerry Smith or Jackie Smith? Check their stats- each of them blew Mackey's incredibly anemic totals away. Even I was fooled by the "Mackey is the greatest TE" propaganda, until I looked at what he actually accomplished during his career.
There were plenty of white LBs more deserving of inclusion on this team than Dave Robinson. And plenty of white OTs more deserving than Bob Brown. A curious fact to ponder is that 3 of the 4 WRs on this team were white. And yet none of them is in the HOF; only the lone black, Charley Taylor, is. Could it be any more blatant than that?
While I have disagreements with some of the selections to this team, still whites are well represented. The problem is that some of them (Crow, Boyd, Dowler, Mudd, Neely, Morris, Meador, Shofner) are generally forgotten and virtually no "journalist" would consider them great in any way, shape or form today. But since they were selected to a team, using a process that clearly already was more likely to favor blacks over whites, doesn't that say something about how the history of even something as frivolous as professional sports can be distorted and controlled?
As this example reveals, there is more affirmative action and shame than worthiness and fame in today's Hall.
I looked up the members of the NFL's All Decade Team for the 1960s, and was shocked at the number of white players there who aren't in the HOF. Meanwhile, the only black player on that team who isn't in the Hall is Dave Robinson. EVERY other black player is in the HOF.
Jock sniffing "journalists" and DWFs alike would scoff if you mentioned these white stars as potential HOFers: RB John David Crow, WRs Del Shofner, Gary Collins and Boyd Dowler, OT Ralph Neely and Gs Jerry Kramer and Howard Mudd, DT Alex Karras, LBs Larry Morris and Tommy Nobis, CB Bobby Boyd and S Eddie Meador. All of these white players are on the All Decade Team for the 1960s.
Being named to an all Decade Team would seem to indicate one was a great player, and a sure fire candidate for the Hall of Fame. And for every black player on that team but one, it was a sure fire ticket to the Hall. Yet 12 white players from that team have been denied induction. Could there be a more glaring example of the way history is written by the victors (in this case, the cultural marxists) than this?
Even the makeup of the team, at that time, clearly favored blacks. Why was John Mackey, for instance, selected as the TE over Mike Ditka, Jerry Smith or Jackie Smith? Check their stats- each of them blew Mackey's incredibly anemic totals away. Even I was fooled by the "Mackey is the greatest TE" propaganda, until I looked at what he actually accomplished during his career.
There were plenty of white LBs more deserving of inclusion on this team than Dave Robinson. And plenty of white OTs more deserving than Bob Brown. A curious fact to ponder is that 3 of the 4 WRs on this team were white. And yet none of them is in the HOF; only the lone black, Charley Taylor, is. Could it be any more blatant than that?
While I have disagreements with some of the selections to this team, still whites are well represented. The problem is that some of them (Crow, Boyd, Dowler, Mudd, Neely, Morris, Meador, Shofner) are generally forgotten and virtually no "journalist" would consider them great in any way, shape or form today. But since they were selected to a team, using a process that clearly already was more likely to favor blacks over whites, doesn't that say something about how the history of even something as frivolous as professional sports can be distorted and controlled?
As this example reveals, there is more affirmative action and shame than worthiness and fame in today's Hall.
